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the southern Connecticut, since Mr. Emery reports that it is "not uncom- 

 mon" in certain stations about Holyoke and Mt. Tom in Massachusetts. 

 I have also taken two battered specimens at Jefferson, in the White 

 Mountains. Gosse took it at Compton, Lower Canada, and D'Urban on 

 the River Rouge, north of the Ottawa ; three or four specimens have 

 also been captured at Suncook, N. H. (Thaxter). 



3. Minois Alope Scudd. This insect is tolerably abundant, sometimes 

 very common, in the southern half of New England, occurring through- 

 out Massachusetts and the two states lying south of it, and in the 

 southern extremities of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont The 

 most northern localities from which I have seen specimens, or received 

 notes of its capture, are Norway, Me. (Smith), Thornton and Shelburne, 

 N. H. (Faxon), and Sudbury, Vt. Mr. Jones states that it is also found 

 in Nova Scotia. It occurs in open woods and orchards, as well as along 

 roadsides and stone walls, especially such as are overgrown with brambles 

 or skirted by shrubbery. 



4. Minois Nephele Scudd. This insect is found over the whole northern 

 half of New England in great abundance. The only locality in which I 

 have met with it in Massachusetts is the elevated region about Williams- 

 town, but it undoubtedly approaches closely to the northern limits of the 

 state. 



5. Argus Eurydice Scudd. In New England this is not a very rare 

 insect, especially in the northern and elevated parts. There is no notice 

 of its capture south of Massachusetts, nor in the Connecticut valley 

 south of New Hampshire. In the latitude of the White Mountains, and 

 as far south as Campton, it will be found extremely abundant by those 

 who look for it in its proper haunts, elevated moist meadows. 



6. Megisto Eurytus Scudd. The northern limit of this butterfly prob- 

 ably follows the isotherm of 45°, for this seems to be its boundary in New 

 England, since it is found in some abundance in Walpole (Smith) and 

 Milford, N. H. (Whitney). There is no record of it farther north, except- 

 ing at Norway, Me., where Mr. Smith found it in abundance ; at Plymouth, 

 where it is not very common (Scudder); and at Brunswick, Me. (Packard), 

 toward which place, being on the sea-coast, the isotherm probably turns. 

 It does not occur among the White Mountains, but probably will be found 

 close to their southern boundaries, and quite as far north in Vermont. 



