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of the exterior margin, but widens considerably as it approaches 

 the apex; this border and the immaculate secondaries are of a 

 light cinnamon-brown color. There is a brownish black streak 

 running along the interior margin of underside of primaries. 

 The female is larger and the colors of a lighter shade and not as 

 well defined as in the male. On the upperside it resembles P. 

 hobomok, and beneath P. delaware, except in color. Largest 

 specimen 9 expands 1% inch, and the smallest S i inch. De- 

 scribed from 7 S S I 9 . It is no more than proper that Mr. 

 Aaron should have one of his pets called after him, thus the name 

 emanated. The specimens were found in company with P. pano- 

 quiyi, feeding on the flowers of Statice limonium var. America- 

 num, which grows in the salt meadows, but was quite rare and 

 exceedingly wild and difficult to capture, making off in a straight 

 line when any movement was made near it. The seven specimens 

 represented about ten days careful collecting. 



THE LIMITED RANGE OF SATYRUS ALOPE. 



Without having given the subject any thought or study I had 

 been under the impression that the greater number of species of 

 butterflies had no fixed abode or dwelling-place, but were prac- 

 tically unrestricted in their range, going here, there and every- 

 where in search of food or pleasure. While on a tramp one day 

 and only incidentally looking for insects, not having my net with 

 me, I saw fluttering in and around a small clump of holly bushes a 

 beautiful specimen of Satyrus alope, which evidently had only 

 been a short time from the chrysalis; it alighted, and I endeav- 

 ored to secure it by taking hold of the tips of the wings between 

 the thumb and index finger, when it violently flapped them and 

 left the tips as a souvenir. This spot and its neighborhood 

 proved an excellent collecting-ground, and I subsequently visited 

 it frequently, and each time saw the same alope in the same clump 

 of bushes. I saw other specimens of the same species here 

 which I learned to recognize from peculiarities in the way they 

 were rubbed, etc., as most of the specimens at this time were 

 badly flown. I made this species the subject of some study at 

 the time, and came to the conclusion that it undergoes its trans- 

 formations and lives its entire life, in a very restricted area. A 

 form with one ocellus is found at Cape May, which Mr. Edwards 

 thinks is not pega/a, but a variety of alope. 



