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of all of these. One beautiful form which frequently occurs has an 

 irregular discal dark blotch of confluent spots on the secondaries beneath 

 as in hicia, and the clear marginal and submarginal spots of violacea. 

 This form Mr. Cockle, who has collected this butterfly for several years 

 and has been much interested in it, considers to be most typical of the 

 variety. In all forms of this Kaslo Blue the eye-like spots of the marginal 

 band are distinct, a character in which it differs from piasns. Some 

 specimens beneath show the marginal band of marghiata either with or 

 without the confluent discal patch. 



Described from i6 specimens (8 males and 8 females). Types of 

 both sexes deposited in the U. S. National Museum. 



Pamphila Manitoboides, n. sp. (The Nepigon Skipper.) 

 In the annual report of the Entomological Society of Ontario for 

 1 888 I described the larva of a Pamphila belonging to the comma group, 

 which Dr. Scudder and I had taken in small numbers in the first week of 

 July at Nepigon, Ont., north of Lake Superior. In subsequent years I have 

 found the butterfly as early as the last week in June. In lovv lands the 

 favourite flower visited seems to be Meftefisia pa?ticulata, but on the 

 higher rocky ridges along the Nepigon river this skipper seems to confine 

 itself almost entirely to the inconspicuous white flowers of Poteiitilla 

 iridentata. It is extremely shy, active and difficult to catch. 



This species is rather smaller than P. Afanitoba, but the markings of 

 both sexes above are very similar to those of that species, although the 

 colours are different. In Maiiitoboides the upper side is a rich tawny- 

 brown with a wide very dark brown margin. None of the spots at apex 

 of the prmnaries are hyaline, and the bases of both primaries and 

 secondaries show a much less broken field of brown colour than is the 

 case in Manitoba. The male and female above are perhaps rather more 

 like the figures of P. Colorado, given by Dr. Scudder on plate X., fig. 17 

 and 18, in his paper " On the Species of the Lepidopterous Genus 

 Pamphila,'^ in the Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 

 II., Part III., Number IV. (1874), except that the tone of colour is of a 

 more fuscous brown and the border is darker, giving more contrast with 

 the light shades. 



Unde?- side. — A bright tawny brown in fresh specimens, primaries 

 much darkened at the base. The whole tone of colour of the under side, 

 including the dark shade at the base of primaries, and the washed-out 

 appearance of all spots, both on primaries and the mesial band of 



