1()2() THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Chrysalis (84: 45, 40). Beneath pallid greeu, flecked with minute brown dots on 

 the wings, lejrs and tongue, but not on the antennae, and hardly at all on the abdomen, 

 excepting laterally. Head and prothorax pallid, the former flecked with blackish, and 

 the latter with many brownish flecks next the posterior margin ; rest of thorax dark 

 greeuisli brown above, irregularly blotched and flecked with cream yellow, most con- 

 spicuously at the summit and down the interior base of tlie wings ; rest of wings pal- 

 lid green ininntely flecked with brown. Abdomen also dark greenish brown, the first 

 two segments darker than the rest and deepening to black laterally next the wings, 

 tlie whole irregularly flecked above with cream yellow, giving a minutely mottled ap- 

 pearance, and at the sides of the globose portion and on the top of the expanding tip 

 predominating ; particularly the lower half of the sides of the fourth abdominal seg- 

 ment arc almost wholly cream yellow, and those of the sixth and seventh heavily 

 blotched with piceous. There is a lateral series of short, oblique black bars in the 

 middle of the second to seventh abdominal segments, and the tubercles and the 

 median carina are all tipped with brownish yellow-. Surface of body rather coarsely 

 and distantly punctate, with scattered, pellucid, clubbed hairs arising in large measure 

 from the centre of the pits, and but little longer than their widths. Spiracles testa- 

 ceous. Length, 8.5 mm. ; breadth of middle of thorax, 3.G5 mm. ; of widest part 

 of abdomen, 4.75 mm. ; of tip of abdomen, 2.5 mm. ; height of thorax, 3.6 mm. ; of 

 abdomen, 4.2 ram. ; length of hairs, .04 mm. 



Geographical distribution (25: 4). The latitudinal distribution of 

 this butterrty is greater than that of any other of the American Chrysopha- 

 nidi, since it is found from beyond the limits of the Alleghanian fauna on 

 the north, to the extreme southern boundaries of the Carolinian fauna. 

 Its longitudinal spread appears, however, to be far less extended ; it is 

 found everywhere east of the Alleghanies, but until recent years it was 

 hardly known west of them. To the north, it reaches Ashbourne, Hali- 

 fax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia "very rare" (Jones, Brit. Mus., Kedman), 

 Island of Orleans (Bowles), Stanbridge and Cowanville, P. Q. (Fyles), 

 Ottawa "not very rai'e" (Fletcher), Toronto (Morris, Bethune), Stony 

 Lake (Saunders) and even Sudbury, Ont. (Scudder). The soutliernmost 

 localities from which it is known are Fernandina, Fla. (Scudder) and 

 Shreveport, La. (Johnson) : the westernmost are more vaguely stated 

 excepting that Snow speaks of it as exceedingly rare in eastern Kansas ; 

 but it is credited also to Texas, the Mississippi valley, and the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



In New England it has been taken in Aroostook Co. (Packard), Brown- 

 field (Haley), Orono (Fernald) and Norway, Me. (Smith) ; Berlin Falls 

 (Treat, Whitney, Scudder), Fabyans and the Glen, White Mountains 

 (Scudder), Thornton and Waterville (Faxon, Minot) and Manchester, 

 N. II. (Emery) ; Stowe, Vt. (Miss Soule) ; the Connecticut valley, Mass. 

 (Emery, Dimmock, Scudder, Sprague) ; and Plantsville (Shcpard) and 

 New Haven, Conn. (Yale Coll. Mus.). It has been taken in the Adi- 

 Vondacks to a height of 1240' above the sea (Keene Valley, Graef). 



Haunts. It is found only in the neighborhood of water where alder 

 grows, and is most frequently seen where roads cross some little alder- 

 lined stream, or are carried by an embankment over marshy ground 



