188 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



and two females of the species known as occidentalism from Wellington, B. 

 C. They seem to differ from some of my specimens only in having rather 

 more of the basal shading of black scales above, except that I happen to 

 possess no Calgary females of that exact shade of colour, viz., greenish- 

 yellow. A seiies of thirty Calgary females of the occideiitalis-christina 

 group are either orange, yellow or greenish-white, and scarcely any two 

 even nearly alike in eilher colour or markings. Of much the same colour 

 as the Wellington females are a few I took at Windermere, July loth to 

 13th. These, with the males from the same place, are like my No. 75a in 

 the very restricted area of the basal shading, but have a rather smaller 

 discal spot on secondaries, which, in the males, shows through scarcely 

 darker than the ground colours above. By these characters they are, 

 without much doubt, identical with a species of which I have two pairs 

 from Osoyoos, B. C, and a male from Pullman, Wash., which Mr. Elwes, 

 Dr. Barnes and Dr. Fletcher all tell me are emilia. The male border is 

 narrower than in most Calgary specimens of the group, in which, however, 

 it varies much, even in orange ckrisitna, as does also the size and colour 

 of discal spots in my 75a series. That this includes another species, 

 eini/ia, is not impossible, but I do not know how to pick them out. Dr. 

 Fletcher's likening the male to a large interior in his notes on Mrs. 

 Nicholl's 1904 list, will not do, as in that species the band is not cut 

 through by yellow veins, as seems usually the case with emilia.^ 



76. This species is C. interior, Scud., and agrees with specimens 

 from Nepigon, Ont. 



77. C. Jiastes, Bd. — Dr. Skinner, in telling me that Streckeri — 

 erroneously listed by him in his Cat. Supp. i as a species — was described 

 by Grumm Grohimailo from Laggan specimens as a var. of nastes, adds : 

 "As far as I can tell there is little, if any, difference between the Alberta 

 nastes and those found in Europe/'' I found the males just coming out 

 on Mt. Piran on July 20th, 1904, on shaly A. Alberta ground. All I 

 took that day were over 8,000 feet. Mrs. Nicholl reports it common at 

 very high levels on every mountain she explored in the Rockies that year. 

 She writes (under nastes) : " It varies considerably, and I think that 

 those from Mt. Assiniboine, the most southern point at which I found 

 them, are paler and yellower than the more northern specimens." 



78. Parnassius smintheus, Doub.-Hew. — My Laggan capture was a 

 male, on what I have referred to as " Slate Mountain," three miles north- 

 east (I wrote south-east in error) of Laggan station, on Aug. 8th, 1901, a 



