

330 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Foop PLANTS OF NEW ENGLAND BUTTERFLIES. —The following list of 
the plants upon which the larve of our New England butterflies are 
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examination of many authorities, and by the k ommunications 0 
several friends. In especial we would mention Messrs. William Saun- 
4 . Edwa o give the authorities in every instance 
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would extend the list unnecessarily; any additions to it, or correction 
and confirmation of the probable food plants, would be most grateful to 
the ec 
lio Asterias, cultivated and native umbelliferous plants ; often found 
pp biu nce on parsley and carrots. P. Troilus, see spicebush, 
on ash; will eat lilac sparingly. P. Turnus, apple, thorn, choke 
cherry, cultivated tud alder, tulip, black-ash, e. ponent oak. 
P. Philenor, aristol 
Pieris oleracea, nen cabbage, radish, mustard. P. rape, cabbage. 
P. Protodice, cabbage. 
Colias Phélodice, clover, garden pea, lupine, lucerne, and other species 
of medicago. 
erias Lisa, T. delia, clover, senna. 
rossi fpem cruciferous plants. 
ıs Americanus, sorrel and dock. C. Thoe, polygonum. C. 
Brem, probably inh endok or some kind of sorrel; possi- 
bly cranberry. 
Poyon matus Porsenna, probably arrow-wood, elder, or hawthorn. 
Lycæna neglecta, cornus and wi ow; also Erythronium? L. lucia, 
She ech the eh and perhaps buckthorn and wild lupine? Z. comyn- 
tas, Lespedeza 
Thecla Clie probibir species of Rubus, Genista, and Hedysarum. 
T. Falacer, hawthorn; also oa , and per n blackthorn? T. strigosd, 
horn, dee apple, willow. 7. humuli, hop, oak. T. Auburniana, smilax?, 
red ced T. Niphon, pine. T. Fobin, T wu T. Mopsus, 
wild ec cultivated plum, Eupatorium. T. Augustus, Vaccinium? T. 
Henrici, Vaccinium? T., Acadica, willow. T. Scudderii, ter perennis. 
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cynum. 
Limenitis Misippus, willow, poplar, plum. L. Ursula, scrub oak, goose- 
berry, wild cherry, Vaccinium, hin MA plum, quince, ha "a? 
= poe. L. Arthemis, thorn. L. Proserpina, probably some species 

Aromas Idalia, A. Cybele, A. Atlantis, A. Aphrodite, probably violets; 
5 , Polygonum, or Rubus. A. 
ial violets and cultivated pansy. A. o probably violets. Æ. 
RD Bellona ona, probably violets ; ispbe 
a Nycteis, plantain? sunflower, M. Harrisii, Diplopappus um- 
. M. Tharos, plantain? M. Phaeton, Chelone glabra, hazel; Will 
currant. ; 


