1869.1 405 IScudder. 



flights, never singly. Many of the specimens were brought to him 

 by the Indians, which accounts for their j^oor condition. 

 ' Erebia discoidalis Kirby. 



Five specimens taken just above the Ramparts, June 15th and 

 16th, a little above Nowikakat, June 5th, and at Nulato in the latter 

 part of May. 



Erebia Maneinus Doubl. 



Five specimens taken at Nulato, May 20th, and at the lower end 

 of the Ramparts, June 7th and 10th. 



Grapta gracilis Gr. and Rob. 



A single worn 9 of this species was taken June 6th, on the Yukon 

 River, fifty miles above Nowikakat; the 9 has never been noticed be- 

 fore, but I have other specimens from Lake Winnipeg and New 

 England; it resembles the 9 of G. Fatmus ^dw., more than that of 

 G. C-argenteum. 



Melitsea Helvia nov. sp. 



Upper surface blackish fulvous, covered with dull white and fulvous 

 spots, mostly arranged in transverse rows. Primai-ies with a marginal 

 row of rovmdish fulvous spots; next to it two curved rows of dull 

 whitish spots, curved apically on the upper half and basal ly on the 

 lower half of the wing; the spots of the inner of these two rows* are 

 larger, and those of the outer are smaller than those of the marginal 

 row; a minute fulvous double spot just beyond the tip of the cell, and 

 beyond this two short transverse bands of three spots each, the inner 

 whitish, the outer of mixed fulvous and whitish spots; three spots in 

 the cell, — the inner of mixed whitish and fulvous scales, the next 

 fulvous, and the outer whitish boi'dered with fulvous; between the 

 median and submedian two whitish spots. Secondaries with four 

 rows of spots on the outer half of the wing, following each other in 

 close succession; the outer marginal row is composed of fulvous spots, 

 the next of whitish, the third of fulvous, and the inner of obscure 

 whitish mixed with some fulvous spots ; besides these two or three 

 obscure fulvous and whitish spots in the cell; outer edge of both 

 wings black, the fringe Avhite, dark fuscous at base, interrupted with 

 fuscous at the nervule tips. Beneath cinnamon brown, deeper in tint 

 on the secondaries; primaries with a submarginal row of whitish 

 lunules edged apically with black, and followed basally by a broad 

 band of whitish spots, broken and obscui-e on the under half of the 

 wing; markings of the cell obscurely repeated. Secondaries with a 

 submarginal row of very large white lunules edged with black, and a 



