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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



ARCHIPPUS. 

 ( Danais Archippus.) 



and fearlessly, often alighting very near me, so that I at 

 length caught it. 



F, — This fine butterfly is said by the American natu- 

 ralists to be unknown north of Virginia; it is rather 

 rare here ; though I have seen as many as half a dozen 

 in a season : in some seasons, however, I have not met 

 with one specimen. They often fly at a great height in 

 the air. 



C. — We spoke some time ago of the habit which some 

 butterflies have of congregating together. I observed, a few 

 days ago, on the public road, great numbers of the Clouded 

 Sulphur (^Colias Philodice) in flocks of eight or ten, pitched 

 on the patches of wet slushy mud; they were so closely 



