The Offspring of a Captured Female Basilarchia Proserpina

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A female Basilarchia proserpina, taken at Springfield, Vt.August 1, 1908, refused to oviposit on the leaves of any available species of birch, poplar, or willow, but when furnished with wild cherry leaves deposited thirty-one eggs from sixteen of which offspring were reared to maturity.Of these offspring, nine (five males and four females) closely resembled the mother, and seven (four males and three females) were of the white-banded arthemis type, called by Edwards (1879) form lamina.