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EUPTOIETA, Doubleday. 



30. (154.) EUPTOIETA CLAUDIA, Cram. The Claudia Butterfly. 

 Euptoieta daudia, Mead, Rep. Wheeler Exp., V. 1875, 750. 



French, Sev. Rep. State Ent. 111., 1878, 150. 

 Id., But. E. U. S., 18 <6, 165, fig. 43. 

 Blatchley, Ind. Farm., 18*6, Nov. 6. 

 Scudder, But. E. U. S. and Can., 1889, I, 519; 



III, pis. 14, 21, 64, 75, 84. 



Argynnis columbina, Morris, Lep. N. A., 1862, 44. 

 In the southern half of the State, but not seen or reported in the 

 northern although it should occur there. Given as rare in most of the 

 lists which mention it. Frequents meadows and borders of thickets from 

 July 15 to October 15, a single specimen having been taken by the writer 

 on the latter date in Vigo County. Food plants, violets, May apples, 

 sedum and portulaca. 



MELIT^EA, Fabricius. 



31. (156.) MELIT^A PHOTON, Drury. Phaeton Butterfly. The Bal- 

 timore. 



Melitcea phcdm, Harris, Ins. Inj., 1862, 288, fig. 115. 

 Morris, Lep. N. A., 1862, 50. 

 Packard, Guide, 8th Ed., 1883, 255, figs. 184- 



186. 



Edwards, But. N. A. II, 1884, 151, pi. 30. 

 French, But. E. U. S., 1886, 168, figs. 44-47. 

 Blatchley, Ind. Farmer, 1886, November 6. 

 Euphydryas photon, Scudder, But. E. U. S., I, 690; III, pis. 5, 



12, 22, 64, 75, 84. 



An uncommon species, noted in but four .counties, viz. : Decatur, 

 Vanderburgh, Vigo and Monroe, but probably found throughout the 

 State. This is the only butterfly in Indiana whose larvae live in colonies 

 in webs of their own construction. These web* are woven on the food 

 .plants, which are snake-head or turtle-head (Chelone glabra), and the two 

 monkey flowers (Mimulus). The larvse form the webs about the last of 

 July and, after feeding until they have moulted the third time, tliey pass 

 the winter in a state of lethargy within them. With the first appearance 

 of the food plant in spring they begin feeding again, after which is formed 

 the chrysalis from which the butterfly emerges about June 1. It frequents 

 low, open fields and marshes where the food plants abound, and flits with 

 an irregular and nervous flight close to the earth. 



