1770 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



on the profile ; the punctures vary iu number but are usually about ten or eleven in a 

 cell. Diameter of egg, 1.08 mm. 



Caterpillar. Last stage (77 : 3G). Head white, edged posteriorly with black, the 

 sides of the front with an oblique black streak and the frontal suture red. Body pale 

 green, apparently with a hoary bloom, with a dusky dorsal line, and laterodorsal, su- 

 prastigraatal and inf rastigmatal dark green stripes ; dorsal thoracic shield black ; tho- 

 racic legs black. Length, 37 mm. (According to Abbot and Smith). 



Another description. Head rather small, oblique, oval, flattened frontally, white 

 with a black band around top and sides, a black streak down middle of face and a short 

 black streak on either side of this last, and not reaching the band at top. Thoracic 

 shield black. Body slender, nearly white, but under the lens mottled and dotted with 

 darker lines and points, the rings on the posterior half of each segment more promi- 

 nent and less dotted. Length, 34 mm. (After Chapman.) 



Chrysalis (85 : 46). Pale green, incisures of abdomen, edges of wings and tongue 

 pale pink. Length from tip of tubercle to end of cremaster, 28 mm. ; length of tubercle, 

 3 mm. ; of cremaster, 1.75 mm. ; of tongue beyond end of wings, 10 mm. ; height of 

 thorax, 5.5 mm. (According to Abbot and Smith). 



"Slender, smooth, white, the head case tapering into a slender pointed beak." 

 (Chapman). 



Distribution (32 :7) . This butterfly is a member of the Carolinian fauna 

 but has been reported so far only along the coast, excepting in a single 

 instance, French reporting it to be found in southern Illinois. It ex- 

 tends beyond our southern borders, having been taken by Palmer at San 

 Luis, Hacienda da Bledos and Saltillo, Mexico ; along the Gulf coast it 

 has been found in Louisiana, Demopolis, Ala. (Grote) and Florida 

 where it extends to the Keys (Palmer). It follows the Atlantic coast far 

 northward, having been taken at Indian River, Florida ( Wittfeld) , Wil- 

 mington Island (Oemler), and other parts of Georgia (Grote and Robin- 

 son) and North Carolinia (Edwards), eastern Pennsylvania (French) and 

 Atlantic City, N. J. (Aaron). 



It has been repeatedly taken in southern New England in Farmington 

 (Norton), Guilford (Mus. Yale College) and New Haven, Conn. (Smith), 

 and has even been found in Massachusetts. 



Food plant. Abbot and Smith figure this species upon Wistaria 

 frutescens D. C, one of the Leguminosae, but Abbot says it "feeds on 

 blades of Indian corn," Zea mays, a paniceous grass ; so, too. Dr. Chapman 

 has reared it upon the woolly beard-grass, Erianthus alopecuroides Ell., 

 one of the Gramineae. 



Life history. In the north the single record of its occurrence is April 

 2, in Connecticut (Norton). In the south it is apparently trigoneutic, 

 for Dr. Palmer took it in different parts of Mexico in the first half of July 

 and again in September and October. He also brought specimens from 

 Florida Keys taken in the first half of July and Dr. Oemler sent me a 

 female from Wilmington Island, Georgia, taken at the end of October. Dr. 

 Chapman found the larva August 2 at Appalachicola, Fla. Abbot, more- 

 over, bred the butterfly April 20 and June 29, all which indicates three 

 broods in the south: April, end of June and September. Maynard, who 



