[121] NOTES ON SOME LEPIDOPTEBA. 



XXVI. NOTES ON SOME LEPIDOPTERA. 



Grapta Satyrus Edw.: in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., IT, p. 374. 



An interesting discovery, and addition to our New York 

 Fauna, is the recognition of the above species, among the col 

 lections made by Mr. W. W. Hill, at Fenton s, Lewis Co., 

 (Adirondack region) during the season of 1877. 



The type specimens, described as above cited, were from 

 the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. In 1871, the butterfly was 

 reared by Mr. Henry Edwards, from examples of the larvae 

 found by him on a species of Urtica, at Congress Springs, 

 Santa Clara Co., Cal. The larva is described and figured, from 

 a MS. and drawings by Mr. R. H. Stretch, in Edwards But 

 terflies of North America I, p. 120, pi. 40. On the same plate, 

 the butterfly is beautifully represented in both surfaces and 

 sexes. Mr. Edwards also credits the species to New Mexico, 

 Oregon and British America.* 



The occurrence of this species in Northern New York is 

 believed to be but the second instance of its collection east of 

 the Rocky Mountains. The larvae were found by Mr. C. W. 

 Pearson, of Montreal, Quebec, feeding on nettle, at Chateau- 

 gay Basin, about fifteen miles south of Montreal. The butter 

 flies emerged after a pupation of ten or twelve days, f 



Lycaena Lucia Kirby and L. pseudargiolus Bd.-Lec. 



In consideration of the interest attaching to these species, 

 from the identity shown by Mr. Edwards, of L. molacea, L. 

 pseudargiolus and L. neglecta, (see Canadian Entomologist, 

 vol. x, pp. 9, 10), and the suggestion by the same author, that 

 L. Lucia may prove to be but a northern form of the same, 

 I give below some memoranda kindly furnished to me by 

 E. C. Howe, M. D., of Yonkers, N. Y., of observations made 

 at that locality : 



* Catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of North America, p. 28. 18T7. 

 t Canadian Entojnolo^ist, vol. vii, p. 21ti 1875. 



