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  Notes 
  on 
  some 
  Lepidopteka. 
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  XXVI. 
  NOTES 
  ON 
  SOME 
  LEPIDOPTERA. 
  

  

  Grapta 
  Satyrus 
  Edw.: 
  in 
  Trans. 
  Amer. 
  Ent. 
  Soc, 
  II, 
  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 
  larvse 
  

   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 
  larvse 
  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. 
  \ 
  

  

  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. 
  violacea, 
  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. 
  1877. 
  

   + 
  Canadian 
  Entomologist, 
  vol. 
  vii, 
  p. 
  216 
  1875. 
  

  

  