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terflv in July, winterino; in this condition and layino- esss in 

 the spring. 



For the interest of collectors I append a list of the localities 

 at which the butterfly has been found in this reojon. It will 

 be noticed that, as in the case of many other southern butter- 

 flies occasionally found here, its track is along the coast and 

 up the valley of the Connecticut; most of the instances of cap- 

 ture are within sight of the sea, where, in marshy spots, one of 

 its favorite food plants, the Gerardia, best flourishes ; this indi- 

 cates the most probably successful place of search for the cater- 

 pillar. 



The New England captures known to me are tlie following : 

 In Connecticut, Prof. S. I. Smith has seen several specimens 

 from the vicinity of New Haven, taken the last of September ; 

 Mr. E. Norton has taken it at Farmington ; and Mr. T. F. 

 McCurdy found the species somewhat plentiful one autumn in 

 the vicinity of Norwich. In Rhode Island, Col. T. W. Hig- 

 ginson reports several from Newport. In Massachusetts, Mr. 

 R. Thaxter has taken it in the western part of the state, Mr. 

 Bennett (according to Mr. C. A. Emery) captured a single 

 specimen at Springfield ; Prof. H. W. Parker (see Psyche, i, 

 26) took a female 25 July, and a somewhat worn male 4 Aug. 

 and saw others on the latter day ; Mr. F. H. Sprague took a 

 number of specimens in Wollaston and Granby in August and 

 September ; Mr. F. G. vSanborn took it in early August on 

 Cape Cod, and I caught one in the same region in September ; 

 Dr. T. W. Harris took a single specimen at Milton 19 Aug. ; 

 and Mr. R. Thaxter has taken and observed several in the 

 vicinity of Newton, and especially about Prospect Hill in Wal- 

 tham. In New Hampshire, I took a specimen many years ago 

 at Hampton Beach on 12 Aug., then the northernmost point 

 at which it had been found ; but since then we have Mr. 

 Davis's capture at Portsmouth in 1875 and July 1876 (three 

 specimens taken), and Mr. R. Thaxter even reports it from 

 Cape Meddock in Maine, not fir north of Portsmouth, N. H., 

 where it was taken 31 July 1874. Both Mr. Parker and Mr. 

 Davis captured their specimens on thistle heads. 



Samuel H. Scudder. 



