. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. PIKlilNAE: i:Ul«YMUS INTKRIOK. lion nu't witli in tin' \v Hand anil nimintain rt'i^imis in tlie ; So. too, at N't'pij^ou it was not t'oiind next tlic -iiorc of the Itay in ficldx wlicrc K. I'lirvtlu'ini' oi'i'nrrcd, lint in places lietter protected from the \vin<l. aloni,' the railwav eiittin^x^ and in the /.nassy hy their side ; and at jnst siieli places alonjr the railway, did the s|iecies alionnd fnrtiier e
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. PIKlilNAE: i:Ul«YMUS INTKRIOK. lion nu't witli in tin' \v Hand anil nimintain rt'i^imis in tlie ; So. too, at N't'pij^ou it was not t'oiind next tlic -iiorc of the Itay in ficldx wlicrc K. I'lirvtlu'ini' oi'i'nrrcd, lint in places lietter protected from the \vin<l. aloni,' the railwav eiittin^x^ and in the /.nassy hy their side ; and at jnst siieli places alonjr the railway, did the s|iecies alionnd fnrtiier eant. Food plant- Tiie food of this caterpillar remains nnknown. !Mr. Fletcher was the first to oiitain the cifg, and, curions to relate, it was by manipnlatin^tliealidoinen of a female that had refnsed to lay, until an o^<r passed thrunirh iheovipositor. lie has sinci' tried this plan upon various liut- terHies with eipial success and fairly opened a new method with refractory hutterHies, which may yet prove of the hifjliest importance. This eatcr- erpillar refused in turn Trifolium repens. hyhridum and pratensc;. Last year he olitained many cfrj^s. and the history of the larvae that I'csulted, which were divided in eipial parts hetween Mr. Kdwards. Mr. Fletcher and myself. I will j^ive in his own lanjiuaji'e :â "W'e all tried them with every kind of lej^uminons plant we could ob- tain, hut all failed to <ret the larvae to feed. Some ej^f^s were left upon the clover where they were laid, until thoy hatched ; hut they like the others refused to eat. and after wanderinj; about fen- two days, dried up. Some were placetl in a refrigerator at once upon hatchin^r [hopinj^ they wished to hibernate], but they fared no better than the rest. It seems to n»e worth mentionin^r, however, that in oni' jar where younj; larvae were contined with leavi's of several plants, they all <(ra<lually couLrre^ated upon leaves of a. Desmodium and three spccinii ns spun a small cre
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