LYCiENA II., III. 
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4th, 10th, 19th August; 1st and 14th September. These may have been all 
from Neglecta, but there is nothing to show that some might not have been 
from Pseudargiolus. 
In the spring, there certainly is no connection between Violacea and Pseudar¬ 
giolus. Every year, when the first eggs of Violacea are being laid, some butter¬ 
flies of the other form are on the wing, and before the larvae of Violacea are 
mature the bulk of the Pseudargiolus generation has appeared. About 1st June, 
this form is passing away, and is often entirely gone; and just then come the 
fresh examples of Neglecta, which are in direct descent from Violacea. The 
period from laying of the egg to disclosure of butterfly from Violacea, in the only 
instance in which a butterfly has come from egg of that form the same year, was 
fifty-three days, on 6th June. And many years’ observations show that Neglecta 
begins to appear in the early days of June, becoming abundant about the middle 
of that month. It is only by a connection between Pseudargiolus and the other 
forms in the fall that any inter-relationship can be found ; that is, some chrysalids of 
Pseudargiolus give butterflies which unite with butterflies from chrysalids of the 
June Neglecta to produce the fall larvae, from which come Violacea in April. 
Otherwise Pseudargiolus would be set in the middle of the series, with no link in 
either direction. The true second generation of the year, in Virginia, is Neg¬ 
lecta, appearing in June. Pseudargiolus is an interpolated spring generation, the 
first in the year of its series. Its second comprises a part of the few butterflies 
which fly between July and October. If these late butterflies were suppressed, 
Pseudargiolus would stand as a distinct species, with no trace of its relation to the 
other forms. So if anywhere to the northward the winter form was suppressed, 
Neglecta alone would represent the species, and Mr. Saunders is confident that 
about London, Ont., this is the condition. Prof. Lintner describes Neglecta as- 
appearing in swarms at Centre, N. Y., —as Violacea sometimes does in Virginia, 
but Neglecta never,—“ the air has seemed blue from the myriads,” and as flying 
there, and also in the vicinity of Albany, from middle of May to middle of June; 
while the winter forms have been wholly unknown to collectors till lecently, a 
single example having been taken here and there. These myriads of course are 
from hibernating chrysalids. May at Albany is early spring, and Neglecta comes 
with the first blossoms, just as Violacea in \ irginia comes in April, with the blos¬ 
soms. Neglecta at Albany is the winter form. But two degrees farther south, 
or about New York city, the three primary winter forms abound in early spring. 
On the Pacific coast, the species is represented in part by individuals not dis¬ 
tinguishable from Neglecta, viz., Echo (Fig. 21), but more by Piasus, of which 
Echo is a variety. In southern California there are two generations of the but¬ 
terfly; the first appearing in February and early March, the second last of Apiil 
