APATURA I. 



copies of some formerly made from Jones's drawings, and has permitted me to 

 see them. In the absence of coloring, these tracings may pass for Celtis, or 

 Alicia, or Leilia. They merely exhibit the group chaa-acters, and are useless in 

 determining the specific. Fabricius gave no habitat for Lycaon, and the chief 

 reason nrged for applying his description to any American species whatever, 

 when it plainly fits none, is that no other is known to exist to which it would 

 apply better, — truly a very insufficient reason. It is by no means impossible that 

 a fourth or a fifth species belonging to this same group may yet be forthcoming, 

 and it would be difficult to show that the Fabrician description, or Jones's figures, 

 were not mtended for one of these. And for aught that appears, the figures may 

 have been taken from an Asiatic species. The same reason has been alleged for 

 applying to Clyton Bois. the description of Herse Fab., founded also upon Jones's 

 drawings. But after seeing tracings of these, I entertain not a doubt that they 

 were meant to represent either Idyja, or a species allied to that, and could not 

 possibly have been meant for Chjton. Boisduval's names should be retained for 

 both these species. They were figured and described by him now more than 

 forty years ago, and as Celtis and Clyton have been known during all this period. 



The differences between Celtis and Alicia may be seen by comparing the 

 figures on our Plates. (Alicia, Vol. I. pi. 45.) They consist principally in size 

 and color, the preparatory stages of Alicia not being known. It is a similar 

 case to that of Turnus and Enrymeclon, or Eurytheme and Philodice, wliich 

 difter in color only, and with many species of many genera which might be 

 mentioned. The description of Lycaon applies to Alicia, apart from the group 

 characters, but in a single particular, the upper side of secondaries being fer- 

 ruginous, and tails in evei'y other point mentioned. 



I have bred large numbers of Celtis from the e^g, expressly to see if any 

 variety like Alicia would result. But there has appeared nothing of the kind. 

 Mr. Riley, nearly a thousand miles west of me, in Missouri, has had a like ex- 

 perience. And from Texas, as fiir south of Missouri, come numerous examples 

 agreeing with those bred in West Virginia. The pair of Alicia from which the 

 descriptions were drawn, were taken in Louisiana, but others have been received 

 from Georgia, and the species may be conmion in the Gulf States. If it were 

 a mere climatic variety of Celtis then it should take the place of that species in 

 Texas, on the same parallel. 



Note. — After the foregoing lines were in print, — 9tb May, 1875, — upon a half-opened leaf bud of 

 Hackberry, on one of the upper branches of the tree, six feet from the ground, I found a caterpillar of Celtis, 

 just out of hybernation, feeding. The ground had been swept by the winds all winter, and three weeks before 

 the date mentioned had been ploughed. I must beliove that the caterpillar had hybernated on the tree. 



