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various forms it assumes. Some of these names 

 have been applied to the species as it appears in 

 California, but as oar knowledge of its history in 

 that region is exceedingly fragmentary, we will 

 altogether overlook it, and 

 speak of the butterfly as it 

 exists on the Atlantic coast. 



Beginning then in the 

 south, it first appears as a 



. _ _ ... FIG. 148. Cyaniris Pseudar- 



blue butterfly With large dlS- giolns, male, nat. tlze ; upper 



* surface (Harris;. 



t i n c t markings beneath ; 

 some of the males, however, are wholly brown 

 above, while others are blue with a faint blush 

 of white and a heavy brown border ; this form 

 is called violacea [Fig. 150]. Later in the season 

 it appears with very delicate mark- 

 ings beneath ; the males are now 

 always blue above, with a dash of 

 white in the middle of the front 

 wing ; this variety is called Pseu- 

 darlolus proper [Fig. 151]. 



^ S we P ass northward a change 

 occurs in the first brood; the 

 brown males gradually become rarer 

 and the blue males more common. When we 

 have reached the vicinity of Boston, we have 

 the following conditions : First appears a blue 

 butterfly in which the spots of the under surface 

 are very large and often blended into great 



