LYCAKNINAE: INCISAI.IA IKLS. 839 



coiiinioii." Mr. Atkiiifiuii also brouglit it from Soiitli Carolina. The 

 iiortlR'niniost locality oiitsido of New Kiijrland in wliiili it lias been taken 

 is Albany, N. Y. (Lintnor, Peek), where it is extremely abundant, and 

 Kaeine. AVise. (Hoy), where it is rare ; it does not seem to have been found 

 abundantly inland, oecurrinj^ mainly in tlie Coast states, but, besides the 

 Wiseonsin locality, it is reported from Illinois ( Worthington) and eastern 

 Kansas rare (Snow). But besides this, a variety, inossii, has been found 

 oil V.un'itiiver Isl.iud. wlut'h perhaps is tiie form reported by Rev. 

 Mr. Holland as found at Canniore on the Canadian Pacific li. \{. west of 

 Calj^ary. These localities are \t'ry far removed from its ])resumed home. 



In New Kngland, it is a rare insect, except in the most southerly por- 

 tions. It has been taken, however, as far north as Norway, Me. (Smith) 

 and is reported by Messrs. Grote and Robinson from the same state, as well 

 as by Professor Fernald who found it common at Orono. In New Hamp- 

 shire it has been found at ^Nlilford "scarce" (Whitney) ; in Massachusetts 

 at Springfield (Emery), Xcedham (AVhitney), "Walpole (Guild), Mid- 

 dleboro, not infrequent (Hambly), at Turkey Hill and Maiden (F. H. 

 Sprague), and on Nantucket (Scudder) ; in Rhode Island ]\Ir. Hambly 

 found it at Portsmouth and in Connecticut it is reported from Norwich 

 (Scudder) and New Haven (Smith — Mus. Yale Coll.). 



Oviposition. Edwards tells us that the egg "is laid at the base of a 

 flower stem of wild plum." Fifteen were obtained by him from an enclosed 

 female, and they were laid in a bunch, all but one at the base on the upper 

 side. Probably in nature they would have been scattered on different 

 flower stalks and not clustered. They are evidently laid, Edwards re- 

 marks, "just at the right season for the caterpillars to seize the newly 

 found plums. A little too early or a little two late might be fatal," the 

 plums in this instance being "but just from the blossom and tender enough 

 for so minute a caterpillar." 



Food of caterpillar. Abbot states that the caterpillar feeds on the 

 "swamp huckleberry" — probably, says Dr. Chapman, Vaccinium corym- 

 bosum Linn. Abbot also gives as its food plants Leucothoe racemosa, 

 Cyrilla racemifolia and holly. I imprisoned six ripe females on a budding 

 Leucothoe racemosa for two weeks with no result and yet in two instances 

 I have known eggs to be laid by females shut up in chip boxes. Mr. 

 Lintner once raised eight or ten butterflies from the larva, taken he thinks 

 on Lupinus perennis, but with the loss of his notes about them he is not 

 confident. Edwards tried enclosing females on Vaccinium and Quercus 

 with no result, liut at last met with complete success with wild plum, this 

 being suggested to him by his once finding an unknown lycaenid larva on 

 a plum he had plucked. The caterpillars were fed to maturity on wild 

 plums, which they preferred to damsons. It is interesting in this con- 

 nection to notice that Abbot states ttiat the species "frequents the blossoms 



