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This was notably the case last winter which was a remarkably open one. It may be that 

 the larvjB have susceptibilities and powers of reservation which enable them to accommo- 

 date themselves to seasonal variations. It remains to be shewn whether the remaining 

 stages of the backward larvie are hastened in the Spring, that the imagros may present 

 themselves at the usual period, or whether the larval condition of the insect is sometimes 

 prolonged over a second season. Larvjc that I have reared to their full growth this season 

 becam« sluggish in the first week of October, and by the middle of the month were quite 

 torpid. 



Thecla L^ta, Edw. A specimen of this pretty little butterfly was taken in May, a 

 few years ago, by Mr. Winn, on Beloeil Mountain. 



Thecla Titus, Fah. On the 22nd of July last I had a stroke of good fortune. 

 During thirty years of close observation of the insect world in this Province, I had not 

 seen half a dozen specimens all told of T. Titus ; but on this day, in a neglected meadow 

 near St. David's, 1 came upon quite an assembly of the insects. They were fluttering 

 about over the Ha wkweed blossoms, and I captured a full series of very perfect specimens. 



Ohrysophanus Epixanthe, Dd. This is a swamp insect, and appears in the Gomin 

 about the 23rd of July. I have not met with it in any other spot in Quebec Province. 

 It appears in goodly numbers and lasts about a fortnight. It is not difficult to catch, for 

 if the collector gets between it and the sun, the light shining upon the silvery under surface 

 of the wings renders its flight very perceptible. 



LYCiENA CouPERi, Grote. On June 13th of last year I took on the Heights of Levis 

 a lovely specimen of this charming insect. I had seen two of the kind the year before, 

 but was unable to capture them. This year the insect has not come under my notice. 

 On the upper side its wings are smalt blue with dark borders and white fringes. The 

 under side, brownish grey set with white ringed, black dots, reminds one of the Euglish 

 P. Acis. 



Carterocephalus Mandan, Edw. Under the name of the " Chequered Skipper " 

 [Pamphila Pansicus (?)], Gosse in the Canadian Naturalist records the capture at 

 Compton, P. Que., of this pretty butterfly. I have in my cabinet a specimen taken near 

 Fort No. 2, Levis, in 1889 by Mr. Robert Maxwell^ a promising young entomologist 

 whose early death is to be lamented. On June 16th of this year Mr. Hanham took a 

 specimen in good condition in a meadow near Bergerville. It was fl.itting low down 

 amidst the stalks of herd's-grass. Mandan very closely resembles the European Pan- 

 iscus in color and markings; but ir is a smaller insect. Morris gives the expansion of 

 wings of PanisGus at " about an iiiCti and a quarter." My specimen of Mandan has an 

 expansion of one inch only. Its contour too is different — more trim and slender. 



Pamphila Manitoba, Scudder. As this pretty skipper was taken some years ago 

 by Mr. Couper, at Rivieredu-Loup en has, only 116 miles from Sou tii Quebec and on the 

 same side of the river, I have been expecting its advance for some time. On the 9th of 

 September I captured my first specimen near Fort No. 2, Levis. On the 16th of the 

 same month I took another, and on the 19th a third. The insect appears after the other 

 skippers have vanished. I netted my specimens as they were reposing on the blossoms of 

 Gnaphalium. A few days afterwards the insect was found in abundance by Mr. Hanham 

 at a spot on the other side of the river, nine miles north from Quebec. As this is the 

 only skipper we have in Quebec Province having the under sides of the hind wings sage 

 green with two irregidar rows of white patches, it can easily be distinguished. 



Pamphila Metacomet, liar. I have two female specimens of this (with us) rare 

 insect. They were taken on the Heights of Lavis. In color they are of a sober brown 

 and the primaries have a dark transverse streak on the upper side. 



I have one specimen each of Pamphila Egeri^met, Scud., and Amblyscirtes 

 Samoset, Scud., taken by myself in the Easter.. Tcv> i.s'ups, and one of the latter taken by 

 Mr. R. Maxwell at Levis. 



The butterflies that with us are extremely " local,' being confined, as far as I know, 

 to one or two places only, are Chionobas Jutta, Hub., Thecla Augustus, Kirby, Thecla 



