82 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 



In the light of this discovered relationship, it becomes a question as 

 to ?ieglccta and lucia. I am prepared to believe that neglecta may prove to 

 be one of the summer broods of pseudargiolus in this latitude, but the 

 point can only be determined by breeding from the egg. There are 

 differences between the two forms sufficient to make me regard them as 

 distinct till the contrary is proved. Moreover, Mr. Saunders found the 

 larva of neglecta feeding on leaves of comus, and the description of it 

 published by him in v. i, p. ioo, Can. Ent., does not at all agree with 

 the larva of pseudargiolus. Mr. Mead has lately written me that the 

 larvae of ?ieglecta were found by him last year at Ithaca, N. Y., on flowers 

 of Ceanothus Americanus — New Jersey Tea — but he does not appear to 

 have written a description of them. We may hope that the coming 

 season will settle the question of relationship in these cases. It may be 

 inferred, inasmuch as lucia also is an early spring form (or, at least, I 

 cannot learn that it appears at any other time than in late spring or early 

 summer, which would correspond in New York to April and May here) 

 that it is the spring form of the northern neglecta, which appears in the 

 Catskills in June and at intervals till September. 



I have a full series of drawings by Miss Peart, of the egg, several 

 stages of the larva, and the chrysalis of pseudargiolus, and when I have 

 obtained a like series of neglecta, I will devote a plate to them in the 

 Butterflies of N. A. 



As the plants on which the larvae were found here bloom only in the 

 fall, the larvae of violacea and of the earlier broods of pseudargiolus, if they 

 feed only upon flowers, must live upon a variety of plants. 



Note. — After the foregoing lines were in type, Mr. Scudder wrote me 

 that in Mass. " neglecta, lucia and violacea all appear in May," the inference 

 being that one could not be the parent of another. I cannot but think 

 that there is a mistake here, although Mr. Scudder's accuracy is well 

 known. At Newburgh, N. Y., I always counted on taking lucia on the 

 catkins of certain species of willow, and this was in May. But I have no 

 mention in my diary of ever seeing neglecta before June. I wish that 

 collectors interested in the subject would observe the times of first 

 appearance of each of these species this season, and favor me with their 

 observations through the Entomologist. 



[Our own experience is rather adverse to the theory advanced by our 

 esteemed friend Edwards, as to the identity of neglecta and lucia. We 

 have never taken a single specimen of lucia in this neighborhood (Lon- 



