822 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



where laeta alighted at my very feet. Althougli it was the first time I had 

 seen this charming object alive, I instantly recognized it ; in another second 

 my net was over it and I shouted triumphantly : — 



How have, I say, mine eyes been blessed made 



By looking on thee in the living daj'. 

 Life history. It is apparently double brooded, for the dates of ea[)ture 

 appear to be too far apart, considering the freshness of the late specimens, 

 to suppose them all to belong to one brood. The first brood appears in 

 the nortli early in May ; Mr. Saunders's specimens were taken in Ontario 

 May iO and -22, Professor Fernald's at Orono May 18, and Mr. Ed- 

 ward's specimens in West Virginia, April 17 and very early in ]\Iay. My 

 specimen from Williamstown, a female and in excellent condition, was 

 taken June 30, Mr. Aaron's from Xew Jersey, July 1, and Professor 

 Smith's at Norway, on July 22, the last also in very good condition, and 

 certainly not at all rubbed. T\\>' second brood must, therefore, appear late 

 in June and in July, and the early appearance of the first brood indicates 

 that the insect probably hibernates in the chrysalis state. 



As to the haunts of this insect, all (unless the New Jersey specimen, 

 and pei'haps the London, be exceptions) seem to have been taken in 

 mountainous regions. Mr. Saunders took his specimen in a wood ; Mr. 

 Edwards one of his at the bottom of a freshly dug j)ost hole near a hop 

 vine. Mine was taken on a road into a mountain ravine, just before it 

 entered the woods from partially cleared ground. 



Desiderata. Manifestly we know so little about this insect that every 

 fact about it is desirable; first of all, as a guide to the rest, the food 

 plant of the larva and the number of broods annually. I did not hesitate 

 to sacrifice my specimen to obtain eggs, and placed the creature over wild 

 cherry, where she lived many days without laying, though her abdomen 

 was full of eggs. The distribution and haunts of the insect make it 

 probable that it will be discovered in a line across the country not far 

 from our boundary with Canada, and in the Cordillera region north of 

 Ai'izona. 



LIST OF ILLUSTBATIONS.-EBOBA LAETA. 



General. PI. 14, fig. 9. Female, Ijoth surfaces. 



PI. 23, fig. 2. Distril)utiou in North America. 39 : 17. Neuration. 



Egg. 55:2. Side view witli head and appen- 



Pl.Oo, fig. 8. Plain. dages enlarged, and details of the 



jiniifiQ structure of the legs in the fe- 



Pl. U, fig. U. Male, upi)er surface. '"''''^- 



