LYCiENA II., III. 
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Violacea are found, and notwithstanding the high elevation the latter discovers 
the melanic male ; and the second generation is Neglecta, (Figs. 13, 14.) 
5. In Arizona, at or about lat. 33°, Violacea alone appears, but in a modified 
form, Cinerea (Figs. 16, 17), no black male and no Lucia so far having been 
taken ; and the second generation apparently is Pseudargiolus. (Figs. 18, 19.) 
6. In the Atlantic district, from lat. 40° or 39° southward, the summer genera¬ 
tion is Neglecta, but there is an intermediate or interpolated generation, flying in 
May, viz., Pseudargiolus. (Figs. 8, 9.) 
7. In California and Arizona, the species is represented in part by what is very 
near to Neglecta, or else a small Pseudargiolus , viz., Echo (Fig. 219 ), but mainly 
by a modified form, Piasus, which has two generations not differing from each 
other. (Figs. 20<1, 269, 279.) 
The three forms of the winter generation are found in Ontario, Quebec, New 
England, and New York; to the west, at least as far south as Racine, Wis. In 
their territory, they appear at the same time, neithei pieceding anothei, as is 
shown by observations of Rev. Geo. D. Hulst, at Brooklyn, N. Y.; Dr. E. C. 
Howe, at Yonkers, N. Y.; and Rev. Thos. W. Fyles, at Cowansville, P. Q. (In Pa- 
pilio, Yol. III., 1883, is a full statement by myself of the facts on this point, as 
also on others concerning the present species, which I can but briefly allude to in 
this paper.) Violacea, Marginata, and Neglecta have been taken on Pike’s Peak, 
Colorado. Violacea-nigra is not known to have been taken to the north of Coal- 
burgh, AY. Ya., nor in Ohio or Illinois, so far as I can learn ; but it flies in Ten¬ 
nessee, N. Carolina, and Georgia, and, as before said, in southern Colorado. 
Occasional examples of Pseudargiolus have been taken near Pittsburgh, Pa., and 
at Racine, Wis., but to the north of middle West Virginia the form seems to be 
exceptional. 
I shall give the history of the species as it has been worked out at Coalburgh. 
The first butterflies of early spring are Violacea, and they are generally abun¬ 
dant when the peach and wild plum trees are in blossom, or from about 10th of 
March to the middle or end of April; according as the season is early or late. 
This form is vastly more numerous in individuals than any of the later ones, and 
sometimes they may be seen by thousands in a mornings walk. A few vaim 
days in February bring out many examples, but these are sure to be cut off by 
frosts and snow a little later. The earliest appearance recorded in twenty \eai s 
is 17th February, and the latest date of first appearance is 7th April. The Dog¬ 
wood, Cornus (Fig. 1, Lyc. IIP), on the flowers of which the female deposits her 
eggs, does not usually mature its flower buds till about the middle of Apiil, 
sometimes late in the month, and the earliest eggs have been found on 13th 
April. This food plant of the caterpillar of the winter form was unknown 
