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Histoiy, catalogues of which v.-ere pubUshed in the Second and 

 Fourth Annual Reports on the State Cabinet. Of these, the 

 three cases of coleoptera and lepidoptera were speedily 

 destroyed by the ravages of the museum pest, Anthrenus 

 varius. The more valuable case of homoptera, containing a 

 number of Fitch's types, -^ was rescued from entire destruction. 

 Only about a fifth of the specimens, principally of the aphides 

 and other small forms, was lost. The remainder have been re- 

 arranged and are carefully preserved. J. A. Lintner. 



Junonia Coenia in New England. 



It is not surprising that this southern butterfly should be 

 classed among the rari jyapiliones which occasionally extend 

 their range to New England ; for in its own home it is a very 

 common insect, and the food plants of the caterpillar, Linaria 

 and Gerardia, are found abundantly noi-th of any locality at 

 which the butterfly has been taken. Until recently, however, 

 all the New England specimens I had seen were so rubbed as 

 to render it probable that they had flown from a Southern sta- 

 tion, — a hypothesis which the long winter life of the imago in 

 the south rendered defensible. Now Mr. Charles A. Davis 

 sends me an exquisite photograph of two specimens which he 

 took at Portsmouth, N. H., in July 1876, in a condition so 

 fresh that they must have been bred on the spot. On looking 

 up the record of the specimens heretofore taken in New Eng- 

 land and seen by me, I find they were all captured in August 

 or September, and would naturally have been rubbed, if dis- 

 closed in July. It can therefore scarcely be doubted that the 

 species breeds in New England. Whether, as appears to be 

 the case in the south, the insect is double brooded and winters 

 as a butterfly, remains to be determined ; it is the puq^ose of 

 this note to direct attention to this enquiry, and to ask any one 

 obtaining eggs or caterpillars to send me specimens for illustra- 

 tion. As a woi'king hypothesis, I venture to suggest that the 

 insect is single brooded in New England, appearing as a but- 



1 See Fitch, Ann. Rep. State Cab. Nat. Hist., 1851, 43-70, for descriptions of types. 



