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important need, and the few entomologists who visit the White Mountains 

 should take pains to obtain it. The first thing is to secure the eggs of the 

 female, and if she can be seen to deposit them, so much the better. 

 Whatever the natural food of the caterpillar may be, it can doubtless 

 be raised on violets and probably in well selected places at lower 

 levels about as easily as above, where no one spends more than a few days 

 at a time. But a few weeks spent in one of the Appalachian camps would 

 yield the desired information on the spot itself. Visitors to the mountains 

 in June should take particular note if this butterfly is seen ; indeed its 

 history at that time is most problematical. The question of lethargy in 

 the caterpillar would be here a particularly desirable subject of study, as 

 it would seem as if some special devices were needed to maintain 

 this apparently nearly extinct species in such a desolate region, and 

 all the points at issue in the other species may here find solution. Finally 

 search should be made for butterflies of this type all the way from the 

 White Mountains to the mouth of the St. Lawrence, to determine the 

 relationship of this species with its nearest congeners in that district. Is 

 there somewhere no line of demarcation between the two ? 



LLS T OF ILL US TBA T ION tS.— BEEN THIS MONT IN US. 



Egg. Imago. 



PI. 64, fig. 38. Plain. PI. 5, fig. U. Male, botlisurfiices. 



67:16. Micropylc. 33:41,4:2. Male abdominal appendages. 



BRENTHIS BELLONA.— The meadow fritillary. 



[Bellona butterfly (Harris); meadow fritillary (Scudder); meadow butterfly (Mayuard); the 



brimstone butterfly (Ross).] 



Pupilio bellona Fabr., Syst. ent., 517-518 Brenthis bellona Herr.-Sehaeft'., Corresp. 



(1775). zool. rain. ver. liegensb., xix:91 (1S65);— 



Argynnis bellona Go'\.,^\\cjt\. m6tb., ix: gcudd., Am. nat., vi: 513-518 (1872); Butt.. 



253, 171 (1S19);— Boisd.-LeC, L6p. Am. sept., 143-150, figs. 129, 130 (1881) ;— Scudd.-Speyer, 



164-lC5,p]. 45, figs. 5-6 (1833) ;— Geyer, Zutr. yerh. zool. bot. gesellscli. Wieu, xxiii: 145- 



exot. sehmett., v:42, fig. 975, 976 (1837);— 152(1873). 



Harr., Ins. inj. veg., 3d ed., 287, figs. 113, 114 Papilio myvma Mart., Psyche, tab. 1, nos. 



(1862) ; — Morr., Syn. Lep. N. Amer., 45-46 2,3(1797). 

 (1862) ;— Middl., Rep. ins. 111., x : 83 (1881) ;— 



Coq., ibid., 183 (1881); —Fern., Butt. Me., Figured by Glover, 111. N. A.. Lep., pi. 30, 



43-44 (1884) ;— French, Butt. east. U. S., 164- fig. 3, ined. 



165 (1886) ;-Mayn., Butt. N. E., 26-27, pi. 4. [Xot Papilio mvriua Cram.] 

 figs. 31, 31a (1886) ;— H. Edw., Ent. amer., iii : 

 162-163 (1887). 



I behold the firefly's lamp 

 "Waving in the thicket damp ; 

 Evening-primrose sudden l)loom 

 Mid the scented, sultry gloom ; 

 Flitting moths, with riiby eyes ; 

 Folded bees and butterflies. 



Edith M. 1iionKS.—Arigris( . 



Imago (5 : 13. 15; 12:6). Head covered with deep fulvou.s hairs, tinged some- 

 times, especially in front, with yellowish green. Palpi outside white at base, changing 



