1,32 ^'E^v ypEciKs, varieties, &c. 



EcDRYAS WlLSONll, Grote, (Oim W.) Proe. Enl. Soc. Phil. II, p. 65, I. 3, (1803). This beautiful species has hitherto only 

 been known by two examples, one in Mus, (.'omp. Zool. at Cambridge and the other, from which the original description and figure 

 were made, in Mus. Am. Ent. Soe. I'hila. It diHers remarkably from the other sjiecies in having pectinated antenna;. 



Hki.iothis Laxul, n. sp. Expands l^^^ inclies. Iliad and body white lightly tinged with sienna or rust brown at basal part 

 of thorax and lips of palagia>. L"]iper surface; primaries white and not very dark rust brown; the ba.sal third is at and near ba.se 

 brown, then while with scattered brown points, then conies a line which extends from costa to inner margin as in Mhyulbsa, Hegia, etc., 

 but not as much bent as in these species; this Jliie is succeeded l)y the median space which is brown and encloses twoconsplcuou-s white spots, 

 the largest is in the discoidal cell, the other halfway between it and the inner margin; the largest of these white spots is joineil exte- 

 riorly by a metallic lead coloured distal spot ; the outer edge of the median space, which is very much produced opposite the discal 

 spot, is succeeded by a wliite line edged outwardly with brown, beyond ibis is again white, then an irregular jagge<l line of brown edged 

 outwardly with white; this is succeeded by the marginal band of bmwii with a row of minute black spots. Fringe white with brown 

 points at tips of vein.s. Secondaries silky while with a very laint brownish submarginal band. Fringe long and white. Under sur- 

 face white with markings of primaries in a manner somewhat faintly repeated on costal and exterior parts. 



Heliothis Glokiosa, n. .sp. Expands 1^, inches. Heail and body above white witJi pale olivaceous shades; beneath white. 

 Antenuie and legs while. Upjier surface ; ]>riiiiaries dull purplish rid and olivaceous, neither of these colours intense, marked some- 

 what after the manner of iJiVutosa and allies. The basal third of wing is purplish and is separated from the median space by a pure 

 white line which widens at the veins thus forming teeth; the median space is olivaceous and encloses a purplish discal spot which 

 latter is iirolonged outwardly to and beyond another while toolluil line which .separates the median from the outer space; the latter is 

 |pin'plish interiorly and olivaceous marginally, the latter colour is more or less at the nervules encroached on by the purple. Fringe 

 light and dark olivaceous. .Secondaries dirty while; a faint discal mark; marginal third of wing broadly shaded with brownish. 

 Fringe white with brown at veins. Under surface ; primaries shining while; fuscous discal spot; a pale crimson shade near apex; 

 a broad fuscous submarginal band. Fringe fuscous and white. Secondaries silky white, a very faint discal mark ; a slight pale 

 crimson tint at apex ; fringe white with fuscous at nervules, which latter colour does not extend to the tcrminalions tliereof. By far 

 the largest, and with the exception of liegia the most beautiful of that group of which Rivulosa is the type. 



EuDRY AS Gloverii, Grote (i'u«ciVrAopteru« G.). Larva. Length ] J inches. Same form as Grafa. (iround colour pale olive 

 green.* Head and legs red, former with some small black spots. First segment red above and also with a number of small black 

 spots. On the sides of all save the lirst and last segments is a transverse rallicr narrow velvet black bar which extends nearly to the 

 middle of the back near which it is w idest, the.se bands <lo not connect dorsally, but the space between them in each segment except the 

 the first and two last is supplied with a short red transverse band : on the next to last segment the black bands are only on the sides; 

 on the back are two parallel red transverse ban<ls, on the first of which are eight and on the second f<iiir small black dots; the anal 

 segment has also some round black dots. On each .■segment, esiHcially dorsally, are a number of very fine dotted black lines. From 

 liead to anus extends a somewhat broad red band. Beneath on each of the fourth, fifth, tenth and eleventh segments is a transverse 

 line formed by an almost connected row of .small brown spots. 



Catocal.v Ulalitme, n. sp. Size and sliape of C i?n6in«onii', Grote, and in position it might stand between that species and 

 C. Desperata, Guen. The lines run njuch as in the lalter, but are not .so plainly distinguishable owing to the whole wing being heavilv 

 dusted w-ith black points, thus obscuring the i)ale ground colour very much more than in Desperata; in the latter there is a suMusion of 

 brown between the Iransvtrse posterior line and the stibnuirginal line, as well as on other parts of the wing; nothing of this is notice- 

 able on the present species ; in many respects it resembles Laa-ymosa, Guen., but is not as dark as that species nor as large ; under surface 

 nearly as in V. Venperuta, but with more tendency to sufliision in the black. Perhaps the best idea 1 can convey of Ululume is by say- 

 ing that were the heavy dark brown shadings which accomiiany the tran.sverse lines and are on other parts of the primaries of Desperaia 

 away, and the whole surtace peppered with black aloms, it would make a fair counterpart of the insect 1 am now hopelessly attempt- 

 ing to describe in some such way that the reader may be able to identify it. 



Mr. Boll also took PniLAMPELUS Linnei, G.-R.,t near San .^ntonia ; 1 formerly received the same species from Mr. Doll, who 

 captured it in east Florida. 



September, 1877. ?.^tAi.^^^ ^w.^U I Vj ? 



ON SOME LEl'lDOi'TEKA FROM THE EEGIONS WEST OF HUDSON'S I5AY, BETWEEN 



THE LATTER AND LAKE ATHABASCA. 



To Mr. Woldemar Geflcken of Stuttgart, Germany, I am indebted for a large nuuiber of Lepidoplera from those regions west of 

 the Hudson's Bay, known as New North and New South AVales, mostly from the latter. This tract of country lies between ^tS^ and 63° 

 N. L., and in common with most parts of British Columbia is a trackless wilderness, traversed only by the native inilians or hunters 

 and those in the interest of the fur trade, and it was only after several years of cea.seless efforts, accompanied by repeated disappointments 

 which would have thoroughly disheartened any one save a true lover of nature, that Mr. Geff'cken at length succeeded in securing con- 

 nections that enabled him to receive from time to time large numbers of examples, though unfortunately not always in the best condition, 

 owing to the lack of proficiency of the collectors employed, who were mostly Indian boys and girls. These siieeies, as will be .seen, are 

 in great measure the same as or forms of those found in N. W. Labrador, though some indigenous to the latter locality, sucJi as Colias 

 Najstes and Arg. Polaris, were not among the collections at various times received. 



Papilio Tbrnts, L. (^?. Examples small, somewhat more heavily marked with black than the United States and Canada 

 examples and agreeing nearly with the description of those from the Island of .\nlicosti (south of Labrador) near top of page 69 of this 

 work. Not uncommon. 



PlERls (Napi) var. Frigida, Scud. A' does not difTer from those fouml in .south west Labrador; i. e., with upper side immacu- 

 late white, and under side of secondaries and apices of primaries yellowish, with veins of secondaries accompanied with brown. Only 

 a few examples received. 



Colias Ecrytheme, Bdl. ^. One example not differing in size or colour from those found in the United States. 



*This description is from an inflated example in which the colour may not have been as vivid as during life. 

 t Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil. V, p. 182, t. Ill, (1865). 



