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A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF PHILADELPHIA, PA*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Henry Skinner  and
E. M. AARON
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Pyrameis Cardui— Usually common; some years quite rare.

Junonia cœnia.— Quite local; never very common. Mr. Scudder, on page 501, speaks of its “rapid, strong and enduring flight.” This would seem to indicate that the habits of this insect in the New England States differ materially from those in this locality or further south. It is rare that this butterfly is here observed over a foot from the ground, and then its flight is most erractic, and usually consists of a new fluttering strokes of the wing followed by an idel sail. This is also the manner of flight from Virginia to Florida, according to the observtions of E. M. Aaron.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 21 , Issue 8 , August 1889 , pp. 145 - 149
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1889

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* The Authors wish to state here that as they belong to the two opposing schools in the matter of the capitalizing of specific names, they have left that matter to the judgment of the Editor. [The Editor sent the MS. unchanged to the printer].