22 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



This place is in the north-Avest corner of the State, next the Vermont line, 

 and the elevated region spoken of is a continuation of the Green Moun- 

 tains. So it appears that Nephele comes down to the Massachusetts line 

 and Alope flies as far as the White Mountains. In the intervening dis- 

 trict the intergrades fly just as in New York. 



I made application to Canadian lepidopterists for information about 

 the occurrence of Alope, and soon ascertained by examples sent me that 

 Nephele with a pale atmosphere, but not at all indicative of a band, passed 

 by the name of Alope. Thereupon I sent a typical Alope to Mr. William 

 Murray, of Hamilton, who kindly offered to make inquiry of his acquaint- 

 ances in different sections of Ontario. He replies, 31st Dec, 1879 : " I 

 now send you my information. Of all my correspondents not one has 

 ever seen an Alope that has been taken in Canada, but A 7 ephele has been 

 taken by all. I begin to think that Alope is not to be found in Canada 

 at any point.'' 



Mr. H. H. Lyman writes from Montreal : " In July, 1876, I spent a 

 couple of days at a farm near Freligsburg. P. Q., one mile north of the 

 Vermont border, and found Nephele very common. Most of the speci- 

 mens taken showed a yellow ring about the eye-spots on primaries, but one 

 of them shows on upper side a somewhat faint, but quite discernible, 

 patch corresponding to the yellow band of Alope. Was at same place in 

 1877. Alope was not seen either year." Mr. Caulfield writes Mr. Lyman : 

 " I have never taken a specimen of Nephele showing any tendency towards 

 Alope, nor have I seen any Canadian examples showing it." Mr. Lyman 

 adds that at Portland, Maine, where he collected several summers, Alope 

 was common as well as Nephele and all intergrades. 



(To the west of New York, in the latitude of the belt spoken of, it is 

 believed that the two forms fly together at least as far as Wisconsin. 

 Prof. A. J. Cook writes that both are common in Michigan, south of the 

 latitude of Grand Rapids At Toledo, Mr. John Wilson writes that Ne- 

 phele is rare, and Alope unknown, so far as appears. At Cleveland, O., 

 Dr. J. F. Isom informs me that Alope is very rare, but that Nephele is 

 abundant in some seasons. In south-west Ohio, Dr. H. K. Landis, of 

 Columbus, w r rites that he cannot learn that either form has ever been 

 taken. They are not mentioned in Mr. Dury's list of butterflies found 

 about Cincinnati. But in northern Illinois Nephele is abundant and 

 Alope not found at all. So that somewhere between New York and Illi- 

 nois, in Ohio and Indiana, Alope seems to disappear, while Nephele be- 



