238 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



and four, and two on joint thirteen. The body is covered by many small 

 elevated spots producing short white hairs. Venter greenish, mottled 

 with black or brown, Length about 30 mm. 



Chrysalis suspended by the cremaster, depressed behind the thorax, 

 the thoracic process short and pointed, tapering anteriorly in a ridge, wing 

 cases prominent, abdominal segments small and quickly rounded, cre- 

 master flattened and hooked to the button of while silk, a pointed eleva- 

 tion at each eye, and at the base of the wing cases. Three rows of dorsal 

 pointed elevations on the abdominal segments with two points on the 

 thorax, touched with white, and two large and two small white spots in 

 the depression behind the thorax. Color of chrysalis wood brown, 

 minutely mottled with whitish or darker to black. The caterpillar forms 

 itself a hollow in which it lives, by spinning up one or more leaves of the 

 food-plant. The length of each stage is about four days, and the pupa 

 state lasts about two weeks. In its early stages the insect cannot be 

 distinguished from Pyrameis cardui. 



Larvae from Los Angeles Co., California. 



BUTTERFLIES AT QU'APPELLE, ASSA. 



BY HENRY SKINNER, M. D., PHILADELPHIA. 



The following is a list of butterflies caught near Fort Qu'Appelle, North- 

 west Terr., by Mrs. Cora E. Rose and her two little sons. Mrs. Rose 

 describes the locality as follows : — " Those sent were all caught within a 

 radius of about half a mile, in the territory of Assiniboia, thirty miles 

 north of an old Hudson Bay Post called Fort Qu'Appelle, and distant 

 west from Winnipeg some three hundred and twenty-five miles ; the only 

 foliage is willow and poplar." 



Papilo rtitulns, Bdl. 



Fieris protodice, Bdl. 



Colias Christina, Edws. A number of males and one female, the 

 orange form. 



Colias philodice, Godt. 



Colias Saidderii, Reak. 



Colias etirytheme, Bdl. A number of fine males and one female. 



Lycena Scudderii, Edws. Male and female. 



Chrysophanus helloides, Bdl. Male and female. 



