126 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The type is a unique male in the collection of the U. S. National 

 Museum, exact locality not known. 



The original description for this species was written prior to 1891, 

 but in some way it seems to have escaped publication. My attention was 

 drawn to the matter in 1893, when the species was cited in the catalogue 

 without a reference, but for some reason the omission was not then made 

 good. To entitle the name to recognition in the forthcoming catalogue, 

 it is hereby formally authenticated by description. 



The species should be easily recognizable by its intermediate position 

 between redimicula and versipe/lis, and by the fused ordinary spots. 



NOTES ON LYCiENA SCUDDERII, EDW* 



BY HENRY H. LYMAN, M. A., MONTREAL. 



Writing of this species in his magnificent work on the Butterflies of 

 New England, Dr. Scudder said : 



"This butterfly is double brooded throughout the whole of its range, the first 

 generation making its advent during the last week in May, the females emerging the 

 first week in June, when the males are common. The second brood varies 



considerably in the time of its apparition. Mr. Saunders reports that the first butter- 

 flies appeared one year in London, August 2nd ; while Mr. Lintner took the first at 

 Albany on July 15th, another year found them beginning to fly by the 7th, and one 

 year even found them ' very abundant ' on the 9th. The eggs are doubtless 



generally laid in both July and August, but whether the mature larva or the chrysalis 

 hibernates is unknown. * The caterpillar has been taken in the field only by Mr. 



Saunders, who found it upon Lupinus perenms, Linn. * The European species, 



to which it is closely allied, are reported to feed upon Melilotus, Genista, Lledysarum, 

 Trifolium, Onobrychis and Colutea. Our species feeds with the utmost freedom on 

 Lupinus, * but it must find other food in the high north. Edwards states that it 



also feeds on Ceanothus. * * The history of this butterfly needs to be closely 



followed after August to determine in what condition the insect passes the winter. If 

 in the egg state, * * where is the egg then laid ? " 



The first time I had the pleasure of meeting with this butterfly in 



life, and only a field naturalist knows the pleasure of first seeing in life a 



species familiar in the dried state, was on 10th July, 1S98, during a day's 



collecting at High Park, on the western outskirts of Toronto, where I 



*Read before the Montreal Branch, nth Feb., 1902. 



