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Carolina, I now believe to have been a variety of Alope. Rev. Dr. John G. 

 Morri.s told nie, in 1880, tliat he had never known Pegala to have been taken 

 along tlie coast of Virginia or Maryland. At the same time, Professor C. V. Eiley 

 made inquiries of lepidopterists in Washington, and all agreed that the species 

 was unknown there. A similar inquiry made the present season received a 

 similar reply. I could not hear that it was found in middle and northern 

 Georgia or in north Mississippi, on corresponding with collectors. And the late 

 Messrs. Boll and Belfrage, long resident in Texas, and professional collectors, 

 could give me no information about Pe<jala, though Mr. Belfrage said that Alope 

 was common where he lived, in Bosque County. Mr. Heiligbi'odt, at Bastrop, 

 said that, at times, Alope had been common, but he did not know Pegala. But, 

 on the other hand, Mr. Otto Meske, of Albany, N. Y., wrote that, in 1876, he 

 received a single Pegala from Bastrop, the only one he ever saw from Texas. 

 This may have been a one-eyed Alope, for occasionally an Alo2)e with but one 

 ocellus is taken in the Northern States. 



But, on the other hand, Mr. William H. Ashmead writes me that he saw two 

 examples of Pegala, the present season, at Alum Springs, Rockbridge County, 

 Virginia, " one of which aliyhted on the side of an oak tree not four feet from 

 me, and I had a most excellent opportunity for seeing it. It astonished me to 

 see this species so far north, and I pointed it out to my little daughter, who 

 was walking with me at the time, and said : ' See, there is a beautiful butterfly, 

 like what we have in Florida.' " The locality is about 150 miles southwest of 

 Washington, among the mountains. It is almost impossible to get information 

 about butterflies, at the present day, in any of the Southern States, except 

 Florida and Texas. Fifteen and even ten years ago, there were several persons, 

 in different States, to whom I could apply for information. Now I do not know 

 of one. The late H. K. Morrison lived among the mountains of North Carolina, 

 and year after year made collections of butterflies for sale, but I have never 

 heard that he took Pegala anywhere, certainly, in his own State. I have no 

 idea that this species is found from Alum Springs .southward, or that its presence 

 in the locality mentioned is other than accidental. 



What, then, is the form which has been taken somewhat abundantly in certain 

 parts of New Jersey ; by Mr. E. M. Aaron, at Mt. Holly, in 1882, by Mr. J. B. 

 Smith, " in the pine barrens," 188.3, and by Dr. Henry Skinner, at Cape May, 

 1889? It is small (Figs. 6, 7), the size of Alope-3IarUhna, and looks like that 

 form. But many examples have but one ocellus ; others have one and a point in 

 place of the second. Dr. Skinner Avrites that there are all sorts of intergrades 

 up to undoubted Alop)e, and they fly together. He has sent me a male, on which 

 the band is yellow, not ochraceous. On fore wing there is a single ocellus, and on 



