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Secondaries liave six yellow sub-marginal lunulcs, the one nearest to anal angle much 

 the smallest; also an Inner band 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 composed 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 

 length. 



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 veinlet arc 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 tilled with greyish yellow scales, also a few blue ones nearest the inner band. 



Female. Expands 3;i inches. 



The description of the male will aj^jly almost equally well to tiic fomaic, 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, 1 trust, be sufficient for purposes of identiticiition, 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. Wm. Couper, of Montreal, who 

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

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

 and I captured only four specimens in fifteen days, the specimens Mere fresii on the 20tli of 

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

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

 in api)roaching 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 tliem in the 

 woods, they appeared to keep entirely within the circuit of the Bay and T remarked the same 

 fact on the Labrador coast, Mhere 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 be taken by hand, it is the only species of Papilio, so far noticed by me, either 

 in Anticosti or J^abrador. " 



When I received from friend Couper the box of Anticosti Lepid, my first impression as 

 1 glanced at its contents was that this species was Asterius and that 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. Brcvicauda described in a foot 

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

 found it did not agree w^ith his description in several important particulars, in Brcvicauda on 

 upper side of primaries the spots composing the inner baud, with the exception of the one 

 nearest the costa are fulvous, in my species they arc 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 Brcvicauda, 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 



