1340 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



(Saunders), Ridgway, Wclland Co. (Moffatt), and even Toronto (Saun- 

 ders). On the opposite shore of the hike it was recorded from Ohio by 

 Kirtland many years ago and is still found there. In New York it has 

 swarmed at Rochester ( Bunker) and is recorded from Brockport by Bruce 

 and at Poughkeepsie and Rheinbeck by Dwight and DeGarmo. The most 

 extraordinaiy occurrence of all in the east is that of at least four speci- 

 mens taken or seen by Mr. Jack at Chateaugay, about thirty miles west 

 of south from Montreal. In the vicinity of Philadelphia it has been taken 

 rarely (Blake) and is recorded from the neighborhood of New York from 

 Morris Plain, N. J. (Neumoegen), Staten Island (Davis), and Rye, 

 West Chester Co., N. Y. (Van Wagenen). 



These last localities would be sufficient warrant for including it among 

 the butterflies of New England, but it has strangely extended far to the 

 eastward along the coast. Apparently it became domesticated in south- 

 western New England about 1875, for in 1874, as above noted, it was found 

 by Van Wagenen in West Chester Co., N. Y. (where it has remained 

 ever since), and a specimen was taken in New Haven, Conn., by F. S. 

 Smith in the summer of 1875 (Verrill). In 1877 it appeared in Fairfield 

 Co. (Peck), and in that and succeeding years at Berlin, Conn. (Cole- 

 man). In 1880 it established itself permanently in Poughkeepsie on the 

 Hudson (Dwight) and probably in a considerable part of the southern 

 coast of New England ; for in 1882 it made further excursions, this being 

 the year when it was taken by Jack at Chateaugay, doubtless specimens 

 which had followed northward up the Hudson-Champlain valley; while 

 Massachusetts was invaded by way of the Connecticut and the sea-coast, 

 Goodell capturing specimens at Amherst in the latter part of July, and 

 Brackett seeing or capturing three specimens in Boston Highlands between 

 Jvme 24 and July 15. That they obtained a foothold in this section, if 

 only a temporary one, is proved by the capture of five specimens in 

 August, 1883, at Worcester (Sanborn), of others at Sharon (Brackett), 

 and by the discovery of caterpillars on trees in the Botanic Gardens at 

 Cambridge at the same time (Seagrave). Specimens of the butterfly 

 were also taken by others in Cambridge and Newton. Since then, there is 

 no report of its appearance north of the southern seaboard of New 

 England and the Hudson valley, excepting the singular statement of no less 

 an authority than Mr. Henry Edwards, who writes me that in August, 

 1886, he saw a worn specimen on the wing at Eastport, Me., and another 

 near Augusta while going from Portland to St. John, N. B.* He adds : 

 "I could not by any possibility be mistaken in the species. I could have 

 caught the one at Eastport." 



Haunts. According to Doubleday it flies "in the pathways of the 



• The reported occurrence of this species in of mistalieu tleterniinatiou, as I am informed 

 New Brunswick (Can. nat., xi: 239) was a case by Mrs. Heustis herself. 



