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least, in which Alope is unknown, and beyond the northern border of which 

 it does not pass. And while Pegala may here and there inhabit this belt, 

 it is not common except to the south of the belt, or in the country 

 adjacent to the Gulf, and in Florida. How far to the northward along the 

 Atlantic coast it flies I am not advised, but perhaps as far as Virginia. It 

 inhabits St. Simon's Island, Ga. 



A single diminutive (as if from a starved caterpillar) Pegala £ has 

 been sent me by Prof. Lewis R. Gibbes, of Charleston, S. C, which was 

 taken some ten years ago on the line of the Charleston & Augusta R. R., 

 60 or 70 miles inland ; and Prof. Gibbes states that he has had two or 

 three other examples in his collection, one of which he believes was taken 

 at Charleston. He also sent me an Alope, which with a few others was 

 taken Sept., 1878, in S. C, about 25 miles inland. Evidently Pegala is rare 

 about Charleston. Rev. Dr. Jno. G. Morris tells me that he has never known 

 of Pegala being taken along the coast of Maryland or of Virginia. Prof. 

 Riley has made inquiries of entomologists in Washington, and all agree 

 that the species is unknown there. There are so very few collectors of 

 butterflies along the Atlantic coast from Georgia to New Jersey that only 

 scanty information can be obtained on this subject. A single male, of the 

 Florida type, was taken by Mr. Laitloff, near Jersey City, and 

 kindly sent to me for inspection ; but I can hear of no 

 other having been taken or seen in the Middle States. I believe 

 Pegala and Alope are kept apart by the nature of their food plants. Alope 

 feeds on meadow grasses, which not being found in the cotton belt, the 

 species is checked. On the other hand, the coarse grasses which grow 

 along the Gulf and in Florida, and along the sea coast, must form the 

 food of Pegala. The two species could come together only by accident, 

 as after a storm ; or the eggs or larvse might be transported artificially. I 

 have taken the semi-tropical species, Sphinx Ello, in the Catskill Moun- 

 tains, and many butterflies which live in the Gulf States have occasionally 

 been taken on Long Island, and along the coast of New England. Jersey 

 City is close to the salt meadows, and the grasses which flourish thereon 

 would be allied to those of the southern coast, and be the proper food of 

 Pegala. Mr. Ashmead says : " I have never seen or heard of A lope being 

 taken in Florida, nor do I think it is found here." Prof. J. E. Willet, of 

 Macon, Ga., informs me that he has neither Alope nor Pegala in his col- 

 lection, which is a local one, and does not know of them in his district. 

 Mr. Chas. T.Jameson writes from Oxford, Northern Miss. : "I have not seen 



