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May only are noted for Transcaucasia (Komanoff), yet Elwes mentions 

 {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1899, p. 328) the first brood as being common 

 at Brisk in the Altai, in early June, 1898, the second generation, much 

 larger, was out in the Bija Valley, the first week in August. T. B. 

 Fletcher states that the species is common at Wei-hai-Wei all the 

 warm season, apparently appearing in three broods, viz., in April, 

 June, and September, and Herz noted it in the Lena district from 

 June 21st-July 26th. Pryer also notes that it occurs in Japan from 

 March to October, in continuous broods. Fixsen looks on specimens 

 taken May 20th and June 10th in Corea, as belonging to different 

 broods. The number of broods appears to vary in America according to 

 the latitude and altitude. In West Virginia, Edwards says (Can. Ent., 

 viii., p. 203) that the species must be successively-brooded, since fresh 

 individuals are to be seen every month from April to September. 

 Scudder believes that there must be more than three broods in the 

 southern States, for the first brood appears as early as April 12th 

 (Chapman), the second brood, June 24th (Abbot), it is noted on August 

 25th in Alabama (Gosse), and specimens were taken the last of October in 

 Georgia (Oemler); but this method of selecting the dates of particular 

 captures in different years, and assuming that they represent different 

 broods occurring every year, is open to grave objection. In the greater 

 part of the States, Scudder assumes three broods : (1) first appearing 

 May 6th-10th, and continuing throughout the month. (2) July 6th- 

 9th, continuing into early August. (3) August 19th-20th, continuing 

 until at least the third week of September. In the White Mountains, 

 and in the more northern parts of its American range, Scudder says 

 that there can be only two broods/" and that worn specimens, taken just 

 before the middle of July, were remnants of the first brood. If 

 amyntula be co-specific with corny nt as, then it occurs even earlier than 

 any of these authors note, for Wright records it on the wing at the 

 end of January, 1893, in Lower California, where the weather is dry, 

 mild, and equable, and occasionally reaches 90° even in mid-winter 

 (Papilio, iii., p. 117). The following recorded dates have been collected 

 from various sources, but those from the Pyrenean district and Digne 

 should be accepted with caution : — April 26th, 1848, the first imago, $ , 

 bred, the next $ , May 9th, followed in a few days by three $ s and one ? 

 at Glogau (Zeller) ; as late as September 20th, 1 858, in the Rhine meadows 

 above Uerdingen (Stollwerck); the latest for the year on September 

 10th, 1859, at Waldeck (Speyer); May 23rd-25th, 1871, in the Forest 

 of Amboise, May 6th-30th, 1872, in the Forest of Amboise (Lelievre); 

 August 9th-12th, 1872, on Mt. Pilatus, August 18th, 1872, at Mei- 

 ringen (Lang); mid-August, 1876, at Bellagio (Forbes); August 29th, 

 1882, at Biarritz, September 1st, 1882, at Pierrefitte-Nestalas, at 



* Scudder adds (Butts. New Engl., ii., p. 925): " Everes amyntas occurs 

 throughout Europe, with the exception of certain northern and north-western 

 portions, and is double-brooded; our tailed blue E. comyntas, named for the resem- 

 blance to its European congener, and by some careless authors considered identical 

 with it, is also a wide-spread insect, but even in New England, which is at the 

 northern limit of its eastern range, it is triple-brooded." One suspects that here 

 Scudder doth protest too much. Recent investigation suggests that these are, 

 indeed, the same species with similar life-histories, in the Palsearctic and Nearctic 

 regions, and, besides, Scudder fails to tell us how many broods comyntas has at Great 

 Slave Lake, the mouth of the Saskatchewan river, at London, Toronto, and other 

 places where it has been found in the more northern latitudes of America. 



