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is not rare at Kacine, Wis. ; these points just about indicate its 

 extreme southern limits ; it has not been reported in the west beyond 

 Montana. In New England, it has been everywhere found, being 

 extremely abundant in the northern half, not at all uncommon in the 

 central portions, but comparatively rare in the south." Reference 

 must also be made to Edwards' notes on lucia, which he published 

 with his original descriptions of marginata, violacea, and neglecta, and 

 which are all quoted (postea, pp. 414, 410, 423). 



y. ab. brunnea, n. ab. Lucia ab., Edw., " Butts Nth. Amer.," ii., Lye. pi. ii., 

 fig. 25, p. 10 (1884). — Fig. 25 is a suffused lucia sent by Hulst, from Brooklyn 

 (Edwards). The underside has the ground-colour quite white; the marginal 

 series of lunules on both fore- and hindwings are quite complete from apex to 

 anal angle. It is peculiar in that the submarginal arches of the fore- and hind- 

 wings, rilled in with blackish or blackish-fuscous in lucia, are bright yellow-brown, 

 as also is the large central quadrangular blotch (also blackish in lucia) of the hind- 

 wings ; in addition, the upper extra-mesial row of dots on the forewing are 

 extended wedge-like in a direction pointing towards the discoidal lunule, the 

 third one almost touching its lower point. 



8. ab. fumida, Scudd., "Butts N. Eng.," ii., p. 933 (1889).— The intensest 

 amount of markings on the undersurface of the hindwings of this species is 

 reached in individuals (the so-called form marginata) where the outer border is 

 margined with a broad, fuliginous border having a distinctly erenulate interior 

 edge and enclosing a series of submarginal dots, and in which the whole disc of 

 the wing is covered with an extensive fuliginous patch, including all the spots, 

 excepting those on the inner border, which thus become, to a greater or less 

 extent, suffused together. In a single c? in the collection of Mr. Roland 

 Thaxter, the extent of these fuliginous markings is so great that the spots 

 on the inner margin also are included, and the whole wing is fuliginous (paler 

 along the nervules) excepting a small basal patch crossing the entire wing, and a 

 transverse, interrupted, rather narrow, arcuate, silvery-grey band, narrowing from 

 above downwards, margined on either side with blackish-fuscous, running sub- 

 parallel to the outer border of the wing, and at fully two interspaces distance from 

 it. That this is truly a suffused variety is plain from the extreme narrowness, 

 comparatively speaking, of the silvery-grey band, and from the fact that, on the 

 forewing, not only is the fuliginous outer border of rather more than excessive 

 breadth, but the extramesial spots are broadened, more or less blended, rather 

 fuliginous than blackish, and those of the median interspaces accompanied by 

 elongate, broad blotches of faint fuliginous, filling almost the entire remainder of 

 the interspaces, toward the base of the wing. The fringe is less distinctly alter- 

 nate than usual, the darker colour being much in excess. Expanse of this 

 specimen 30mm. (Scuclder). 



According to Edwards (Pap., iii., p. 86 ; Butts. Nth. Amer., ii., 

 Lye. pi. ii., figs. 1, 3, 5) lucia has a black patch and dark margin on the 

 hindwings, whilst " lucia without the black patch is marginata, and 

 marginata without the black and heavy border is violacea." Scuclder 

 (Butts, of New Engl., ii., p. 945) sinks marginata, and suggests that 

 "it is only a phase in the variation of lucia," and further states (op. 

 cit., p. 933) contrary to fact, that marginata is the form with the 

 intensest amount of markings on the under-surface of the hindwings. 

 As a matter of fact, therefore, it appears that the ab. fumida, Scudder, 

 is an extreme aberration of the lucia, and not of the marginata, form. 



e. ab. pseudora, Scudd., "Butts. NewEngl.,"ii.. p. 933(1889). — In the collection 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History is a ? of this species, collected at 

 Milford, N.H., on May 23rd, by Mr. Sanborn, which differs from the normal ? in 

 a peculiar manner. The uppersurface varies only as we may expect occasionally 

 to happen, the basal two-thirds of the costal border being heavily sprinkled with 

 violet, and the outer portion of the hind scarcely showing any trace of submarginal 

 spots ; the latter feature is the more remarkable since the same part of the undersurface 

 is quite heavily marked. On the undersurface, however, the extramesial series of spots, 

 in both the fore- and hindwings, is removed outward, and has become confluent with the 



