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forest that it need be looked for. My garden is on the river side not more than 
forty rods from the woods and planted with flowers in masses expressly to at- 
tract butterflies, Petunias, Single Zinnias, Phloxes, <fcc. At all times swarms of 
Papilios are to be seen, and when Oybele is in season it also abounds. But I 
do not recollect seeing more than one Diana there in years, and it flew about 
as if supicious of the place and presently darted off to the woods again. On 
the 10th of July of the present year, (1872) when travelling over the James Elver 
and Kanawha Turnpike, in Fayette Co. W. Va., west of Big Sewell Mountain, in 
course of a drive of ten miles through the white-oak forest, I saw twenty-five or 
thirty fresh males, no doubt that morning emerged from chrysalis. They were on 
the road, either upon sand or on horse dung, solitary except in one instance, when 
I saw two together. So intent were they usually upon their own concerns that I was 
able to alight and approach them without much difficulty, and as I always have a 
net at hand when travelling, I succeeded in taking four specimens in beautiful con- 
dition. But if struck at and missed, they were alarmed and flew wildly up and 
down the road with surprising swiftness, and frequently in and out of the wood, so 
that it was useless to follow them. The same day, Mr. Julius Meyer, of Brooklyn, 
was in the vicinity and observed the same comparative abundance of individuals 
and their unusual gentleness and captured nine, (all males, no females being seen 
by either of us). But for several succeeding days, although he walked repeatedly 
over the same ground and over other roads in the neighborhood, he was not able 
to take a single one. They were two wary to be approached. Except in these in- 
stances I have scarcely ever known of a perfect male being taken by any collector, for 
the surface of the wings is sensitive to the slightest touch, and flying about the forest 
as is the habit of these insects, frequently in furious chase of each other, the wings 
become rubbed and broken. I doubt if a perfect specimen could be found the sec- 
ond day from chrysalis. This species is to be found here and there over a large 
extent of the Southern States, but it can nowhere be common. It seems irreclaim- 
able by civilization, and as if in process of extinction. 
I succeeded, in September 1869, in obtaining eggs from females enclosed with both 
violets and our common iron-weed (Yernonia fasciculata) and in course of a few 
days the larvae were duly hatched. But they could be induced to eat nothing and 
shortly died. 
Mr. Hayhurst, then at Sedalia, Missouri, afterwards wrote me that he had suc- 
ceeded in raising one larva, from some of these eggs that I had sent him, until it 
reached the second moult, when it died. This one fed on the leaves of the other 
species of Yernonia (Noveboracensis). Mr. Meyer suggests that the difficulty in 
raising Argynnis larvae from the egg, is owing to the dryness of the breeding boxes. 
In a state of nature these larvae feed in the forest, on low growing plants and in 
