APATURA I. 
copies of some formerly made from Jones’s drawings, and has permitted me to 
see them. In the absence of coloring, these tracings may pass for Celtis, or 
Alicia, or Leilia. They merely exhibit the group characters, and are useless in 
determining the specific. Fabricius gave no habitat for Lycaon, and the chief 
reason urged for applying his description to any American species whatever, 
when it plainly fits none, is that no other is known to exist to which it would 
apply better, — truly a very insufficient reason. It is by no means impossible that 
a fourth or a fifth species belonging to this same group may yet be forthcoming 
and it would be difficult to show that the Fabrician description, or Jones’s figures 
were not intended for one of these. And for aught that appears, the figures may 
have been taken from an Asiatic species. The same reason has been alleged for 
applying to Clyton Bois. the description of Herse Fab., founded also upon Jones’s 
lawings. But after seeing tracings of these, I entertain not a doubt that they 
were meant to represent either Iclyja, or a species allied to that, and could not 
possibly have been meant for Clyton. Boisduval’s names should be retained for 
both these species. They were figured and described by him now more than 
forty years ago, and as Celtis and Clyton have been known during all this period. 
The differences between Celtis and Alicia may be seen by comparing the 
figures on our Plates. (Alicia, Vol. I. pi. 45.) They consist principally in size 
and col °r, the preparatory stages of Alicia not being known. It is a similar 
case to that of Turnus and Eurymeclon, or Eurytheme and Fhilodice, which 
cifter in color only, and with many species of many genera which might be 
mentioned The description of Lycaon applies to Alicia, apart from the°«roup 
characters, but in a single particular, the upper side of secondaries being fer- 
i ugmous, and fails in every other point mentioned. 
1 llave br 'J lar S e numb ers of Celtis from the egg, expressly to see if any 
variety like Alicia would result. But there has appeared nothing of the kind 
Mr. Riley, nearly a thousand miles west of me, in Missouri, has had a like ex¬ 
perience. And from Texas, as far south of Missouri, come numerous examples 
agieeing with those bred in West Virginia. The pair of Alicia from which the 
descriptions were drawn, were taken in Louisiana, but others have been received 
trom Georgia, and the species may be common in the Gulf States. If it were 
a mere climatic variety of Celtis then it should take the place of that species in 
lexas, on the same parallel. 
Note. -After the foregoing lines were in print,-9th May, 1875,-upon a half-opened leaf bud of 
Hackberrj, on one of the upper branches of the tree, six feet from the cround I found a caternillar of r hi 
IheTt h t bern H at w’ ) feedin ? V 1C gr0Und had been SWept by the winds a11 winter > and three weeks before 
date mentioned had been ploughed. I must believe that the caterpillar had hybernated on the tree 
