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since it takes flight less readily than usual. Said to occur in cotton- 

 fields in Mississippi. Mr. Edw. D. Harris has taken a dark olivaceous- 

 green variety of which he writes me as follows: "I took four specimens 

 in all. The type in that locality — Litchfield County, Connecticut, — is 

 found at lower levels but not in profusion. All these individuals [of 

 the variety] were taken at an elevation of looo or 1200 feet, in open 

 road, not where the type is apt to be found, and were more sluggish 

 than 6-guttafa. It was evidently not common, for during the entire 

 month of August I took but four, and these singly in widely separated 

 localities. The point which I should wish to emphasize is that neither 

 of the specimens were taken in localities where the type might be ex- 

 pected. In the cabinets of the American Museum of Natural History 

 Mr. Beutenmiiller has a specimen taken last summer [1897] in the 

 mountains of North Carolina. There is no doubt of the species, but 

 I have wondered if others had met with this variety in high grounds 

 and to what extent it prevails." Further notes on this form are desir- 

 able and I shall be pleased to hear from any one who has taken it. 

 C. violacea Fabr., the variety in which spots are entirely lacking, seems 

 to have been the subject of no printed notes regarding habits, but I 

 hear from Mr. Warren Knaus that in Kansas it is found sparingly along 

 wood-paths and roads. It is not easily taken. Specimens are usually 

 green, a few being deep blue. He has it from Manhattan, Onaga, and 

 the vicinity of Benedict. C. patruela Dej. , where the spots unite to form 

 a more or less complete median band, seems common in Pennsylvania. 

 Mr. Nathan Reist takes it at Chiques Rock, Lancaster County, on 

 wooded river hills where the soil is a mixture of gravel and loam, 

 well overgrown with grasses and ferns. It occurs in company with 

 the type and is quite abundant but not very wary. He finds it some- 

 times under leaves, when it can be captured with the bare hand. The 

 first brood is found in May, the second during early September. Mr. 

 Geo. Ehrmann met with it but once at Pittsburg, on a stony, barren 

 hillside; it was seen by him in numbers, however, at Cresson, Cam- 

 bria County, on the summit of the Alleghenies. Mr. S. T. Kemp fur- 

 nishes the following note on the blackish variety, C. conseiitanea Dej.: 

 "I find it inhabiting the edges of a good-sized piece of woods on 

 dark soil, also on bare spots in the same woods. It is very wary, and 

 when disturbed, seems to take a longer flight than the other species. 

 The timber is on higher ground than the surrounding country. Atco, 

 New Jersey, September. Rare." 



