. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. 1086 TIIK 'MKS OK NKW KN(;h.\Nl). Up- >â : 'I. â ⢠<i.'r If â 1: *' t- â : .''* "v'. Quite similiir .-^wariiis of tliis spccios have often licoii oljncrvcd and it will be siiftieiont herein to refer the reaih'r to the tai)le!» of Wernelnirg and the more detailed aecounts hy Kcferstein. The only instances of ImtterHy migrations helonging te other groups than those I have mentioned are two collected by Wernebtu'g ; one
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. 1086 TIIK 'MKS OK NKW KN(;h.\Nl). Up- >â : 'I. â ⢠<i.'r If â 1: *' t- â : .''* "v'. Quite similiir .-^wariiis of tliis spccios have often licoii oljncrvcd and it will be siiftieiont herein to refer the reaih'r to the tai)le!» of Wernelnirg and the more detailed aecounts hy Kcferstein. The only instances of ImtterHy migrations helonging te other groups than those I have mentioned are two collected by Wernebtu'g ; one is a TiVcacnid, the other a I'apilionid. The first is presumed to lie Chrysopha- nushippothoe of Kuroi)e, which on June 1, IHfiO, in tiie valley of Vigor in southern France, Hew in a northerly direction in immense crowdc in more or less numerous bands from 10 a. m. till evening; all wore males. The other is where more than twenty individuals of Menelaides hector were seen together two hundred miles from land lietwoen the islands of St. Paid and Ceylon. In studying the movements of Anosia plexippns, which iiave been fully detailed under that species, I have been led to the conclusion that this l>nt- terfiv :nakes periodic movements as regularlv as the liirds. 'I'he regidarlv recurring mov incnts of other liutterflies leads me to think that were obser\ati those who are sceptical on this point, the following statement:â Dr. Karl Fritsch, a Vienna naturalist wJio has giveu special attention to field observations upon the seasons of insects, is inclined to iielieve that "n 187ii. when A'anessa cardui was extraordinarily abundant all over lMU"o|)e, its nio\emcnts coultl l)e compared to those of summer \ isitors among the birds, moving north in the spring and south in the autumn. Dr. Katter had sinnmcd up the earlier observations of this year in the statcMient that the butterfiies i)r()balily crossed the Mediterranean from northern Africa, and from Sicily and Spa
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