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often present either perfect, or as a more or less distinct black dot. In 
1880, Mr. Edwards knew of only solitary examples taken north of Vir- 
ginia, along the Atlantic coast. In.1882 however, Mr. E..M. Aaron of 
Phila. and Mr. S. F. Aaron, his brother, collected the species in large 
numbers in So. N. J., and the past summer (1883) I collected specimens 
in the pine barrens of the same State; in small numbers it is true, and all 
with two ocelli, and of a somewhat smaller size (2 inches) than the south- 
ern specimens; but except for the difference in size, there is not a point 
of disagreement with them. Some a/ofe from Long Island entirely fill 
the slight gap left by my N. J. specimens between typical a/ope and typical 
pegale. It must be remembered too that typical a/ofe varies also in the 
direction of a single ocellus in the yellow band. I believe that somewhere 
in Southern N. J. in the Pineries, will be found that belt in which pegale 
and a/ope fly together and intergrade. Pegale has been caught by Mr. 
Aaron and myself, and I know that a/ope has been caught there by others 
as well as myself. What I claim for pegale, is the same relation to @ope.in 
one direction, that is borne by mephele in the other. The alofe figured 
in Bd. and Lec. is certainly this species, and in my copy, the larva 
has the yellow stripe across the feet, the upper white stripe is yellowish 
and the intervening space green, stippled with black, It agrees very well 
with Mr. Edwards description of some forms of aloge larva; the chrysalis 
is different from that of alofe, but slightly so, and perhaps but little more 
so than in olympus which is classed as an undoubted variety. 
Form nephele Kirby. The difficulty with pegade is repeated in this 
species, but as the fact that it intergrades with @/ope is entirely well settled, 
I need only briefly describe it. Generally smaller than a/ofe, seldom ex— 
panding more than 1.5 inches; color darker, more blackish, the yellow 
band entirely wanting, the ocelli reduced in size, sometimes without centre, 
and. occasionally only with a hazy yellowish areole round the spots: the 
anal ocellus is usually present, and beneath, the full number of ocelli on 
secondaries is usually more or less completely indicated. From this type 
form there are variations in the direction of a/ofe in certain localities, and 
principally in the catskill mountains. ‘These intergrades fill up the differ- 
ence in size between the type forms, the ocellate spots of primaries be- 
come larger, and from an indistinct yellowish ring, up to the complete 
yellow band, all intergrades are found. I have collected all the forms, in 
the vicinity of Lexington, N. Y., and in the Shandaken gap, a place 
very much like Stony clove, and but a few miles west from it. On the 
hills in the medows I find the intergrades most numerous, a few 
