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Ze, above and beneath, and the chrysalis of the latter. These are suffi- 
ciently accurate to identify either or both as vuz//e but not sufficiently 
exact to serve to clearly illustrate the very minute differences on which 
this species depends for its future life. 
Taking the above questions in their order, we first come to the very 
remarkable statement that our author can find ‘‘no description of any 
species of Agraul’s from the West Indies.” Such Fathers of our Science 
as Linné, Fabricius and Cramer, credited vani/ie to ‘‘ America” in 
general; and Linné quotes it as from Georgia and from Surinam. Bois- 
duval and Leconte say: ‘‘It also inhabits the Antilles and nearly all of 
South America.” Passing by the median ground of such authors as La 
Sagra, Herrich-Schaeffer, Geyer, Poey, e/a/, all of whom have referred 
vanilie to the Autilles, we come to such recent writers as Bates, who in 
his ‘‘Nymphaline of the Amazon Valley”, (Journal of Entomology, 
No. 4, June 1864), says of vanil/e : ‘* This well-known and very com- 
mon species has the widest range of all the members of the Ca/enis and 
Agraulis groups, being found throughout Brazil, and as far north as the 
Southern States of North America, including the West Indies.” Fol- 
lowing him, Butler, in his indispensible work on the Fabrician types in 
the British Museum reiterates this wide extent of its range. In his ‘‘An- 
notated Catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Island of Cuba,” 
Senor Don Juan Gundlach, (Papilio, Vol. I, pp. 111-115, ) gives zane 
a place in the rich fauna of that island, where it is well known to col- 
lectors to be not uncommon. And to end with Kirby, our author not- 
withstanding, does give vamil/e as occurring in the West Indies in the 
very comprehensive habitat *‘ Georgia ad Braziliam.” 
During a residence of several years in East Tennessee Agraulis va- 
nille was observed by me to be one of the commonest species in that 
region and as it was one of the hardiest it was raised by me in greater 
numbers than any other butterfly. This experience taught me that there 
was a very considerable range of variation in the relative proportion of 
darker scales which make up the spots and marks, and in the nacre 
scales which beneath give it the silvery-spotted character. There was 
also a considerable variation in the size and, I now notice on looking 
through some of this material, also a variation in the proportions of the 
wings, the females inclining to greater robustness in this particular. 
Tabulating the differences pointed out by Mr. Maynard as distin- 
guishing these two species we have the following : 
