. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. if* 'i. ' \m - K (•sir 1058 THE lU'TTKHFLIKS OF NKW KNOLANP. soiitliern Illiii-is "3|):irin,ii'ly" ( Finicli), nortluTii Illinois (Wortliington), Diiyton and (\)liimlnis "occatiioiiiilly" and at C'incinnati. Ohio, in groat nuinl)ors ( Kirtland), tliongli Diiry says it is rare at the lattorpoint; IJcigcn Hill (Akhurst, Andrews) and Hrigantine Beaeh, N. J. (Ilaniiltt)n) ; New Vurk City (Smith). Fire Island Ik-aeli "
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. if* 'i. ' \m - K (•sir 1058 THE lU'TTKHFLIKS OF NKW KNOLANP. soiitliern Illiii-is "3|):irin,ii'ly" ( Finicli), nortluTii Illinois (Wortliington), Diiyton and (\)liimlnis "occatiioiiiilly" and at C'incinnati. Ohio, in groat nuinl)ors ( Kirtland), tliongli Diiry says it is rare at the lattorpoint; IJcigcn Hill (Akhurst, Andrews) and Hrigantine Beaeh, N. J. (Ilaniiltt)n) ; New Vurk City (Smith). Fire Island Ik-aeli "abnndant" (Smith), Hahylon ?'few" (Smitli) and other parts of Long Islan<l (Akhurst, Hooper, De- Forcst, Topper). In New Fngland proper it lias only heen found in the following plaees on the sontliei'n eoast, mostly near Narragansett May : Narragansett Pier, South Kingston "very abundant"' (Cliaj)in). Newport, R. I. (MeCurdy), New Hedford (I'arker) and Fall K'iver, Mass. (^reCullum), and New Haven. Conn. (Yale coll. nms.). It is the only ease krown of a southern l)utterfly with a widespread distril)ution whieh has invaded the southern eoast of New England and has not been detected in southern Ontario. This ib the more remarkable iis it is found in Wisconsin, sometimes in eonsid- eralile numbers, at a nuieh higher latitude than in Ohio. Oviposition. Dr. C. V. Wiley once observed the female ovipositing, and ti'Us me that she laid about one egg a minute in the twenty minutes she was watched. She chose the more tender leaves of the food plant and laid them lioth upon the upper and under sui'faee of the leaflets. Food plants. The caterpillar feeds on diiVerent species of Cassia (LegMminosae) ; Abbot and Smith figure it on C marylandiea Linn., on which IJihy observed it; lioisduval and LeConte specify C. cliamaeerista Linn., and Dr. Cha|iman has taken it upon the latter and u;'on C. occiden- talis Linn, and C. tora Linn. Dr. (lundlach stales that in Cuba it
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