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southern second-brood form of pseudargiolus ; his reference to the broad 

 costal and outer marginal bands of the $ is characteristic, although the 

 colour description does not, even broadly, tally with his later figures 

 that he repeatedly refers to this form (Butts. Nth. Anier., ii., Lye. 

 pi. ii., fig. 12), whilst his early localities, as here noted, are by no 

 means southern. Under the name of pseudargiolus, he figures also 

 another neglecta 2 of large size (op. cit., fig. 9). We doubt very 

 much whether there is any justification for this change, or w T hether 

 such modification of the original description should be allowed as to 

 include both these forms. It is quite clear that Edwards' later figures 

 do not conform with his original description. As a rule, the name 

 neglecta is now applied, in America, to the progeny of the spring 

 imagines, appearing in May and June, as a partial second, or 

 between July and October, as a partial third, brood. Scudder notes 

 (Butts. New Engl., ii., pp. 929, 930) that in $ neglecta the wings are 

 nearly uniform, slightly pale bluish-violet with no approach to 

 purplish, the central parts of the wings occasionally very slightly 

 paler, the hindwings usually to a considerable extent being whitish- 

 blue excepting near the base, and the outer border and in the vicinity 

 of the nervules, . . . the outer border edged with black, in the hind- 

 wings as a mere thread, in the forewings narrowly but slightly in- 

 fringing on the costal margin above, alternating to a mere thread 

 below ; hindwings with a submarginal row of small, indistinct, some- 

 times obsolete, deeper blue spots ($)', the ? forewings slightly fainter 

 violet, as far as the middle of the discal cell ; the outer margin, the costal 

 margin, and the slender discal lunule blackish- brown ; the broad 

 middle and outer portion of the violaceous space becoming suddenly 

 rather pale ; the hindwings only violaceous along the basal half of the 

 median and submedian nervures, most of the rest of the wings being- 

 pale, almost white . . . the outer border in the $ edged with a thread 

 of blackish, followed by a slender pale line, and this by a submarginal 

 row of blackish-fuscous spots in the interspaces, etc. The underside 

 of an uniform, very pale, ash-grey, scarcely tinged with pale bluish, 

 and forewings w T ith a slender, transverse, obscure, pale fuscous, discal 

 streak, edged faintly with pale, the middle of the outer two-fifths with 

 a transverse, usually mostly obliterated, series of pale (occasionally 

 dark) fuscous, very slender, short bars, arranged, so far as present, as 

 in the other forms ; outer margin edged very faintly with a thread of 

 pale fuscous, within which is sometimes. a submarginal series of faint, 

 pale fuscous, small, round spots, and, more frequently, a series of slightly 

 darker . . . lunules . . . wanting or less distinct on the upper half 

 of wing; hindwings with the small dots arranged as in violacea, usually 

 small, and some occasionally absent ; the marginal fuscous thread 

 faint, the submarginal series of small round spots largest and blackest 

 on lower half of wing, the arched linear marginal lunules darkest 

 near the anal angle. Fringes above pale, latticed with dark at ends of 

 nervures, beneath silvery-white, flecked slightly with pale fuscous." 

 This is, of course, the form that Edwards figured in 1884 as neglecta, 

 but not that which he first described under this name in 1862. 

 According to Edwards (Butts. Nth. Awer., ii., Lye. p. 4), at about 

 45° N. lat., the species becomes double-brooded, the members of the 

 second-brood being neglecta ; the second-brood in lat. 40° N., in 

 Colorado, at considerable elevation (on Pike's Peak), is also neglecta. 



