ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 69 



ANTICOSTI LEPIDOPTERA. — In Paper XVI of tlie Hull. Bill'. Soe. Mr. Grote describes certain Diurnal Lep. from the Island 

 of Anticosti lie mentions ten species, eight of wliieli he exuiiiined and tno more ((iraptO he heard about, "making ten species in all 

 known from the Island" ; he is however in error, there were in all fourteen, viz.: Pap. Turnus, Pap. var. Anlicostiensis, Pieris Oleracea 

 var C'olias Pelidne var., Colias Philodice, Argvniiis Atlaiilis, Phyciodes Tliaros, GraiJta Comma, (irapta Progne, Vanessa Atalanta, 

 LvcLma Lucia, Lv. ? Penibina, Ly. Scudderii, and Larterocephaliis Panisons. ,,,,,, ii ,i m i i i 



' The examples of P. Tunius, all o' are small, expanding only three inches; the bodies are almost wholly black ; all the black bands 

 of wines heavy ; but little of the blue or grey which is so consiii'cuous on the marginal band on under side of secondaries, iu ordinary 



The Colias Philodice rf' and 9 are in nowise different from those of other districts. 



Colias I'elidne these are peculiar, the c^ and ? both beingentirely lemon yellow on upper and undersurface, without the heavy grey 

 powdering at base of win"s on ui-per side, and of whole under surface of secondaries ; iu all otlier respects they resemble the typical 

 Pelidne of North Laiirador, of which 1 have some twentv examples, among the latter there also occurs rarely a yellow ?, and there 13 

 one instance of a f^ in which the discs of the wings are orange, after the manner of some of the paler examples of C Eurytheme (Ke- 

 wavdin I I thought first these Anticosti Pelidne might be Scudder's C. Interior,* hut that gentleman after inspecting them during a late 

 visit here says they are different, and were iinkiuiwn to him ; hut for my part, I believe them to be nothing more than a form ot C. lel- 

 idne, precisely analogous to that o'f Palaeno.t found in the Alps, in which both c? and ? are yellow, whilst in examples of that species 

 froni all other localities the 9 is always white. ,,.„.,., ^ , <■ 



Giapta Comma.— One c?, small, expanding but I'i inches, differs in nothing else from the common iorm. 



Lvaena Scudderii likewise resembles those from other localities. ,,.,., j. , ,-, ,,-, j r r, 



I suppose by Cvclopides MandanJ Mr. Urote meant Carlerocephalus Paniscus? which is found in the higher latitudes of i-urope, 



^"'of the Lyca-na wliich I believe to he Pembina, but which he described as new and named " Glaucopsyche Couperil Grote," he says 

 " this species difier.s'from Lymhmus and Pembina in having a much broader dark margin to the wings, " &c., on examining ten examples, 

 five r? and five 2 taken bv Mr. Cooper in the two previous summers, I find that all the males are, on upper surface, m all respects 

 exactlv'like Lvgda'mus I cannot find any diHerence whilst examining them side by side ; of the females some are nearly all blue but of 

 much "less hriliiaucy and the border fades insensibly into the blue without any distinct line of separation between the two colours, others 

 have the blue and' dark grev or brown equally divided, and one has the blue restricted to ,1 few basal scales only. Ihe under 

 surfiee of both sexes is paler than in Lvgdamus, but the arrangement of the spots is [irecisely the same, i. e. on primaries a siib-margin.al 

 row'of -ix Miots the one nearest the inner angle sometimes double, a diseal bar or spot. On secondaries an iiregular sub-marginal row 

 of eight sposts the seventh sometimes geminate in such cases making nine in all ; a diseal bar, a spot near costa and another opposite to 

 it within the di-coidal cell, between which and Ihe interior margin is another miiiule spot, these last two are often obsolete, example 

 A r? in my cabinet has all the spots, except these two, almost as large and piipilled as m Lygdainus, B rf' hns all the spots likewi.se, 

 but smaller and the two nearest anal angle of secondaries are without pupils. C c?, all spots ol upper wings pupiUed but small ; sec- 

 r^ndaries have the diseal bar, hut traces of all the other spots are scarcely disccrnable, except on closest examination, when a lew mmiite 

 white points mav be observed, the whole wing looks plain grey with a white ( diseal i mark in middle; the other two males are nearly 

 like B r-f D i all spots as in A r?", well defined and pupilled ; this examiile has the upper surface nearly all bluish. E V, ground 

 colour very dark ' all spots as in the one last described, upper surface dark, blue confined to basal parts. F 9 , spols of primaries large 

 and pupilled, of secondaries small, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh, from costa, have minute black points in centre, this 

 example is small, 1 inch in expanse, and the upper surface is like the ordinary 9 examples of Lvgdamus blue and dark about equally 

 dividend G 9 marked below like F 9 , but is nearly all blue on upper side, and expands 1 3-15 inches. II 9 , spots small those nearest 

 costa ami inner angle, on primaries, almost obsolete, pupils ,pilte small, secondaries have sub-marginal oce It represented by six minute 

 white spots the one nearest the anal angle being wanting, no evidence of black centres, a white disc.alhar; this example comes in 

 appearance'close to L. Pheres.ij but the spots of secondaries are smaller and the ground colour ol wings darker. , , „ i,- r 



I have ei.'ht examples, male and female of a species from the west and north-west, the.se are what I always supposed to be L. remtim. H 

 Edwards they are about the same size, colour and ornamentation as those I have just described from Anticosti and Labrador. Ihe 

 ■^ '- • " . .-. . ■• -.,..1 i..,j ,i„ .,;„i^t the 9 like the darker forms. I will however go into 



brinir mvsell to aescrioe inem as new, ueiicvuij^ lucu, aa a .-^iin ^^, i.."^ i..^,t ..v.... -^ —■ —. * ---- ----■ -- _ r 1 



savs the nine examples that Mr. Grote's description were based upon, included only one male, and "all excepting one female were more 

 or"le"=s rubbed, and Iheir determination was a matter of no small difficulty," and further, "the wings of the male are rubbed so that it is 

 impossible to issert positively that their border was any broader or less well defined than in those specimens from which it was believed 



o be'specifically di.stinct" ; "this can, however, be no excuse for Mr. Grote, for if the specimens were in the desolate condition described, 

 it would have been belter to have left them alone, even if the one great aim of having "Grote" behmd the name did not in this instance 



'obtain." 



*Scudder, Proe. Bost. Nat. Hist. iBoc, p. 108, (1862.) 



tHerr-Sch. Schmett. Eur. I, f. 41, •^2, (1843). r. n ■ r- k 



JC. Mandan, Edwards, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Vol. II, p. 20, (1863), is the same as C. Paniscus, Fabr. 



3Fabr. Svst. Ent., p. 531, (1775). 



IJBoisduval, Ai.n. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 297, (1852). 



1[ Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., p. 22, (1862). , ' -c- . xt . „ n<i7^, 



** Bull. Buff'. Soc, Vol. I, " Notes on the species of Glaucopsyche from Eastern JN. Am. {1SI6). 



t+ Edwards, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc., Phil., (1862). 



tt Boisduval, Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr., p. 300, (1852J. 



il Doubleday, Ent. I, p. 209, (1842). 



