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OX A COLLECTION OF BUTTERFLIES MADE BY MR. JOHN MILNE 

 IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



BY H. W. BATES, F.L.8. 



Mr. John Milne, during his above mentioned journey round New- 

 foundland last year, collected sixteen species of Diurnal Lepidoptera. 

 No notice of the productions, in this department, of this part of 

 North America having, as far as I am aware, been published, I have un- 

 dertaken at his request to name the species, and draw up the present 

 list of them. It will be seen that the butterfly-fauna of New- 

 foundland offers some peculiarities (as compared with that of the 

 United States), and further additions wdll be looked for with great 

 interest. That many more inhabit the island cannot be doubted, inas- 

 much as the present collection contains no Colias or Hesperiidae, and 

 furnishes much fewer species than the more northerly region of 

 Labrador, concerning which an excellent paper was published by 

 Moeschler in the Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift. 



Papilio Turnus, Lin. Both sexes, agreeing closely in size, colours, 

 and markings with specimens from Nova Scotia and West Canada, 

 but differing much from others found in Southern Atlantic States, 

 being smaller and paler, and having much narrower black borders to the 

 hind- wings : 



Found in the latter half of July at Bonavista Bay and in other 

 localities, about long grass on the borders of rivers. 



Papilio Irevicauda, Saunders, in Packard's Guide, p. 278. Many 

 examples, nearly all females, from Betts Cove and Terra Nova River. 



Although this is evidently only a local form of P. Asterius, it 

 differs so much in form, as well as in markings, that it well deserves 

 a distinctive name. The single male brought home by Mr. Milne is 

 too much shattered for compai-ison, but the ? shows a strongly rounded 

 outer border to the fore-wing, and the caudal lobe of the hind- wing 

 is not more than half the length of the same part in the ordinary 

 Asterius of the Atlantic States. 



JPieris oleracea, Harris ; var. frigida, Scudder, Proc. Best. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. (18G1), p. 181. The common species of Pieris of New- 

 foundland. Mr. Milne's numerous specimens are from St. Heliers, 

 Bonavista, St. John's, and other localities. As a rule, they are more 

 strongly marked with black than the oleracea of the States, not only 

 along the veins, both above and beneath, but at the bases of the wings 

 and apex of fore-wing. Some females are scarcely distinguishable 

 from the dark-veined variety hryonice of the European P. napi, and 

 have the dusky sub-discal spots of that species ; in no male, however, 

 have I remarked the sub-discal spot. 



