34 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Anticosti and that of the Labrador coast* Yet Mr. Saunders states 

 (April 30th, 1873) "that he saw one of my Anticosti specimens at Mr. 

 " Mead's, in New York, but did not feel at all satisfied that it was identi- 

 " cal with his breincauda. Polyxenes is Scudder's new name for asiet'ias^ 

 " but he (Scudder) does not regard brevicauda now as identical with it." 



I have tried to obtain a specimen of the Newfoundland Papilio, and 

 communicated with a gentleman residing at St. John's, Newfoundland, 

 asking him to procure specimens of this swallow-tail butterfly for me. He 

 says : "In my opinion it is very rare in this district. During the last 

 " three summers I have seen but one specimen, and some of my 

 " friends here confirm the opinion regarding its rarity." That he has 

 reason to believe that in other parts of the Island it is more abundant,, 

 as he has heaid of it at Cod Roy, on the western coast, and Notre 

 Dame Bay, in the north of the Island. He adds " that a Halifax 

 ^' Entomologist has been enquiring for it on the south coast of the Island 

 " for some time, without success." 



I am confident that it becomes scarce as we proceed down the 

 south coast of Labrador, towards the Straits of Belle Isle. The true 

 habitat of the Papilio (specimens of which I gave Rev. Mr. Innes in 

 1867) is the Island of Anticosti, where it occurs more abundantly thaa 

 in Labrador or Newfoundland. It is met with occasionally at Mingan, 

 but more commonly at the mouths of rivers east of Seven Islands. 



The description in " Packard's Guide " does not exactly correspond 

 with the external markings of the Anticosti specimens, and I candidly 

 state that I have never seen a butterfly whose general features are more 

 uniform than in that of the latter Island. 



Mr. Edwards, of W. Virginia, states that it is not related to asterias, 

 but to Diachaon and zolicaon. In a letter from him, dated August, 1873, he 

 thinks that the Anticosti Papilio is undoubtedly brevicauda, vSaunders, 

 whose description was taken from a single ^ , and the fulvous prevailed 

 remarkably in the yellow spots. That the description of breincauda fits 

 one of the Anticosti ^ exactly. He points out, however, wherein the 

 Anticosti Papilio differs notably in two respects from inac/iaon, or the 

 American representative of that, viz., P. Aliaska, Scudder, and from 

 zolicaon. ist — the hind wings are black, while in the others from base to 



* The specimen Mi\ Innes gave me was from Newfoundland. He did not show 

 me Mr. Couper's specimens. — Ed. C E. 



