1634 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



records a capture in Georgia, May 15, Aaron says it is found in southern 

 Texas in August, Palmer brought poor specimens from St. Johns 

 River, Florida, taken August 18-19, Grote found fresh specimens in Ala- 

 bama in the middle of September and Dr. Oemler sent me fresh specimens 

 of both sexes from Wilmington Island, Georgia, taken the last of October 

 and the middle of November. Perhaps then it winters as a butterfly and 

 has tvro broods, one in the middle of May, and a larger one in the latter 

 part of the year, or perhaps there are two at this season, one early in 

 August and one toward the end of September. 



Abbot states that the caterpillar feeds upon crabgrass, Panicum sangui- 

 nale Linn. 



Desiderata. Until the history of this butterfly is known with some 

 degree of precision and we have accurate accounts of its earlier stages, 

 every fact is desirable. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.— HYLEFHILA PHYLAEUS. 



'Tis the shadiest place when the blazing sun flings 

 His straight rays on the rose and the butterfly's wings. 

 Eliza Cook. — The Room of the Household. 



Imago (58 : 8 ; 59 : 8). Head large, heavily clothed with moderately long hairs ar- 

 ranged in transverse masses ; outside of the antennae, a spreading, appressed bunch 

 of arcuate bristles, extending about one-third way around the eye. Front protuberant 

 and tumid, wholly surpassing the front of the eyes, most tumid just below the middle 

 and in the middle of each lateral half, sloping olT gradually on all sides; a very slight 

 median longitudinal sulcation; the whole piece is considerably more than twice as 

 broad as long, and the front border, which is marginate, is sometimes slightly excised 

 in the middle and broadly rounded on either side, terminating at the outer front of 

 the antennae; it is separated from the vertex by a distinct but shallow, straight sulca- 

 tion, whicli strikes the antennae just in advance of the middle of their bases. Vertex 

 slightly arched longitudinally, and almost wholly flat transversely, just reaching or 

 scarcely surpassing the level of the eyes in the anterior higher half, of the same length 

 as the front, and separated from the occiput by two slightly arcu.ate, scarcely im- 

 pressed lines, inclining a little so as to form in the middle a very broad angle. Eyes 

 large, pretty full, nearly circular, naked. Antennae inserted in the middle of the sum- 

 mit, their interior edges separated by three times the diameter of the basal joints, the 



