NO. 1488. BUTTERFLIES OF BRITISH AMERICA— CARY. 447 



CHLORIPPE, species. 



A large species of Cldorlppe was noted at Fort Chipewyan, June 4, 

 1903, but eluded capture. I had been hunting birds in a shady ravine 

 on the main shore opposite English Island, and late in the afternoon 

 noticed a dark insect flitting back and forth at intervals between a 

 couple of willows which were running sap. Upon a near approach I 

 found it to be a large ChJorlppe^ but further idontitication was impos- 

 sible. The insect greatly resembled C. eJyton. 



0]tlori2>l>e is a southern genus, and has not previously been observed 

 as far north as Athabaska. 



EREBIA FASCIATA (Butler). 



Elwes has recorded several specimens which Mr. Hanbury collected 

 in 1902 at the following Arctic coast localities: Chapman Island, June 

 27; Cape Barrow, June 30; Gray's Bay, July 1; Point Epworth, 

 July 11." 



EREBIA DISCOIDALIS (Kirby). 



A common species in Athabaska and Mackenzie. I collected a 

 specimen at Edmonton, Alberta, as early as May 10, 1903, and on 

 June 12 two more at Smith Landing, Athabasca. In 1904, Mr. Preble 

 found this butterfly at the following localities in the Mackenzie Basin: 

 Fort Simpson, May 20; Fort Norman, June 13; Fort Good Hope, 

 June 21 and 22. 



Nearly all previous observers mention discoldalls. ' White records 

 an ErehJa taken b}^ Richardson on the Arctic coast as follows: ''^ Ilip- 

 parchla n. s. ^ (near 11. discoidaUs)^ Kirhyy^ In 1863, Edwards 

 received about twenty examples from Mrs. Christina Ross, all taken 

 at Fort Simpson.*^ Strecker mentions over a hundred specimens in 

 the collection he received from Geftcken, said to have been collected 

 in the "Athabasca region."'' Frederick Bell collected specimens at 

 Fort Simpson in 1888, according to Doctor Fletcher.' 



This is the common Erehla in the forested region, being replaced on 

 the Barren Grounds by several other species. Kirby based his 

 description of discoidalls upon specimens from Cumberland House, 

 Saskatchewan (latitude 54*^). 



« Trans. Ent. Soc. London, Pt. 3, 1903, p. 239. 



^ Arctic Searching Expedition, II, 1851, p. 362. 



<-• Butterflies of North America, III, 1897 [p. 255]. 



f'Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, 1872, p. 132. 



«Ann. Kept. Can. Geol. Surv., Ill (new ser.), Pt. 1, App. IV, (1889), p. 231B. 



