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peared,) the mules usually along the mad or edges of woods; tlie 

 females in the woods about the flowers of the '-rattle weed." 



I have re-described pseudargiolus, as the description in Boisduval 

 and LeConte is imperfect, and may apply equally well to this species, 

 or to neglecta or to violacea, and the figure of the male is not pseudar- 

 giolns, hut nearer violacea, being same size, very like it beneath, but 

 not well colored on the upper side. Neglecta I described in the Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sei., Phil., 18(52. It is a Northern species, closely allied 

 to pseudargiolus and replacing it, of smaller size, with primaries azure 

 blue, pale in the disc, and secondaries grey-blue, with azure margin, 

 mbling the other in the color of under side and in markings, ex- 

 cept that they are less delicate. Pseudargiolus was first described by 

 Abbot and Smith, and regarded as identical with argiolus of Europe 

 and so named. It does closely resemble that species in size and color 

 above. The name and mention of identity with argiolus would be 

 enough to determine the true pseudargiolus to be the one I have de- 

 scribed above, although Abbot's figure is not drawn or colored with 

 sufficient delicacy to make it reliable where nice differences exist. 

 Certainly neither neglecta nor violacea could be spoken of as identical 

 in "size and color" with argiolus. My attention has been called to 

 some remarks of Mr. Edward Doubleday, in the "Entomologist," No. 

 14, December, 1841, page 209, appended to his description of Poli/om- 

 matus ( Lycsend) L>j;/damas, which description, by the way, is not 

 copied into Morris' Synopsis. Mr. Doubleday says, "now that I am 

 on the subject of the North American Polyommati, I may just ex- 

 press my opinion that two species are confounded under the name 

 pseudargiolus, one a Northern species, with the markings of the under 

 surface very distinct and coarse, the other a southern one, in which all 

 the markings below are beautifully delicate; but having taken few 

 specimens in the North, and these all females, I dare not speak posi- 

 tively on this head." 



Neglecta is fouud here and there over the Northern States and Ca- 

 nada, and is regarded by collectors, as a not very common species. So 

 far as my own experience went, before the present year (1866) but two 

 or three specimens were likely to be seen upon a June day. The best 

 locality, I knew of, for taking them, was near the "Fawn's Leap," in 

 the Catskill ■• Clove," where a few may always be found, on a sunny 

 morning, flying about the wet spots by the road-side. But, last June, 

 in Kanawha, near Coalburgh, this species appeared in as great numbers 

 as did violacea two mouths previous, and as did pseudargiolus, in June, 



