SATYRUS II., in. 
tergrades of New York. Of 16 3 examined, 14 have 6 ocelli, 1 ha, 5, 1 has 
... L . ' j f ° > ,er c ] ent - llave 6 > 50 P er ce "t' have over 3 ; the males agreeing 
with Nephele of Canada. ° ° 
Boopis was described as distinguished from Nephele by the absence of ocelli 
o,i under side of h.nd wmgs. The male is dark brown, and the ocelli on under 
loie wings have nearly always yellowish rings, often faint. In the female the 
rings are enlarged and sometimes the field is yellow-tinted, and occasionally this 
is nearly clear yellow, making a broad, but clouded, band. This again resembles 
some of the intergrades before spoken of. Of 5 J, 4 have 2 ob^escent oee'!i 
iuu .1 1 INK 'lings, 1 has 1. Of / 9, 1 has 3, 5 have 2, 1 has 1; so that there 
is mamtest y a decrease in the number of ocelli, as was pointed out by Dr. Belir 
I ig. 6, Plate III., is a good representation of Boo pis 9. 
Some Nephele females are undistinguishable from females of Boopis but the 
difference between the males is more marked, the former showing a full compt 
° Snla i ]1 0ce h ln most cases > and but three or less very rarely, the other 
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These Satyrids live in grassy fields, or in open woods in which much grass 
1C eggs are laid on grass and the caterpillars make that their food In 
many sections of the country, the butterflies swarm in their season, and were it 
not lot the fact that grass is usually cut for hay at the time the caterpillars are 
matming, whereby countless numbers must be destroyed, they would swarm 
e' erywhere m their localities. There is but one annual brood, ‘in the Catskills 
the butterflies begin to appear about middle of July, and in certain places hun- 
ied.x may be taken during a summer’s day. On the flowers of the hardhack 
Spirea tomentosa which blooms in old fields in July, multitudes gather. So on’ 
buckwheat when in blossom. The flight is low, with tremulous wing, and for but 
a short distance. About the end of July, the females are ready to deposit their 
ggs which hatch during middle and last half of August. The caterpillars go 
lethargy at once, descending to the base of the plant, and must revive the 
nex spiing as soon as the frosts are over, and warm rains make the fields green. 
r Scudder, in his “ Butterflies,” speaks of the multitudes of Alone (Hlari- 
hma) to be seen at times on Nantucket, “ a continuous stream.” I spent some 
° n f 1 '| artl,a 8 Vineyard, at Oak Bluffs, in July, 1877, and on the grassy plains 
nek ot the town I searched daily for butterflies. The first Alope-Maritima 
sicn "ere two males fresh from chrysalis, 23d July. On 26th, the first female 
appeared, and I took that day 12 t, I 9. I left the Vineyard, and Mr T L 
Mead who had come there just at that time, undertook to get eggs for me On 
10th August, or fifteen days after the first female had been seen, he began to 
