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Edwards asserts that the large form of neglecta, which he calls pseud- 

 argiolus, is distinct in origin from summer neglecta, the latter being directly 

 descended from the spring form violacea, and the former not, although 

 Edwards adduces no satisfactory evidence that this form, identical in 

 every detail, except its large size, with the second-brood neglecta, has 

 come from over-wintering pupas. Further, he notes that, from June 

 to October, a few examples, that might, for size and appearance, be 

 either his pseudaryiolus or neglecta, are to be found ; these presumably 

 are a partial third brood (Edwards says that there is no general brood in 

 this period). The form neglecta then, may be progeny of violacea (first 

 brood) ov neglecta (second brood), whilst the progeny of neglecta,\i emerging 

 the same autumn, produce neglecta, although the brothers and sisters 

 going over as pupas to the spring, then emerge as violacea. Edwards quotes 

 Lintner (op. cit., p. 9), as saying that " neglecta appears in swarms at 

 Centre, New York," as violacea sometimes does in Virginia, but neglecta 

 never, " the air seemed blue from the myriads," and adds that " they 

 fly at Centre, and in the vicinity of Albany, from mid-May to mid- 

 June, while the winter forms have been unknown to collectors till 

 recently, a single example having been taken here and there ; the 

 myriads, of course, are from hybernating chrysalids. May at Albany 

 is "early spring, and neglecta comes with the first blossoms, just as 

 violacea, in Virginia, comes in April, with the blossoms. Neglecta 

 in Albany is the winter form; but, two degrees further south, or about 

 New York city, the three primary winter forms abound in early spring." 

 All of which may look very clear, but one would like to compare the so- 

 called neglecta taken in Albany, in May, and coming from over- 

 wintering chrysalids, from those in other districts, that have undoubtedly 

 been bred in the summer from spring-laid eggs. The difference 

 between the summer form neglecta, and the spring or winter-forms, is a 

 real one, due to climatic and physiological differences, and one supposes 

 here some want of definiteness in the naming of the forms under 

 discussion, due to Edwards' own extension of opinion as to what 

 constituted neglecta. One suspects that Lintner is here writing of the 

 form Edwards first described under this name, and not that which he 

 figured some 22 years later. 



p. var. gozora, Bdv., " Lep. Guat.," p. 17 (1870); Godm. and Salv., 

 "Biol. Centr. Amer.," ii., p. 104(1887-1891); Dyar, " List Nth. Amer. Lep.," 

 p. 45 (1902). — Appearance and shape as in argiolus. Above the wings are 

 of a more violet-blue, with a slender blackish border, and the fringe greyish- 

 white ; the centre of each wing offers, in certain lights, a whitish tinge, which 

 shines through the blue colour. Below the four wings are white, slightly ashy, 

 with some small blackish dots, of which one on the forewing is lunular in shape, 

 and the others, scattered between the base and the middle of the hindwings ; one 

 sees, moreover, towards the outer edge of each wing, a blackish line, in festoon, 

 followed by little obsolete dots of the same colour. The ? differs from the c? in 

 that the disc of the wing is whitish, tinged with violet. It is found also in 

 Honduras. It appears to be very much commoner in Mexico (Boisduval;. 

 Localities: — Mexico — Milpas (Farrer), Jalapa (Hoge), Oaxaca (Fenechioj; 

 Guatemala — Los Altos, Duefias (Godman and Salvin), Guatemala City, Cerro 

 Zunil, San Geronimo, Perula, Chiacam, Sabo (Champion); Costa Bica — Cache 

 (Bogers); Panama — Chiriqui (Bibbe), Bugaba (Champion), Pinal, Puebla, Orizaba 

 (Elwes), Sierra Madre de Tepic, Jalisco (Bichardson), Acaguizotla, Omilteme, 

 Xucumanatlan (H. H. Smith), Patzeuaro (Godman), Solola, Volcan de Santa 

 Maria (Bichardson). 



This is a real southern subtropical form of pseudargiolus, with all 

 the general modifications that accompany the lightening of the ground- 



