IO2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [March, '13 



Other localities that I am aware of from my own and other 

 collections, including the British Museum, are : North Carolina, 

 Nevada, Maine, Pennsylvania, Florida, Colorado, Arizona, Ore- 

 gon, Oklahoma, Sonoma Co., San Bernardino and Shasta (Cal.), 

 Texas, Vera Cruz, Orizaba, Polochic Valley, Guatemala, Brit- 

 ish Honduras, Nicaragua. All the females from the last half- 

 dozen localities are suffused with blue, whilst a characteristic 

 of the California!! males is that they have quite narrow black- 

 borders. 



The larva (teste Comstock) is highly variable in color red 

 brown, violet brown or yellow brown as a rule, but he has 

 had them green, also red brown striped with green. Generally 

 they are speckled with lighter, from which the hairs spring. 

 On July 4, 1908, he found fifty eggs on Desmodium ( ? sp. ) at 

 Monmouth Junction, N. J., which duly hatched and fed up well 

 on red clover flower heads. The first imago appeared on July 

 27th. August 2d more eggs were easily found on the same 

 species of plant at Snake Hill, N. J. On September /th both 

 ova and larvae were found at Dennisville. N. J., on Lcspedcza 

 hirta, and on the i6th of the same month forty larvae and a 

 few unhatched ova were found on the same species of plant at 

 Andover, N. J. All these larvae hibernated, but all died ; my 

 friend tells me he had thought that on account of their small 

 size they were not full fed and he expected them to feed up in 

 the spring. The probability seems to me that in a very favor- 

 able October there may be a partial fifth brood (this I say from 

 the fact that Mr. Comstock found two pupae in that month), 

 but that in ordinary seasons the larvae feed up fully in the 

 autumn, hibernate in this stage and complete their metamor- 

 phosis in the spring. 



Habits of the perfect insect. Mr. Frost considers it is a 

 species easily frightened, in which case it will suddenly drop 

 to the earth and will crawl down almost into the roots of the 

 grass : they often indulge, however, in play or quarrels, when 

 they will frequently mount into the air to a considerable height. 



Genitalia. These prove conclusively in my judgment that the species 

 is a form of coretas, not of argiades. I regard these as distinct species 



