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[l)ossiI)ly B. Weidcmcyeri] (Say), St. Cloud, Minn. (Ilulst), Iowa 

 (Chicago Mu8.), both ends of Lake Superior (Hulst), and its northern 

 shore (Agassiz, Fletcher, Mus. Mich. Univ)., Kacine, Wis., " rather rare" 

 (Iloy), "common" (Kirtland), northern Illinois ( Worthington, Chic. 

 Mus.), northern ^Michigan (Cook), Kalamazoo, Mich., " not common '' 

 ((xibbs) ; Poland "in two or three instances" and Cleveland, O., "among the 

 most rare species" (Kirtland) , Monroe and Pike Counties, Penn. (Conradi) , 

 and in New York, not only in the Adirondacks (Hill), and Catskills 

 (Mead, Edwards), but also at Lima (Mark), Rochester (Bunker), 

 Auburn (Parker), Pottsdara "very scarce," Albany and Scoharie Counties 

 (Lintner), and Nichols (Howell). Very many of these localities are 

 drawn from Edwards's careful account of this butterfly. 



In New England it has not been taken south of Massachusetts and but 

 rarely in that State. It is not uncommon among the Berkshire Hills at 

 Williamstown (Scudder), and it has been taken sparingly at Deei-field 

 (F. H. S])rague), among the hills between Amherst and South Hadley 

 (Dimmock, Stearns, F. H. Sprague, Goodell, Marsh), at Belchertown 

 (Dimmock), Holyoke (Emery), and Templeton (Partridge). It has 

 occasionally been found about Boston, especially at Dorchester (Clapp, 

 P. S. Sprague), Maiden and Wollaston (F. H. Sprague), and even at 

 Walpole (Miss Guild). It is already common at Factory Point (Roberts), 

 and Brattleboro, Vt. (Higginson) ; at Walpole (Smith), Weare (Emery), 

 Suncook (Thaxter), and Dublin, N. H. (Faxon, Leonard), but is " scarce" 

 in Milfordnear the latter place (Whitney), and is even considered " not 

 abundant" at Portland, Me. (Lyman). In the White Mountain region, 

 and in northern New England generally, it is exceedingly abundant, far 

 more so than the other species of the genus in their most favorable locali- 

 ties. Indeed the matrons of farm-houses in the valley of the Peabody 

 River complain of the insects entering the kitchens in such numbers as 

 to be a very nuisance ; one of them, Mrs. Dolly Copp, of "Imp Cottage" 

 (well-known to many old frequenters of the Glen), relates how she has 

 taken more than fifty on the inside of her windows in a single morning ; 

 and "Mr. Hill saw, on one occasion in the Adirondacks, a log closely 

 packed with arthemis, standing side by side." 



Haunts and abundance. This butterfly frequents the shady roads 

 tlu-ough the forests of northern New Hampshire, especially where they are 

 hilly ; or it may be found equally about the margin of woods. Dr. Harris 

 has remarked that it is particularly addicted to the flowers of Eupatorium 

 ageratoides L. in open places in the White jNlountain valleys. 



Almost any opening in the deep woods will be frequented by it, espec- 

 ially if there be excrementitious matter or canq) refuse about. Reference 

 has already been made above to its abiuidance, to which may be added the 

 following (piotation from the Canadian experience of D"Url>an : — 



