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1956
The Lepidopterists' News
55
WHAT'S IN YOUR BACKYARD?
Those who have read SAMUEL H. SCUDDER'S Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada may remember many references to New Britain, Conn. Our little farm, just inside the city, is a wooded 5 Vi acre hilltop. The flora includes White, Yellow, and Black Birch, several oaks, Shagbark and Pignut Hickory, several maples, Hop Hornbeam and Ironwood, Beech, White Ash, Poplar, Spicebush, Alder, Hemlock, Red Cedar, pines, Tulip Tree, Basswood, Dogwood, Sumach, Sassafras, Willow, Chokecherry, Witch Hazel, Kalmia, Vaccinium, Viburnum, Myrica, flowering Raspberry, Blackberry, Elderberry, and other low shrubs.
Dr. REMINGTON'S interesting article on a one day record around New Haven on July 14th is really something to shoot at next year. Meantime, I wonder whether other "backyards" of similar extent to ours have as large a butterfly population. We have collected 47 species on our farm during the last year (1955), as follows:
Lethe portlandia Lyccena phlceas
Euptychia cymela Eieres comyntas
Cercyonis alope Lyccenopsis argiolus
Danaus plexippus Papilio polyxenes
Speyeria cybele P. cresphontes
S. aphrodite P. glaucus
Phyciodes tharos P. troilus
Polygonia interrogations Anthocaris genutia
P. comma Colias eurytheme
Nymphalis j-album C. philodice
N. antiopa Eurema lisa
Vanessa atalanta Pieris rapa?
V. virginiensis P. virginiensis
Precis lavinia Epargyreus clarus
Limenitis astyanax Achalarus lyciades
L. arthemis proserpina Thorybes pylades
L. archippus Pholisora catullus
Asterocampa celtis Erynnis icelus
Strymon m-album E. brizo
S. titus Ancyloxipha numitor
S. melinus Polites themistocles
S. falacer P. peckius
Mitoura gryneus Poanes hobomok Feniseca tarqumius
Credit must be given to Oscar, one of our cats, for the single battered specimen we have of P. cresphontes.
Within a mile of our farm, we have collected 24 additional species:
Lethe eurydice H. metea
Euptoieta claudia Polites vema
Boloria selene P. manataaqua
B. toddi P. mystic
Euphydryas phaeton Wallengrenia otho
Melitcea harrisii Poanes massasoit
Strymon acadica P. zabulon
Incisalia niphon Atrytone logan
Thorybes bathyBus A. conspicua
Erynnis horatius A. ruricola
E. juvenalis Atrytonopsis hianna
Hesperia sassacus Lerodea I'herminieri
Edward J. & George T. Austin, 99 May St., New Britain, Conn., U. S. A.