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Another Coalburgh Alope, length .6, br. .22 inch; like the foregoing, 

 being both banded and clouded. Produced a female butterfly, with broad 

 yellow band. 



One Hunter Nephele, B ; color yellow-green, bands and clouding of 

 wings present but indistinct. Produced a female. 



Three Hunter Nephck ; all yellow-green, with no bands or clouding ; 

 the edgings cream color. These all gave males. The chrysalis described 

 Can. Ent., ix., 143, produced a female, but showed no band or clouds ; 

 the edgings cream color. 



Two Illinois examples; length .6, br. .22 inch; color a pale blue- 

 green, the powdery covering giving a whitish hue to the whole ; no bands 

 or clouds ; the edges of mesonotum, head and wing cases white. Both 

 these gave males. I obtained no females from this lot. 



Summary as to chrysalids : 



The largest Alope and Hunter Nephele were alike in color and in dorsal 

 stripes, clouds on wings, and edgings of head case, etc.; but the bands 

 and clouds were most distinct in Alope. All these large chrysalids pro- 

 duced female butterflies. The plainer and smaller chrysalids were male. 

 But one female Nephele chrysalis is recorded as without clouds or bands. 



The Illinois chrysalids were of same shape as the rest, but were small 

 and plain colored, and were blue or whitish-green ; the edgings white 

 instead of cream color. They were readily to be distinguished from any 

 other. 

 Results in butterflies : 



The chrysalis A, Albany Alope, gave a male not differing from many 

 males taken at Hunter, and which there I always regarded as true Nephele, 

 though off type, being without band, but with a narrow yellow nimbus 

 about the ocelli and connecting them, the edges everywhere fading into 

 the black ground. 



On the other hand, the chrysalis B, Hunter Nephele, gave a typical 

 female Alope, with a broad and clear yellow band. The female which 

 emerged in 1877 from the Hunter Nephele before spoken of had both 

 ocelli surrounded and connected by yellow, and stood midway between 

 the types of the two forms. 



The two chrysalids from Illinois, as I have said, gave males; one 

 wholly dark, the irides without rings ; the other had a faint russet nimbus 

 about them, and over the intervening space was a tint of russet. 



The Coalburgh chrysalids produced typical Alope, with broad yellow 



