. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. mi^nwum 'â¢'⢠'"'- *A NYMI'IIALIXAK: Kl'VANKSSA AXTIOPA. 407 in tlio clirysiiliH state for sixtoon dayn and tlic l)\ittcrHi('.s appear again early in Scptonilicr, .sonietinu's l)y tiie , usually not until tlio fJth nr JStli: they continue to onicij^e from the chrysalis even to the first week in ()eto- l)er* and reniiiin upon the \vin<j; through Octolicr and, if the weather is favorable, the early part of NoviMuher. Saunders
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. mi^nwum 'â¢'⢠'"'- *A NYMI'IIALIXAK: Kl'VANKSSA AXTIOPA. 407 in tlio clirysiiliH state for sixtoon dayn and tlic l)\ittcrHi('.s appear again early in Scptonilicr, .sonietinu's l)y tiie , usually not until tlio fJth nr JStli: they continue to onicij^e from the chrysalis even to the first week in ()eto- l)er* and reniiiin upon the \vin<j; through Octolicr and, if the weather is favorable, the early part of NoviMuher. Saunders says (Can. ent., i : ;)- 7(i) that " about the middle of ,Iune, the imago heeomes very scarce, then disapijcars until the advent of the seconil hr 1 idrlij in Anriiixt "; hut I think there nuist he some mistake in this ; for it is scarcely possible that the broods of this insect in London, correspond with those in the White Mountain district and similar regions with a limited summer, where there appears to be but a sinr/li.' lirood, appearing aliout the end of the first week in August. The same, according to Fernald, is the case in central Maine. In the extreme southern states, on the other hand, there are probably three l)roods, for Al)bot records the disclosure of a butterfly in (leorgia on the 4th of May, eleven days in the chrysalis, and this cer- tainly allows time for two more broods. Hibernation. The butterfiy hiiiernates late in the autunm. (lossc says, " one of the latest seen of all our ; Harris states that he has found it " in midwinter sticking to the rafters of a barn," as Mr. (irote has since (h)ne, " and in the crevices of walls and stone heaps, huddled together in great munbers, with the wings doubled together above the l)ack and apparently benumbed an<l lifeless; l)Ut it soon re- covers its activity on being exposed to ; It may also be found singl}' in similar situations. .Mr. Ilold
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