PAPILIO ANTICOSTIENSIS. 11 



Sepondaries have six yellow sub-marginal lunules, the one nearest to anal angle much 

 the smallest; also an inner baud of seven yellow spots, the two nearest the costal mar- 

 gin almost square, the next four oblong, and the last triangular ; between these two macular 

 bauds is a row of spots comjiosed of blue atoms; anal spot, deep fulvous, edged below with 

 yellow, and contains a black pupil ; emarginations yellow ; tails one-fourth of an inch in 

 Jength. 



Under surface dark brown, ornamentation much as above ; outer row of spots on superiors 

 larger than on upper side, paler in color, and more round in form; inner row pale fulvous, 

 margined with light yellow ; on secondaries the centres of the four outer spots between the 

 costa and third median veinlct are fulvous; the spots comprising the inner band are also ful- 

 vous, edged on inner sides with yellow ; a small yellow discal spot ; space between outer and 

 inner bands filled with greyish yellow scales, also a few blue ones nearest the inner band. 



Female. Expands 3J inches. 



The description of the male will apply almn.~t equally mcU to the fonialc, excepting that 

 the ground color is not quite .so dark, the inner bands are much broader and the black pupil 

 in the anal eye, which is round in the former sex, is oblong in this ; the foregoing with the 

 figure in the accompanying plate will, I trust, be sufficient for purposes of identification, for, 

 after all, one good figure will do more towards determining a .species than any quantity of 

 written description however careful. 



Habitat. Fox Bay, Anticosti Island ; Labrador. 



For this species I am indebted to my valued friend Mr. AVm. Coupci-, of Montreal, who 

 took several specimens of both sexes, whilst on a collecting tour last summer, ( 1872,) in the above 

 localities. He says : " when I arrived at Fox Bay, Anticosti, last June it was extremely rare ; 

 and I captured only four specimens in fifteen dayf5, the specimens were fresh on the 20th of 

 June, they generally flew low frequenting the flowers of a species of Wild Pea, which occurs 

 abundantly on the banks of rivers in Anticosti and Labrador. I experienced great difficulty 

 in approaching them with the net ; its flight is rapid and low, extending along the margin of 

 rocky cliffs and in grassy places near the Bay, near tide mark ; I never noticed them in the 

 woods, they ajipearcd to keep entirely within the circuit of the Bay and I remarked the same 

 fact on the Labrador coast, where I also found them hovering about the flowers of the Wild 

 Pea; towards the end of July their strength gives way and if the weather be cool, tattered 

 specimens may bo taken by hand, it is the only species of Papilio, so far noticed by me, either 

 in Anticosti or I^abrador. " 



When I received from frii'ud Coupcr the box of Anticosti Lopid, my first impression as 

 I glanced at its contents was that this species was Asterius and thtit both examples were males 

 at that, but a closer examination soon convinced me to my surprise that the one with the most 

 yellow was a female, I then thought it might be Saunder's P. Brevieauda described in a foot 

 note in Packard's Guide to Entomology, page 246, but on consulting that publication, I 

 found it did not agree with his description in several im)>ortant particulars, in Brevieauda on 

 upper side of primaries the sjiots composing the inner band, with the exception of the one 

 nearest the costa arc fulvous, in my species they are all yellow without the slightest indication 

 of fulvous; on secondaries the spots of inner band are "fulvous from near the middle to the 

 outer edge," in Anticostiensis these spots are entirely yellow; the tails in Brevieauda, as its 

 name would indicate are " very short, scarcely one-eighth of an inch long — not more than 

 half the length of those of Asterius;" in the species I have just described, they are the same 



