. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. NVMPHALIXAE: VAXESSA CAllDL'I. 481 â #. -0 other districts. That its power of flij^ht is great we know from iiulepeiul- cnt sour(!es. Thus Trimen relates that a specimen Hew on hoard a vessel in which he was sailing, when about ninety miles from Teneriffe; and another writer speaks of one visiting a vessel six hundred miles from tiie African coast diu'ing a cyclone; other similar thougii not so striking in- stances might be added. The im
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. NVMPHALIXAE: VAXESSA CAllDL'I. 481 â #. -0 other districts. That its power of flij^ht is great we know from iiulepeiul- cnt sour(!es. Thus Trimen relates that a specimen Hew on hoard a vessel in which he was sailing, when about ninety miles from Teneriffe; and another writer speaks of one visiting a vessel six hundred miles from tiie African coast diu'ing a cyclone; other similar thougii not so striking in- stances might be added. The immense swarms which covered Km-opc in 1879 are attributed to such immigrations, but these arc spoken of more in detail in another part of this work, to whicli the reader is referred. Oviposition. I have observed egg-laying at various hours from 10 to 4 The ovipositing female aliglits upon a [)Iant and moves aljout with trembling wings, and body generally on a line with tiie midrib, until it finds a spot to its tnstc; the wings, elevated at an angle of about forty degrees with each other, now become quiet, the tip of the abdomen is bent down upon the leaf, and the egg is insta'itly laid. 1 observed one l)Uttertly aligiit many consecutive times on unopened tiil^tle iieads, tiuusting her alxlomen between the spines to the very sei)als, as if in the act of ovipos- iting ; but no egg was laid until she alighted on a leaf. The same buttcr- Hy appears never to lay more than a single egg upon one leaf, although she frecpientl}'^ de[)osits eggs on ditferent leaves of the same j)lant, and in one particidar instance laid them upon cut leaves lying on the ground; in this case she laid them upon the uj)perniost surface, whichever way the leaf was turned; cm the plant they are always laid upon the nppcr surface; and I once found an egg on a spinous '. air of a thistle-leaf. Several eggs may sometimes bo found on the same Jc >f, l)ut they will always hatch at different times, sho
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