1,0 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



76. C. pelidne, Bd. Apparently fairly common in the spruce in July. 



Dr. Holland writes : " Your specimen agrees positively, point for 

 point, line for line, and dot for dot, with a specimen labeled in the 

 Edwards collection as C. interior £ , coming from Godbout Bay, 

 though both this specimen and yours strike me as being somewhat 

 off type." Dr. Skinner says : " It comes nearest to interior, or 

 perhaps eriphyle." Mr. Ehves says it " belongs to the pelidne 

 group." He writes later concerning the species: "Some forms 



are locally constant Yours is near, and perhaps runs 



into, christina." It certainly is near christina, but, so far as I 

 have observed, remarkably constant in colour, which christina is 

 not. I have not often had a chance of taking it, and have only 

 two ? J , very much alike, and differing from any o christina 

 that I have taken nearer home. The first time I took the species 

 I took % % flying with pelidne £ $ , and submitted both sexes 

 to Mr. Elwes, who questioned their unity. As I saw no christina 

 $ o* on that day, I believed them to be one ; but the subsequent 

 receipt of the two above-mentioned ° °. from Mr. Hudson con- 

 vinces me that the original 5 $ taken were not of this species. 



Yar. Skinner 7, Barnes., = C minisni, Bean, MSS. Common 

 at Laggan. I took $ $ in fine condition there on August 8th 

 and 10th of last year, between 5,500 and 7,000 feet, but saw 

 none either higher or lower. It may certainly be a small and 

 locally constant var. of pelidne, but I find it hard to associate it 

 thus closely with what I have as that species. The discal spot on 

 primaries in all my minisni is more narrowly linear, the marginal 

 band narrower, and secondaries and basal area, as well as the 

 under side, more widely sprinkled with black scales. 



77. C. nastes, Bd. Laggan, above timber (Bean). I was fortunate in 



taking four £ $ and two ° ° of this species, in fine condition, 

 during my short stay at Laggan last August. I met with it at 

 about 7,000 to 7,600 feet, on Slate Mountain, on August 8th. 

 Two days later I took a fine £ on " Saddle Back," near Lake 

 Louise, flying with minisni. 



78. Parnassius smintheus, Doub.-Hew. Mr. Hudson took over a 



dozen specimens, both sexes, on July 12th, 1896, at Lineham's 

 lower camp on Sheep Creek, where he says it was abundant. It 



