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Vol. XXIX. LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1897. No. 11. 



NOTES ON THE LIFE HISTORY OF COLIAS INTERIOR, Scud. 



KY H. H. LYMAN, MONTREAL. 



When in New York, towards the end of May, 1894, I paid a visit to 

 Mr. B. Neumoegen, who, though sufferiiig considerably from the fatal 

 disease to which, after a brave fight, he finally succumbed, received me 

 kindly, and after a short conversation sent me upstairs to Mr. Doll to get 

 the names of certain species which I had brought for determination. 



In one of the drawers which Mr. Doll showed me I found several 

 specimens of Colias Interior, one being of a very rich shade of colouring, 

 almost orange, in fact. Asking where they came from, I learned that 

 they had been taken the previous season at Camp Lou, on Osgood Pond, 

 in the Adirondacks, and I immediately determined, if possible, to get 

 eggs. Early in July I wrote to Mr. Neumcegen to ascertain the best time 

 to be on the happy hunting-grounds and for any suggestions, and received 

 a post card, dated 9th July, written on a railway train, and the last com- 

 munication I received from him, telling me that then was the right time. 

 I was unable to go just then, but on the 20th I left by the evening train 

 over the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railway, and reached Paul Smith's 

 hotel shortly after 9 o'clock. The 21st it rained all day till late in the 

 afternoon, but the 22nd was fine, and I soon had 2 5 9 of Interior caged 

 for eggs. For the cage I used a tomato can filled with such soil, chiefly 

 sand, as I could find, and in it I placed two species of Vaccinium, two 

 willows, Kalmia Augustifolia, Trifolium Stoleniferum. The following day 

 I took five more females and two males. One (^ Philodice was taken 

 courting a 9 Interior, and was confined with the $ ? to see if it would 

 copulate with one of them, but it did not do so, so far as I observed. 

 Three of the freshest $ $ were killed for the cabinet, but the remaining 

 four with I ^ Interior and the ^ Philodice were kept caged. The 24th 

 was again rainy, and in the afternoon I left for home, carrying my 

 menagerie with me. On the 26th July the plants were changed to a 

 flowerpot of larger size than the tomato can, and the following species of 

 plants were added : Melilotus Officinalis and Alba, Amphicarpasa Monoica, 



