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NOTES ON A FEW BUTTERFLIES FROM THE YUKON. 



Last April I received from Mr. Lachlan Gibb a small cardboard box 

 contarning a few specimens of Lepidoptera in a very fragmentary con- 

 dition, which had been sent to him from Dawson, in the Yukon district. 



The most interesting species in the collection is Papilio Machaon, 

 var. Aliaska, Scud., of which there were three specimens. 



The other species are : 



Papilio Turnus, L., four specimens hardly differing from those 

 found in this latitude, but perhaps a trifle smaller. 



Pier is IVapi, var. Venosa, Scud., three specimens. 



Anthocharis Ausonides, Bdv., one specimen. 



Argy?mis Freija, Thunb., one specimen. 



Argynnis Frigga, var. Saga, Kaden, one specimen. 



The only moth in the collection was PJiragmatobia Rubricosa, Harr., 

 one specimen. 



These are the only species which were determinable. The Ant/io- 

 charis agreed with specimens received by me under the name of Creiisa, 

 but, to be sure, I sent it to Mr. Wm. BeutenmuUer, who wrote to me that 

 it was Ausonides. Henry H. Lyman, Montreal. 



HYDRCECIA STRAMENTOSA, GUEN. 

 In response to Mr. Moffat's interesting paper, I would state, since my 

 name is mentioned, that I recollect determining H. stra7nentosa, though 

 rarely, and, I think, for Canadian collectors. The specimen in my collec- 

 tion, now in the British Museum, came, I believe, from Canada. I never 

 remember receiving the species from the West, or regarding it as a 

 specifically Western insect. All the specimens I ever saw of it (they 

 were very few) were from the East. The name is, probably, in Canadian 

 collections on my authority. A. Radcliffe Grote. 



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