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tliere is also a stiu;inatal anterior series, and the spiracles are black l)roa(lly bordered 

 with l)lackish fuscous; the spots al)out the spiracles, especially the posterior ones, are 

 often continent. The tubercles are also edged anteriorly with a straijjjlit, transverse 

 dash of black ; and all these anterior and central markings l)ecome confluent to a 

 greater or less extent on the second to fourtli segments, forming a ti'ansverse bana 

 like a "grecian Ixinlcr." Cremastt'r dull liitsous heavily bordered with black, and 

 the whole ventral portion of the sixth to eighth segments heavily infuscated. Length, 

 IS mm. ; breadth at ocellar prominences, 4.2.5 ram ; at basal wing prominences, mm. ; 

 at superior wing prominences, c, mm. 



Distribution (21 : 3). Thi.s butterfly occurs throughout and also beyond 

 the Carolinian fauna : to the south it is found abiuidantly in all the Gulf 

 states and is said to be found along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and 

 Caribbean Sea, through Mexico and as far as Honduras (Reakirt) and 

 Guatemala (Bates). It may be doubted whether it has not here been 

 mistaken for one of the very nearly allied species. I have myself seen it 

 from as far as San Luis, Mexico (Palmer), and Aaron and Lintner l)oth 

 report it from the Mexican border. Westward it reaches the Rocky 

 Mountain region and the mountains of Arizona (]Mead, Edwards). It is 

 abundant in Colorado where it has been taken in various places by ]Mead, 

 Putnam, Packard, Snow and myself. It is found in New Mexico (Snow) 

 and Utah, American Fork Canon (Scudder) ; Carpenter reports it from 

 Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, Edwards from the Big Horn ISIountains ; and 

 north of our border it has been taken at Calgary and the Goose Lake 

 region by Geddes and at Moose Mountain by Miss Pierce. It has been 

 reported from California, but probably by mistake for E. hegesia. It is 

 very rare in the northern half of the United States, but has been reported 

 from Pennsylvania, New York (Long Island), New Jersey, Ohio, northern 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, and has even been taken in 

 single examples at Cleveland, Ohio (Kirkpatrick) , St. Catherines (Beadle) , 

 and near London, Ontario (Denton), and at Chateauguay near Montreal 

 (Jack) . 



In New England it is therefore naturally a very rare insect, but it has 

 been taken repeatedly in eastera Massachusetts ; the only instances known 

 to me are the following: Amherst (Parker), Leominster (Shurtleff), 

 Chelsea (P. S. Sprague), Newburyport, several specimens in 1883 (Hay- 

 ward, May nard). Maiden, four specimens in 1883 (F. H. Sprague), 

 Wollaston (Mason), and Cambridge (Folsom). The northernmost local- 

 ities in New England are Kittery (R. Thaxter) and near Portland, Maine 

 (Lyman). It has never been taken in New Hampshire as stated acci- 

 dentally by French ; probal)ly New England was intended. 



Food and habits of the caterpillar. The caterpillar feeds on vari- 

 ous polypetalous plants, having been recorded by Abbot on one of the 

 Berberidaceae (Podophyllum peltatum Linn., — the mandrake or May 

 apple) and on one of the Passiiioraceae (PassiHora incarnata Linn., — the 



