30 
Psyche 
[March 
side the whole of the hind wings and the apical portion of 
the fore wings is dull pinkish red, often quite uniform, but 
usually darkest in a long irregular narrow triangle bordered 
by irregularly crenulate lines running from a base near the 
outer angle to an apex near the anal angle. This triangle 
often includes two small oval blue spots narrowly ringed 
with lighter, or some traces of such spots. The wings are 
somewhat fuller and less angulated than the wings of the 
preceding form. 
The wings are curiously soft, and are rarely broken or 
torn, though they may be rubbed. The insect always feels as 
if it had recently emerged from the chrysalis. 
It is sluggish and rarely flies for more than fifty feet or 
so, alighting usually on the ground in thin grass or weeds. 
It is not shy and is easily captured. I have never seen it on 
a flower. 
It is exceedingly local and is confined to boggy lowlands 
with an abundant growth of Agalinis purpurea on which the 
larvae feed. It is very numerous in the restricted areas where 
it occurs, appearing in late summer. 
Not infrequently in late summer individuals of the small 
light form are taken in moist areas which show an approach 
to the large dark form in a greater or lesser development of 
pink markings on the under side of the hind wings. But as a 
rule the two forms are quite distinct, at least in this region. 
As the large dark indolent form is strictly confined to 
wet meadows while the small light form is the only one 
occurring in dry situations, it is logical to consider the 
former as a “wet” and the latter as a “dry” form. Moreover, 
the differences between these two forms are essentially the 
same as those between the wet season and the dry season 
forms of the Asiatic Junonia orithya, J. almana and /. iphita. 
In Asia the wet and dry forms of Junonia alternate. With 
us the wet form develops from eggs laid by the dry form, 
as in India. But it only develops in water-logged localities, 
the young of the dry form elsewhere being a new dry gene- 
ration. 
So far as known the wet form in the District of Colum- 
bia dies out completely during the winter. 
