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been included.^ Some of the more important records have also 

 been recorded in the second and third editions of Prof. J. B. 

 Smith's New Jersey list. The .specimens have been compared in 

 many instances with those in various public museums and private 

 collections, and several specialists have done me the honor of 

 looking carefully over my collection. The identifications are 

 therefore doubtless generally correct. Mr. Charles P. Benedict, 

 of West New Brighton, and Mr. Oscar Fulda, of Stapleton, have 

 added some species to the list, and the names of several other 

 collectors are mentioned in connection with the species obtained 

 by them. 



Family NYMPHALIDAE 



Danais plexippus Linnaeus. May to November inclusive. I 

 have never found any hibernating on the island. The first in- 

 dividuals to arrive are usually females, although males have been 

 taken; in May. They do not become numerous before August. 

 On September 29, 1889, fourteen of these butterflies were counted 

 about a single plant of the New England aster, and their terra 

 cotta colors contrasted well with the purple flowers. They are 

 often quite common on the seashore and alight on seaweed and 

 other objects cast up by the waves. On November 25, 1894, a 

 male was found in a sheltered situation on the side of a bank at 

 Tottenville. It was a fresh, bright specimen, and had evidently 

 been frozen to death. Probably none of our butterflies fly higher 

 than this one, often among the swallows. It does not always beat 

 its wings but sails with them spread in somewhat the same man- 

 ner as do many birds. What may possibly be called a migration 

 of this species was observed on August 27, 1885, when many 

 monarch butterflies were seen flying slowly westward along a 



^ The following partial lists have been previously published : Butter- 

 flies of Staten Island, Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten Island i : 5. F 1884; 

 Catalogue of the Butterflies of Staten Island, New York, Journ. N. Y. 

 Ent. Soc. I : I. Mr 1893 ; Staten Island Hawk Moths, Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. 

 Staten Island 8 : 47-48. Ja 1903 ; Preliminar}' List of Staten Island Moths 

 Belonging to the Families Saturniidae, Ceratocampidae, Syntomidae, 

 Arctiidae, and Agaristidae, Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten Island 9 : 15-16. 

 Mr 1904. 



