THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 57 



PAMPHILA MANITOBA, SCUD., AND ITS VARIETIES. 



BV H. H. LVMAN MONTREAL. 



In 1874 Mr. Scudder published his paper on "The Species of the 

 Lepidopterous Genus Pamphila " in the Memoirs of the Boston Society 

 of Natural History, in which the following species were described as 

 new : — Nevada, Colorado and Manitoba, and Sassacus ; Ottoe, Juba, 

 Comma of Europe, and Sylvanoides were also treated of. 



None of the descriptions are detailed, but are altogether comparative, 

 pointing out the differences between the closely allied forms, and in the 

 case of Manitoba the comparisons instituted are exclusively with the 

 European Comma. The four specimens, 2 c^ s and 29 s, illustrated, are 

 all from the west of the continent, or rather, I should say, from the west 

 and centre. One specimen was from Lake Winnipeg, one from Colorado, 

 and two from British Columbia. The figures show specimens of which 

 the underside of secondaries is dark greenish or greenish-brown, and 

 with considerable variation in the prominence or restriction of the 

 markings. 



Though no figure of any eastern specimen is given it is stated in the 

 text that the species had been taken at Riviere du Loup by Mr. Couper. 



Since then it has been repeatedly taken on the Lower St. Lawrence 

 by other collectors at Cacouna and Riviere du Loup, Metis, and even as 

 far as Gaspe by myself in 1888. 



The form found on the Lower St. Lawrence is very uniform in colour 

 and has the outer third of the underside of the forewings and the whole 

 of the underside of the hindvvings, with the exception of the inner margin 

 and hind angle, of a dark brown colour, though occasionally with a slightly 

 greenish tinge. 



In 1890, on returning east from a trip over the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway, I stopped for a day at Regina, the date of my visit being August 

 5tb, and as usual devoted a good part of the day to collecting Lepidop- 

 tera. Among other things, I collected a good series of males of a 

 Pamphila of the Manitoba group, which was new to me, but only 

 succeeded in securing one female, it apparently being a little early for 

 that sex. During October of that year I paid a tlying visit to New York 

 and Boston, taking a few specimens with me for comparison, among them 

 a specimen of this skipper, which I showed to Mr. Henry Edwards, who 



