COLIAS II., III. 
ner’s Anthyale, I have taken at Coalburgh, and have received both from Texas 
and Nova Scotia. It is characterized by very narrow borders, restricted on costa, 
and by the conspicuous markings of the under side. A more diminutive pair, 
but less aberrant, I have in my collection, the male expanding 1.3 inch and the 
female but 1.2, captured in a meadow at Newburgh, N. Y. The female (Fig. 7, 
PI. 3 .), in which the discal spot of primaries projects a spur towards the border, 
was bred by me at Coalburgh, as was the other, in which the border is immacu¬ 
late. Mr. Reakirt (Proc. Ent. Soc., IV., p. 219) mentions an example in which 
the connection of the discal spot with the border was complete, as being in the 
collection of the Entomological Society; and Mr. Lintner (same work, vol. III., 
p. 55) describes a female with immaculate border. Mr. Reakirt also speaks of 
one in which the border takes the form of the “ dog’s head ” characteristic 
of C. Ccesonia, a variation which I myself have not observed in the present spe¬ 
cies, but which does sometimes appear in the female Eurytheme , and is indicative 
of the generic affinity of the two species. 
By inclosing the females of Philodice, at the proper season, with a plant of 
growing clover, eggs are readily obtained, and in this way I have repeatedly 
raised the larvas. In such cases the parent is carefully preserved for comparison 
with its progeny. Sometimes, out of a brood, the variation from the mother has 
been unnoticeable, but in other cases very great, and this might well be owing 
to the difference between the parents. So a pale sulphur-colored female will pro¬ 
duce some like itself and some of a deep yellow, etc. In the few instances in 
which I have taken pairs in coitu, there was a close resemblance between them 
in color and markings, but many observations are required to deduce any rule 
therefrom as to like seeking like. Albinism is confined to the female, and ex¬ 
amples are not uncommon in the field. Of course, these unite with yellow 
males, and the product is partly albino and partly yellow, or it may be all yel¬ 
low. In one instance I had five butterflies from eggs laid by an albino, and there 
resulted one male and four yellow females, no albino. In another case of four 
females one was an albino. Mr. Mead has met with similar results, and neither 
of us have known an albino to be produced from the eggs of a yellow female. 
The yellow females raised by me from albinos have all resembled one another in 
this, that the under surface of secondaries has been densely coated with gray 
scales, giving a peculiar and mealy appearance, and nearly all of both sexes have 
had conspicuous double discal spots on the under side of secondaries, as repre¬ 
sented in Fig. 2, PI. 3. 
The mature caterpillars differ in that some have a series of black spots beneath 
the lateral band, while in others there is no trace of this ; but the same brood 
will exhibit both varieties. The deepest colored examples of the butterfly which 
