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Putnam sent me labelled Alope were females of Nephcle. Mr. J. R. 

 Muhleman, long a collector in Macoupin Co., Ills., writes that he has no 

 Alope in his collection and does not know that it occurs there. Prof. S. 

 A. Forbes, of Normal, Ills., writes : " We get Nephcle here, but not Alope 

 in this immediate vicinity. The latter is reported to us from Bureau Co. 

 and also from northern Ills., by Dodge, Worthington and others." Mr. 

 Worthington says : "I have never taken Alope typical form in northern 

 Illinois and know of no one who has. In my list of Ills, butterflies I 

 included Alope on information of Prof. C. H. French, who says he has 

 himself taken it in southern Illinois. I have doubts about Alope being 

 found in Illinois or Iowa. All the Michigan examples I have seen were 

 variations of Nephele Olympus:' On this I wrote Prof. French, who 

 resides at Bloomington, in south Illinois, and he sent me what he had 

 called Alope. It was Nephele with a slight yellow haze about the ocelli. 

 This, Mr. French says, was taken 50 miles north of Bloomington, and is 

 the only Alope he ever has seen or known of having been taken in southern 

 Ills. Mr. Dodge formerly lived in Bureau Co., Ills., and he writes (in 

 reply to my questions as to Alope in Illinois and Nebraska) : " I have 

 never given particular attention to these forms, but I am strongly inclined 

 to believe that you are right, at least as regards the species here 

 (Nebraska). At all events, I was particular to collect the varieties here 

 last summer, and those I have sent you represent both forms as found with 

 us." These were either pure Nephde Olympus, or a little off type only. 

 Prof. Parker, at Crinnell, la., says : " I have not seen at the west, I am 

 sure, the bright-banded Alope" Lieut. W. L. Carpenter, U. S. A., who 

 has collected for several seasons about Fort Omaha, Nebr., says : " Alope 

 is such a striking species, I have no hesitation in saying that I have never 

 seen it before " (I enclosed an example to Lieut. Carpenter). " If it 

 occurs in the valley of the lower Missouri it must be as a straggler from 

 the east, and a rare visitor, or I should have seen it." Mr. Scudder 

 informs me that at the time the Iowa list spoken of was published by him, 

 he considered the two forms, Alope and Nephele, as one species. 



Therefore, for the States beyond Indiana it seems clear that Alope 

 does not fly. If it appears anywhere it would be on the southern side, 

 along the Ohio River, inasmuch as this form does inhabit Kentucky. 

 Indeed the only Alope Dr. Landis discovered was taken in Indiana near 

 the Ohio, at South Bend, and that but a single example. 



Prof. Cook was under the impression that Alope was found in Michi- 



