764 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



val and Le Conte's work on North American butterflies, under the name 

 of Libythea motya, and it is the West Indian species, Hypatus terena 

 (Godart), the occurrence of which in the United States is unknown ; the 

 caterpillar and chrysalis, however, are from Abbot's drawings, and repre- 

 sent our common species. H. bachmanii was also in Boisduval's collec- 

 tion, separated from the other, but without name. 



Distribution (21: 8). Properly speaking, this butterfly appears to be 

 a member of the Carolinian fauna, although it has been found occasionally 

 (and sometimes in great numbers) in the Alleghanian fauna. The localities 

 from which it is recorded are so distant and extend over so wide a terri- 

 tory that one may reasonably suppose it to be local in its distribution ; the 

 more so, since it seems to be very variable in its appearance ; "once com- 

 mon, now rather rare," says Dr. Hoy of Racine, Wise. ; "rare formerly, but 

 common in 1875," according to Professor Snow of Kansas. Southwardly it 

 is found in the Gulf States, — Apalachicola, Florida (Chapman), Alabama 

 (Gosse, Grote), central and southern Texas (Belfrage, Aaron) ; west of 

 the Appalachian chain it occurs in both northern and southern Ohio (Kirt- 

 land and British Museum), in northern and southern Illinois (Worthing- 

 ton, Walsh), in eastern Kansas (Snow), and even in Virginia (Doll). It 

 has been observed in several of the Atlantic states, — Georgia "rare" 

 (Abbot), West Virginia, a few individuals every season (Edwards), 

 southern Maryland (Uhler), Philadelphia, Pa., "rare" (Blake), Hobo- 

 ken, N. J., one specimen (Andrews) and Long Island, N. Y., once 

 taken (Grote) ; and to the north, besides the New England localities, it 

 is recorded in one or two instances from the warmer parts of Ontario, as 

 Port Stanley (Denton), Hamilton (Miss Mills). 



Dr. T. W. Harris wrote to Dr. Kirtland many years ago : "I took [it] 

 in my little garden on the 24th of June, 1849, the only specimen I have 

 seen here" at Cambridge, and to this day this is the only specimen known 

 from Massachusetts. It is also reported to have been once taken at New 

 Haven, Conn. : but still more extraordinary are two specimens noticed by 

 Mr. F. G. Sanborn in the collection of Dr. F. F. Hodgman of Littleton, 

 N. H., to the north of the White Mountains, which were captured in that 

 vicinity in roads through the woods. It may, therefore, be looked on as 

 a possible inhabitant of almost any part of New England, though of 

 excessive rarity. 



Haunts. In Alabama, according to Grote, it is found on river banks 

 and about damp places on roads ; and Walsh wrote Edwards that he found 

 it "in swarms along the travelled road" in Jonesborough, 111. Dr. Hoy 

 told Dr. Kirtland that when the common raspberry was in flower it was a 

 common resort of the butterfly at Racine, so that the buttei-fly may be set 

 down as a probable frequenter of roadsides. Abbot, however, says that 

 they frequent blossoms in fields adjoining swamps ; and Wallace reports 

 the Amazonian species as "flying about marshy meadows in the sunshine." 



