60 THE entomologist's record. 



gives an interesting list of the varieties noticed by him in Z. frifolii, 

 and as I have during the last nine years had large numbers of Z. /onicerce, 

 sometimes as many as 800 in a season, I wish to place on record the 

 varieties of this species which I have noticed : — 



1. Upper central spot very large. 10. Semi-transparent form (var. 



2. Two central spots joined. cboracecE, Prest). 



3. All spots just ni contact. 11. Outer or fifth spot very large. 



4. Base of posterior wings orange 12. Black border of posterior wings 



(var. seini-lutcsceus). narrow. 



5. Right posterior wing with a 13. Black border of posterior wings 



pale yellowish tinge. broad. 



6. Two posterior wings orange 14. Left posterior wing with colour 



(var. hitescens). of anterior, viz., a bluish 



7. Two anterior wings abnormally bronze with the usual red 



narrow. spots. 



8. Two anterior wings abnormally 15. Anterior wings greenish in- 



broad, stead of bluish. 



9. Lower central spot very large. — \V. Hewett, York. 



Pyrameis cardui var. minor. — This form (hardly to be called a 

 variety) was indicated from high altitudes in Canad. Enfom., 1890, 57, 

 but the first specimen I found was near Ula, Custer Co., Colorado, 

 7,670 ft. altitude, on the morning of June 26th, 1889. The wing ex- 

 panse of this small specimen is only about 42 mm. If my memory 

 serves me rightly there is a British example of this var. minor in the 

 British Museum collection. — T. D. A. Cockerell, West Cliff, Colorado, 

 U.S.A. March, 1890. 



American varieties of British Lepidoptera. — The notes of mine 

 which have appeared in the first number of the Entoinologisfs Record 

 were written some time ago, and I could now add very considerably to 

 them, while one or two statements may be amended. Thus Alucita 

 montana, which has never been described, is a synonym of hexadactyla, 

 on the best of authority. Parnassius sinhitheus belongs with delius 

 rather than apollo ; in fact, Mr. Elwes regards it as a variety oi delius. 

 However, delius feeds on saxifrage, while the larva of sminfheus, re- 

 cently discovered by Mr. Bruce, feeds on ^edinu stenopetahun, and I 

 believe is not like that of delius, but we shall no doubt have this matter 

 cleared up by Mr. W. H. Edwards in due course. Mr. Edwards wrote 

 me on July 25, 1889, that if Zeller is right in saying that delius larva is 

 just like apollo, then smintheus is distinct, for the siniutheus larvte have 

 lemon-chrome spots. It may be worth while to continue the list given 

 on pp. 13, 14 of American varieties of British species. The following 

 are found in America : — 



Pamphila comma, L. var. catena Stand, is recorded from Labrador. 



P. Colorado, Scud, has been regarded as a variety of comma, and 



under it falls a var. Idaho, Edw. 

 Coeiwnympha iyphoii, Rott. var. ? See Skinner, Canad. Enf., 1889, 



p. 240. 

 Danais plexippus, L. var. fumosus, Hulst. Deep sooty brown taking 



the place of bright fulvous. 

 Pieris rapce var. inimaculata. Skinner and Aaron. ( = immaculata 



Ckll. nom. ant.) Described recently in Canadian Entomologist. 



