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Vol. XXXIII. 



LONDON, JUNE, 1901. 



No. 6 



PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MACRO LEPIDOPTERA 



ALBERTA, N.-W. T. 



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BY F. H. WOLLEY DOD, CALGARY. 

 ( Continued from page 42. ) 

 Danais archippus, Fab. A few migrants seen almost every year. 

 June. Have never seen a locally-bred specimen. 



Euptoieta claudia, Cram. Two specimens on Pine Creek, July, 1897, 

 and June, 1900; probably migrants. Lacombe, June 29th, 1900 

 (Gregson). 



Argytmis cybele, Fab. Not common ; very rare in some seasons. In 

 the hills, July and August; Lacombe, June 29th (Gregson). Mr. 

 Elwes has seen this form and considers it correctly named. It 

 resembles cybele that I have from Iowa, but is slightly smaller. 



3a. [A. leto, Behr. Recorded by Geddes from Macleod. The record 

 may perhaps refer to cybele.] 



4. A. cypris, Edw. Not common. July and August. Whatever may 

 be the correct name for this species, it is certainly distinct from, 

 anything else here listed. Dr. Fletcher calls it cypris, and Mr. 

 Elwes says : "It does not agree exactly with any species, but is 

 something between lais, halcyone and atlanlis." Lais certainly 

 resembles it more closely than anything else occurring near 

 Calgary. I have a $ , sent me by Dr. Fletcher, labeled aphrodite 

 (but without data), which agrees well with my cypris, though the 

 black markings in his specimen are slightly heavier. Neither 

 bear any more resemblance to aphrodite, sent me from Bing- 

 hampton, N. Y., than they do to cybele. Mr. Snyder treats 

 cypris as the Western form of aphrodite, and it seems probable 

 that the aphrodite recorded from Edmonton, in Northern Alberta, 

 refers to the form I take here. Mr. Gregson tells me that he takes 

 a form at Lacombe which Dr. Fletcher says is " near cypris, but 



