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seen more than a dozen or two specimens in a sin- 

 gle day. Yet this is not at all true of Oeneis, and 

 one hardly need to be anxious, in our generation 

 at least, concerning its persistence, for the butter- 

 fly is as abundant in its native haunts in proper 

 season as almost any of the more favored inhabit- 

 ants of lower levels. 



