] 150 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



northei'ii half of the Carolinian faunas, from the Atlantic to the southern 

 Mississippi valley. It has been found in nearly or quite all the Atlantic 

 States, from Connecticut to Georgia ; the southernmost localities from 

 which it is reported are Savannah, Ga., "rare'' (Abbot), Kanawha Co., 

 \\'. Va. (Edwards), and central Texas at Dallas (Boll), and by the 

 Mexican border (Aaron). West of the Atlantic and north of the Gulf 

 district it has been found only in Illinois (Doubleday, British Museum, 

 Worthington), and in Ohio at Cincinnati, where it is very rare (Dury). 

 The northernmost localities where it has been found outside of New Eng- 

 land are Newburgh, N. Y., a few specimens only (Edwards). 



Boisduval reports it as found about Boston, Init this was undoubtedly by 

 error. For in New England it has been taken only in Connecticut at 

 Greenwich, "common" (Alcott), New Haven (Smith, Harger), New 

 Britain (Hulbert, Scudder), Farmington (Norton), and the tops of the 

 Meriden Hills "abundant" (Smith). It has also been seen upon similar 

 trap hills in the vicinity of Holyoke, Mass. (Waters). 



Haunts. Edwai'ds says that in W^est Virginia it is to be found in cul- 

 tivated grounds, gardens and meadows ; and A:iron that in Texas it oc- 

 cvirs on the prairies ; but these, I think, must be accidental occurrences. 

 Abbot says that in Georgia it is found in dark woods. Boll found it in low 

 and open timbered land along bottoms in Texas ; and at New Britain, 

 Conn., the onlv place where I have met with the butterfly, it frequents the 

 thinly wooded crests of the trap-ridges in the range south of the town, and 

 though found only in the woods, seems to linger a little in the more open 

 spaces where a bit of sunshine falls upon the ground. When alarmed it 

 invariably flew down the slope into a ravine, the opposite side of which 

 was wooded, never down the equally wooded slope which ended in the 

 open country. Mr. Hulbert, the resident entomologist, has but once 

 found it in the open fields. Moreover, Mr. Schonborn, a Washington cor- 

 respondent of Mr. Edwards, says he never found the caterpillar in open 

 fields but always "on isolated plants growing in places sparingly covered 

 by large oaks, hickories, cedars, and other trees. So that we must look 

 upon this butterfly as properly an inhabitant of open woods. 



Oviposition. The eggs, according to Eldwards, are laid upon the 

 flower stalks of the food plant, and Schonborn of Washington, he says, 

 has never found more than one on a plant. The only eggs I found were 

 three upon one plant, laid both on the stem and leaves, but as some 

 hatched in two, and others in three days after finding them, they were 

 doubtless laid at difl^erent times, and not another plant of the same kind 

 could be found in the neighborhood ; in another instance a butterfly con- 

 fined on shcpard's purse on May 15 laid an egg by the IJSth at latest, 

 whi<!h did not hatch until noon of the 23d — at least five, and perhajis 

 eight days. According to Edwards, they hatch in four days. 



