LYC.ENA n., III. 5 



Violacea are found, and notwithstanding the high elevation the latter discovers 

 the nielauic male; and the second generation is Nerjhcta. (Figs. 13, 14.) 



0. In Arizona, at or about hit. oo', Violacea alone appears, but in a modified 

 form, Cinerea (Figs. 16, 17), no black male and no Lucia so far having been 

 taken ; and the second generation apparently is Pseudarglolus. (Figs. 18, 19.) 



G. In the Atlantic district, from lat. 40" or 39' southward, the summer genera- 

 tion is Neglecta, but there is an intermediate or interpolated generation, flying in 

 May, viz., Pseuclargiolus. (Figs. 8, 9.) 



7. In California and Arizona, the species is represented in part by what is very 

 near to Ncrjlccta, or else a small Pseudargiolus, viz., Echo (Fig. 219 ), but mainly 

 by a modified form, Flams, which has two generations not differing from each 

 other. ( Figs. 20 <?, 209,27?.) 



The three forms of the winter generation are found in Ontario, Quebec, New 

 England, and New' York; to the west, at least as far south as Kacine, Wis. In 

 their territory, they appear at the same time, neither preceding another, as is 

 shown by observations of Rev. Geo. D. Hulst, at Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Dr. E. C. 

 Howe, at Yonkers. N. Y. ; and Rev. Thos. W. Fyles, at Cowansville, P. Q. (In Pa- 

 pilio, Vol. III., 1883, is a full statement by myself of the facts on this point, as 

 also on others concerning the present species, which I can but briefly allude to in 

 this paper.) Violacea, JJarglnaia, and Xecjlecta have been taken on Pike's Peak, 

 Colorado. Violacea-nlgra is not known to have been taken to the north of Coal- 

 burgh, W. Va., nor in Ohio or Illinois, so far as I can learn ; Init it flies in Ten- 

 nessee, N. Carolina, and Georgia, and, as before said, in southern Colorado. 

 Occasional examples of Pseiidarg loins have heen taken near Pittsburgh, Pa., and 

 at Racine, Wis., but to the north of middle West Virginia the form seems to be 

 exceptional. 



I shall give the history of the species as it has been Avorked out at Coalburgh. 

 The first butterflies of early spring are Violacea, and they are generally abun- 

 dant when the peach and wild plum trees are in blossom, or from about 1 0th of 

 March to the middle or end of x\pril, according as the season is earlv or late. 

 This form is vastly more numerous in individuals than any of the later ones, and 

 sometimes they may be seen by thousands in a morning's walk. A few warm 

 days in February bring out many examples, but these are sure to be cut off by 

 frosts and snow a little later. The earliest appearance recorded in twenty years 

 is 17th February, and the latest date of first appearance is 7th April. The Dog- 

 wood, Cornus (Fig. 1, Lj-c. III.), on the flowers of which the female deposits her 

 eggs, does not usually mature its flower buds till about the middle of April, — 

 sometimes late in the month, and the earliest eggs have been found on 13th 

 April. This food plant of the caterpillar of the winter form was unknown 



