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at Morley*, Alta., my suspicions were aroused, as the locality where Mr. 

 Hudson took the s])ecimen is very like the Morley district, viz., thick 

 spruce and pine timber. To make sure whether the species was Macounii 

 or not, of course, needed a (^ , so I determined to visit the locality this 

 season and work specially for it. On June iSth of this year Mr. Hudson 

 brought me a fine $ of the same species that he had just captured about 

 a mile west of my place (i. e., about ten miles east of the eastern limit of 

 the spruce here), and which, from iis resemblance in size and colour to 

 my Oregon Califorfiica, except for the absence of sex mark, I had not 

 the slightest doubt was Afacoujiii from the moment I saw it. I am gener- 

 ally too busy with other matters to devote more than one day in the week 

 to butterfly catching, and as the spruce district is a far better hunting- 

 ground for various species than the more immediate neighborhood, it is 

 thither that about once a week 1 generally wend my way. Accordingly, 

 on June 19th, Mr. Hudson and myself visited last year's locality together, 

 and succeeded in capturing, amongst other species, one fine $ Macotuiii 

 flying in the thick timber in company withy////'^r. On 26th we took two 

 $ $ and two $ 5 in the same locality, and saw about two more, and 

 noted the fact that it is less partial to the thick spruce than Jutta, as three 

 of the four specimens were taken outside the spruce, one several hundred 

 yards from it, whilst Jutta, though common under cover of the woods, is 

 seldom seen outside. The capture by myself on July 4th of a 9 in fair 

 condition, on the hill-prairie about two miles east of where Mr. Hudson 

 first took it this year, brings me to believe that it must be somewhat widely 

 distributed, though it is certainly far from common. Up to date we have 

 turned up nine specimens in all, and only seen about two more. I can 

 recognize it on the wing at a glance, and its flight being slow and some- 

 what clumsy, it is very easy to net on open ground. Three of the four 

 specimens which I caught myself near the spruce, I disturbed from dead 

 boughs lying on the ground. One of these I followed — I cannot say 

 chased — laboriously over fallen timber for about a hundred yards, the 

 butterfly every now and then settling on a log, and resting with closed 

 wings and a tilt to one side at an angle of about 45" to the log. It al- 

 lowed me every time to come almost within striking distance before it 

 took wing again, and had the nature of the ground permitted me to run a 

 yard it would never have settled twice after I had first seen it. After one 



* There is no doubt as to the identity of the specimens taken at Morley and referred 

 to by Mr. Elwes. There were two males and one female. These were taken by Mr. 

 \V. T. Macoun, and were exhibited by Dr. Fletcher at one of our annual meetings. 



