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heard from him with pleasure that he is going to give a 

 number of varietal forms in the new volume now being 

 pubUshed ; the plates will be for the most part figured 

 from examples captured by me in 1883-4.) 

 C. Scudderii, Reak. 



% Slow of movement, like Christina, and easily captured. 



C. Occidcntalis, Scud, including southern form Chrysojnelas, Hy. 

 Edw. 



A lively insect, only taken when the sun was hottest and the 

 day brightest. 



C. Edivardsii, Behr. 

 No notes taken. 



C. Alexandra, Edw. 



^ very lively, short flights ; % not observed. 



C. Eurytheme, Boisd. 

 Winter form Ariadne, Edw. 



" Keywaydin, Edw. 



All the different forms of this insect are the liveliest I came 

 across in the North West Territories. 



C. Hagenii, Edw. 



Very like the above, and almost impossible tc catch on the 

 wing, from the zig-zag movement in flying, and its loiig 

 flights, often flying high in the air. Was taken in 1886 by 

 me, at Kakabeka Falls, Lake Superior, 

 C. Philodice, Godt. 

 C. Interior, Scud. 



Apparently a lazy insect ; easy of capture. Very few taken in 

 1883 and 1884. 



C. Elis, Streck. 



$ has a remarkably short flight, dropping suddenly to the 

 ground, getting itself -entangled amongst the grass and 

 fohage ; not alighting, as most Coliads do, where, they can 

 be seen, on a leaf or on a flower. 

 C. Elis is a new species described by Mr. Herman Strecker, after my 

 return from the Rocky Mountains, in 1884. At present nothing is defi- 

 nitely known about the male of this species, although two forms of the 



