. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. I'iKiUN'Ai:: r:rui;MA ijsa. 1001 and ClevoIuiKl, Ohio (Kirkpatrick), Riiffalo, X. Y. (Fisdicr), New 'y (Andrews*), Yonkers (Lintnur). Lonjf Isiland (draet', Smitli, Akhiirttt), and Staten Island, N. Y. (Davis). It has occurred ooeasion- ally in Ontario, Canada, iit Port Stanley and London (Saunders), and Hamilton (MolFatt). In New Kngland it found in al;un<lance only in the extreme south, where it mav he met with along the e
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. I'iKiUN'Ai:: r:rui;MA ijsa. 1001 and ClevoIuiKl, Ohio (Kirkpatrick), Riiffalo, X. Y. (Fisdicr), New 'y (Andrews*), Yonkers (Lintnur). Lonjf Isiland (draet', Smitli, Akhiirttt), and Staten Island, N. Y. (Davis). It has occurred ooeasion- ally in Ontario, Canada, iit Port Stanley and London (Saunders), and Hamilton (MolFatt). In New Kngland it found in al;un<lance only in the extreme south, where it mav he met with along the entire shore of Lony; Island, Khodc Island, and Cape Cod and on the outlyinji' islands. It has been taken at New Haven "quite ahundant" (.Smith), .SutHeld ( Dinnnock), and Farming- ton, Conn. (Norton): Cape (,'od (Fish, .Seudder), Xantucket tolerably common (.Scudderl, vicinity of IJoston (Shurtletf, Minot, Sprague, Heal, Scuddcr), and .Sunderland (.Sprague), as well as in several Massachusetts localities in the Connecticut \'alley such as .Springfield, South Iladley, Flolyoke. (rranhy, Montague (Dimmock, .Sprague. Kmcry, Seudder) ; a single si»cciinen has been taken at the Isles of Shoals, N. H. bj* Mr. Roland Thaxter; and even one in excellent condition at Mt. Desert, Me., bv the same entomologist in August, 1S8(I. Haunts and abundance. Like the Furymi. the butterfly is found in the open country, in gardens, meadows, on the edge of thickets, and around spots of damp earth where it may suck up the moisture. Al)bot says in one of his notes that it "settles so many together at times to suck moist places that I have seen twenty in the compass of a hat"; but the most extraordinary statement is that of Jones (Psyche, i: 121-12-t), con- cerning an inimcusc flight of these butterflies across hundreds of miles of ocean from the American coast to IJernuida :â Thus It w!i,-. Karly in tin- mnniins; of tlic Itrsttlny of October !ast year (ls7l), sev- eral persons li
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