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females only at hand and without a history of the specimen it would be 

 easy to mistake the new species for the California variety, except for the 

 fact that the s. t. line is unusually sharp ?.nd strongly dentate in com- 

 parison with the vague suffused markings seen in occidentalis. Other 

 structural details of the legs and of the palpi do not differ from the usual 

 form found in the genus, and in the male we have that same peculiar 

 formation of the anterior femur which I described in my monograph of 

 the Deltoids and figured. Concerning the life-history of the species and 

 the habits of the larv?e I refer to Hubbard's articles on the insect guests 

 of the Florida land tortoise published in Insect Life, Vol. VI., No. 4, 

 1894, p. 305-306, and in Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. III., No. 5, 1896, 

 P- 299. 



MANITOBA BUTTERFLIES. 

 I have a further addition to make to my list of the Butterflies of 

 Southern Manitoba, as the result of last summer's work. As in Africa of 

 old, something new seems to be constantly turning up. The scarcity of 

 grass in the usual prairie hay meadows drove me into a small " muskeg " 

 of a few acres in extent, in a corner of the river valley, about a mile from 

 my house. It is a veritable Serbonian bog in ordinary seasons — the 

 grave of many a bison and wapiti, judging from the remains, in days 

 gone by, and which has of recent years taken toll from time to time from our 

 domestic herds. In it, at the end of July and the beginning of August, 

 I took three or four specimens of Thecla acadica, and the same number of 

 ChrysophaJius ihoe, and also a variety of C. helloides, smaller and more 

 faintly marked than any I have taken before — the large form being 

 generally abundant in certain places. 



Butterflies were not plentiful last year, especially during the early 

 summer, through the dry, cold weather that prevailed, but I made one 

 notable addition to my collection. For some years I have been unable 

 to do any " sugaring" during the harvest season, but this year I managed 

 to paint a few trees, with the result that during the day time they were 

 visited by several Vanessa Cali/ornica, of which I took three 5 s, my 

 previous captures being ^ s, and saw several more. Grapta progfie 

 and comma — both varieties of the latter — also were attracted by the trees, 

 and a very few atalanta, but nothing else. 



At night, 1 took several species I have not before seen, and I 

 particularly noted the absence of Catocalas. Relida and unijuga used 

 to be a positive nuisance, frightening all other species away. I'his year I 

 did not see a single unijuga, only a few relida and briseis, but several 

 conaimbens, which used to be very scarce. 



E. F. Heath, Cartwright, Man, 



