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round Gleichen, and from there to the Red Deer River northeast. It is 

 either very playful or pugnacious, I am not sure which, and a great 

 pest when one is after other small species. It darts up to another species 

 on which the collector has his eye, goes through a kind of lightning three- 

 card-trick performance for about a second, then darting as rapidly away, 

 so distracts the eye as to confuse the beholder's power of distinction. 



93. Nisoniades persius^ Scud. — Dr. Dyar refers my form to afranius^ 

 Lint., but Dr. Skinner, confirming his previous identification as persius, 

 says : '•' Afranius is at best only a local race oi per sins ^ 



Additional Rhopalocera. 



570. Melitcea acasius, Edw. — Rather common locally on the Red 

 Deer River bottom, north-east of Gieichen. In coulee bottoms. End 

 June to mJddle July. I had this species for some years under the name 

 palia, and have probably sent specimens out as such. 



571. Fhyciodes nycteis, Doubl.-Hew. — Recorded from Edmonton in 

 Skinner's Catalogue. It was recorded thence by Geddes. 



572. — Grapta siienus, Edw. — Mrs. Nicholl records the capture of 

 t\Vo specimens at Banff, Aug. 30th, 1904. I have a specimen from Van- 

 couver, received as such, and agreeing with Holland's figures, though 

 darker, but have seen nothing like it from Alberta. 



573. G. progne, Cram. — This seems to b-^ less uncommon than the 

 other Graptas occurring liere, though I had not recognized it when I pub- 

 lished my list. My dates are from Aug. iSlh to May 29th, but like the rest 

 of the genus here, it seems to go into hibernation early and come out late. 

 I bred a specimen 1 ist fall from a full-grown larva found in a water tank, 

 where I think it had dropped from a willow bush. 



574. Pyrameis caryce, Hbn. — Mr. Willing assures me that he has 

 taken this species in Alberta. I am not aware that I ever saw it. 



575. Limenitis archippus, Cram. — Two fine males by the side of the 

 C. P. R. track at Gleichen station, on July iith, 1904. 



576. Neominois Ridmgsii, Edw. — My first acquaintance with this 

 species was with a pair presented to me by Mr T. N. Willing, from 

 Macleod, July 2nd and 8th, 1904. Mr. Arthur Hudson next came across 

 it on a high dry knoll near the edge of the upper bench on the north side 

 of the Red Deer, about 50 miles north-east of Gleichen, on July 5th, 1905. 

 We subsequently found it, on that day and the next, in several similar 

 situations, within a mile or two of the same spot. We took both sexes. 

 It appeared to be very local, and by no means common. I also took a 



