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five inches above ground, .and with no attempt to bring other leaves about it. 

 There it pupated. It may be that tlie making of a tent for pupation is the usual 

 habit of the species in natural state, and it may also be a habit of the genus. 

 But in confinement I have not before observed it in any species. Usually my 

 Argynnis larva? have suspended from the sides or top of the bag. 



Since the Plate of this species was given in Vol. I, 1868, much has been 

 learned of its distribution. It is not common in the Kanawha Valley, West Vir- 

 ginia, where Cijhele is abundant. I never have seen it in June, when many 

 Cyhele are flying, but every year I see a few examples in September. To the 

 eastward of my home, some fifty miles, among the mountains, elevation 2000 

 feet and more, I have reason to think it is couimon enough, and perhaps re- 

 places Ctjhele ; for some years ago. Professor Julius E. Meyer brought several 

 Aphrodite and no Cijhele from a day's collecting in Fayette County. Probably it 

 is found in the mountains all the way to southern North Carolina. Mr. E. M. 

 Aaron has taken it at Asheville, and has received it fi-om Macon County, in same 

 State. He has taken it, he tells me, in various parts of middle and eastern 

 Tennessee, and knows of its having; been taken in northern Alabama. How far 

 to the westward it flies is uncertain, because it has been confounded by myself, 

 Mr. T. L. Mead, and others, with Arg. Cijiris, Edw., a nearly allied species that 

 abounds in the Rocky Mountains from New Mexico and Arizona, through Colo- 

 rado and Montana into British America ; and with another, A. Alcestis, Edw., 

 which inhabits Illinois and beyond, to Nebraska. It tiierefore happens, from the 

 confusing three species together, tliat the western limits of Aphrodite are as 

 yet undetermined. In Papilio, Vol. Ill, p. 161, 1883, I gave Judith Mountains, 

 Montana, as a locality, but I had Cipris in view. So I think it possible that 

 Ciprls was tlie species taken by Captain Geddes, at Edmonton, Alberta, and 

 by Professor Dawson, at Woody Mount, Assiniboia. Aphrodite is stated by Mr. 

 Scudder to be common in parts of Ontario, and in Quebec, along the lower 

 St. Lawrence ; also in Nova Scotia ; but is wholly absent from the White 

 Mountain region of New Hampshire, being replaced there by Argynnis Atlantis. 



