1560 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Egg (66 : 22, 25). Surface smooth, glistening, broken up by shallow, narrow, in- 

 dented lines into polygonal, generally somewhat lozenge-shaped cells, from .017 mm. 

 to .021mm. in diameter, and dotted profn.sely with minute punctuations; niicropyle 

 rosette (69:8) .1 mm. in diameter, the cells varying from .013 mm. to .021 mm. in 

 size. Color when tlrst laid bright shining yellow ; in two days streaks and irregular 

 ragged patches of deep orange-red, connected in a band around the egg, half way up, 

 indicate the changes occurring within. Height, .30 mm. ; breadth, .7 mm. 



Caterpillar. First stage (73:4). Head (80:51) black, shining; surface very 

 minutely shagreened with a few delicate, whitish hairs, .04 mm. long; antennae fus- 

 cous ; ocelli black ; mouth parts apparently black. Body pale yellow, tinged anteriorly 

 and posteriorly with pale reddish brown ; dorsal thoracic shield black ; dermal append- 

 ages long, straight, tapering, blackish fuscous, 04 mm. long, seated on minute papil- 

 lae, those of the subdorsal I'ows .08 mm. apart on the same segment; at the anterior 

 base of those of the second and third thoracic segments is a small, colorless papilla; 

 on the terminal segment there are two subdoi'sal, recumbent, recurved bristles, .1 mm. 

 long, directed also inward so as to cross ; just anterior to these is another similar 

 but shoi'ter pair; and around the hinder margin of the anal plate four straight bristles, 

 directed backward, with a similar one on each side of the hinder end of the penultimate 

 segment; they are from .065 mm. to .085 mm. long, the outer ones of the anal plate 

 being the longest; spiracles concolorous ; legs yellowish, somewhat infuscated; pro- 

 legs yellowish. Length, 1.3 mm. ; breadth of body, .24 mm. ; of head, .35 mm. ; dorsal 

 thoracic shield not more than .03 mm. in length. 



Second staffe. Head dark castaneous brown, nearly black, with a few very short and 

 very delicate, scattered pale hairs; triangle paler; ocelli dusky pellucid surrounded by a 

 black field. Body pale greenish yellow; dorsal thoracic shield brownish fuscous ; 

 minute blackish fuscous papillae regularly scattered all over the body, each giving rise 

 to a short, delicate hair, .04 mm. long; legs and prolegs p.ale yellowish. Breadth of 

 head, .52 mm. 



Chrysalis. Reddish ashy color, minutely sprinkled with brown dots (Harris) ; the 

 terminal segments of the abdomen (all that remain of the Harris specimen) are dark 

 luteo-testaceons, the tubercles blackish fuscous, the bristles of the same color; the 

 sides of the creraaster, as of the preanal button, especially the latter, deeply channeled, 

 the whole inferior surface of the cremaster longitudinally combed ; the surface of the 

 abdominal segments with weak and fine transverse ridges. 



Distribution (29:4). This butterfly apparently occurs throughout the 

 whole extent of the Carolinian and Alleghanian faunas ; in the former it 

 extends from eastern Florida (Brit. Mus.) northward through Georgia 

 "not very common" (Abbot) and South Carolina, abundant on the sea 

 coast (Scudder) , and westward to Texas, Dallas ( Boll) , Collette River, mod- 

 erately common (Aaron), although at Demopolis, Ala., Mr. Grote has "seen 

 but one specimen." Mabille even gives it from Brazil ! In tlie Al- 

 leghanian fauna it has been frequently found in the west and as far as 

 eastern Kansas, not common (Snow), Ames, Iowa (Osborn) and Wiscon- 

 sin, numerous (Hoy), and its northern limit is indicated by the following 

 stations : St. Catherines, Ontario (Saunders), Canada West (Brit. Mus.), 

 Kockport, Ohio (Kirtland) and southern Michigan "common" (Harring- 

 ton). In New York it has been found about Albany and Bethlehem, in 

 the former place abundantly (Lintner), and in the Province of Quebec at 

 ShefFord (Fyles). 



In New England it is abundant south of the northern boundary of Mass- 



