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examples Dr. Wittfeld has seen since he has collected butterflies, that is, 

 in course of five or six years. Stelenes is Cuban, according to Gundlach's 

 list, PapiHo, vol. i., p. 112. It is also credited to Jamaica by Chenu — per- 

 haps on authority of Doubleday's Genera, which I have not at hand to 

 refer to ; though Gosse in his Naturalist in Jamaica does not mention it. 

 It is found on the Continent from Mexico to Brazil. In my Synopsis, 

 1872, I credited this species to New Mexico, but on what authority I quite 

 forget. At any rate, it was erroneous. Nor has it been taken in S. W. 

 Texas, as Strecker's Cat., 1878, says. In my Cat., 1877, I rejected the 

 species for want of authentication. Its capture in Florida is the first 

 instance known to me of its having been taken in the U. S. The species 

 is very showy, expanding nearly 4 inches. Color pale brown, or blackish- 

 brown, with a broad belt common to both wings of yellow green, and with 

 submarginal green spots. Victorina ranks between the genera Timetes 

 and Diadema. Dr. Wittfeld has at Indian River, at one time or other, 

 taken three species of Cuban butterflies in single instances, viz., Papilio 

 Folydainas, Diadema Alisippus., and V. Stelenes. 



LYCAENA PSEUDARGIOLUS Bois. 

 Spring form, Pseudargiolus. 



In But. N. A., vol. 2, I stated that this form of the species must re- 

 produce itself in May of the next year ; the chrysalids " probably produce 

 butterflies in small numbers in July and later, but most of them hibernate, 

 and give Psendargiohis (form) the following May, or earlier " ; and I said 

 that I had never yet succeeded in getting a chrysalis completely through 

 the winter. Some time in the winter, when the butterflies (in the house) 

 were ready to emerge, the shell of the chrysalis proved too hard for them 

 to force it open, and they died prisoners, but with full color and markings 

 of Pseudargiolus in the wings. Observations in the field, as I related at 

 length, supported the view I had taken as to this form of the species. 



In May and June, 1884, I had got together 28 chrysalids of form 

 Pseudargiolus. in July, I buried them under rocks in the forest, in a 

 shallow box filled with leaf mould — first scalded to kill eggs or larvae of 

 depredating insects — the upper and under side of the box being covered 

 with fine wire gauze. This seemed to be as near as possible to the 

 natural conditions, consistent with protection against marauders, as I 

 could get. On 27th October, I opened the box, and found 26 chrysalids 

 apparently alive (as they had on trial perceptible weight), and two 



