ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 69 



ANTICOSTI LEPIDOPTERA— In Paper XVI of llie Bull. Biif. Soc. Mr. Grote describes certain Diurnal Lcp. from the Island 

 of Aiitirosli, lie uicntioiis ten i^iKcies, eifjlit of wliicii lie ex-.iniineil aiul two more ((inipti) lie heard about, "maUing ten species in all 

 known IVuni the Island " ; he is limvever in error, lliere were in all foiirteen. viz. : Pap. Turims, I'ap. var. Anlicostieii!--is, Piei is Oleracea 

 var., (,'olias I'elidne var., < 'oli.is I'liilodiee, Argvnnis Atlantis, Plivciodes Tliaros, Grapta Comma, 'jra|)ta Progne, Vanes.sa Atalanta, 

 Lvca'iia Liieia, I,v. ? Peiiiliina, Lv. Sendderii, and Larieroeeplialns I'aniscus. 



The e.xaniples of P. Tnnins, all ,_^' lire small, e.vpanding only three inches; the. bodies are almost wholly black ; all the black bands 

 of wings heavy ; bnt little of the bine or grey which is so conspiciions on the marginal band on under side of secondaries, in ordinary 

 forms. 



The Colias Philodice (^' and $ are in nowise difl'erent from those of other districts. 



Colias I'elidiic, these are peculiar, the (^ and ? both being entirely lemon yellow on upper and under surface, without the heavy grey 

 powdering at base of wings on upper side, and of whole under surface of secondaries ; in all other respects they resemble the typical 

 Pelidne of North Labrador, of which I have some twenty examples, among the latter there also occurs rarely a yellow 9, and there is 

 one instance of a (5' in which the discs of llie wings are orange, al'ler the manner of some of the [laler examples of C. Eurylheme (Ke- 

 waydin I. I ihougbt lirst these Anticosti Pelidne might be Scndder's (j. Interior,* bnt that gentleman after inspecting them during ii late 

 visit here, says they are dilli-rent, and were unknown to him ; but for my part, I believe them to be nothing more than a form of C. Pel- 

 idne, precisely analogous to that of Palaeno.f found in the Alps, in which both cj and $ are yellow, whilst in examples of that species 

 from all other localities the 9 is always white. 



Grapta Comma. — One (^, small, expanding but lif inches, diflers' in nothing else from the common form. 



Lycicna Scndilerii likewise resembles those from other localities. 



I suppose by Cyclopides MandanJ Mr. Grote meant Carterocephalus Paniscus§ which is foimd in the higher latitudes of Europe, 

 Asia and IS'. America. 



Of the Lycwna. which I believe to be Pembina, but which he de-scribed as new and named " Glaucopsyche Couperil Grote," he says 

 " this species dillers from Lyijduiidis and Pembijia in having a much broader dark margin to the wings, " &c., on examining ten examples, 

 five (J' and five 9, taken by .Mr. Couper in the two previous summers, I find that all the males are, on upper surface, in all respects 

 exactly like Lygdamus, I cannot find any difierence whilst examining them side by side ; of the females some are nearly all blue but of 

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

 have the blue and dark grey or brown equally divided, and one has the blue restricted to a few basal scales only. Tlic under 

 surface of both sexes is paler than in Lygdamus, but the arrangement of the spots is precisely the same, i. e. on primaries asub-niargin.al 

 low of six spots, the one nearest the inner angle sometimes <lnuble, a discal bar or spot. On secondaries an irregular sub-marginal row 

 of eight s[iosts, the seventh sometimes geminate in such cases making nine in all ; a discal bar, a .spot near cnsta and another opposite to 

 it, within the discoidal cell, between which and the interior margin is another minute spot, these last two are often obsolete, example 

 A (J' in my cabinet has all the spots, except these two, almost as large and piipilled as in Lygdamus, B (j' has all the spots likewi.se, 

 but smaller, and the two nearest anal angle of secondaries are without pupils. C (j', all spots of upper wings pupilled, but small ; sec- 

 ondaries have the discal bar, bnt traces of all the other spots are scarcely disccrnable, except on closest examination, when a few minute 

 white points may be observed, the whole wing looks plain grey with a white { discal ) mark in middle; the other two males are nearly 

 like B (J'. D 9i !>" spots as in A r?, well defined and pupilled ; this example has the upper surface nearly all bluish. E 9> ground 

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

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

 e.xaniple is small, 1 inch in expanse, and the u]ipcr surface is like the <irdinary 9 examples of Lygdamus, blue and dark about equally 

 divided, tj 9 marked below like F 9 ,''"< is nearly all blue on upper side, and expands 1 .3-16 inches. H 9) spots small, those nearest 

 costa and inner angle, on primaries, almost obsolete, pupils quite small, secondaries have sub-marginal ocelli represented by si.x minute 

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

 appearance close to L. Phercs,|| but the spots of secondaries are smaller and the ground colour of wings darker. 



I have eight examples, male and female of a species from the west and north-west, these are wdiat I always supposed to be L. Pembina, T[ 

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

 upper surface of males are like the preceding, perhaps a shade more towards vi(det, the 9 I'l^e the darker forms, I will however go into 

 a few details concerning the under surface ; A rj' is marked like A (J' of preceding species and Lygdamus. B (J^ and C (j' the same, but 

 the spots all smaller. D q" is " small example, expands I inch. E $ has spots all large and well defined like E 9 P* 'l'^ Anticosti 

 examples. F 9, all spots pupilled, but all smaller than on the last. G 9iH 9 I'l^e F (f^ of Coupers, except that the spot nearest 

 anal angle of secondaries is absent. These examples just described, some from Oregon, some from California and some from British 

 America, present no particular points of difference from those taken in Anticosti, more than there is a shade difl'erence in the blue of 

 upper surface of males, and the lemales have less blue on upper surface than in some of those from that locality ; should these be L. Pem- 

 bina, which I think is the case, then Couperii is undoubtedly the same; I had the first example', taken in 1872, a year jirior to 

 Mr. Grote's obtaining them, and although the examples, twelve in number, male and female, were faultless or nearly so, I could not 

 bring myself to describe them as new, believing then, as I still do, that they were Edwards' L. Pembina. Mr. Scudder, in Article XX,** 

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

 or less rubbed, and their determination was a matter of no small difficulty," and further, " the wings of the male are rubbed so that it is 

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

 to be speciHcally distinct " ; 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^ne great aim of having "Grote" behind the name did not in this instance 

 "obtain." 



Mr. Scudder says in same paper, " the name Couperi will nevertheless s'and for this species, for Mr. Edwards has recently called my 

 attention to the fact that in describing Pembina he stated it to be allied to the Californian Phcres, Boisd., ndiile in the satve conncclion he 

 described a Californian butterlly (Behrii) as belonging to a distinct series of which Lygdamus, DoubL, was the type" ; with equal pro- 

 priety might Mr. Grote give to Argynnis Nokomis another name because Mr. Edwards indulged in some little phantasy about the 

 relation or similarity of that species to A. Diana, which belongs to a distinct group or series. Mr. PMwards in his Synopsis N. Am. 

 Butt. (1872) has placed the Lycaena referred to thus, No. " 50, Behrii,ft 51, Antiaci.s,Jj 52, Lygdamus,5J 53, Pembina, so if he did think 



*Scudder, Proc. Bost. Nat. Hist. Soc., p. 108, (1862.) 



t Herr-Sch. Schmett. Eur. I, f. 41, 42, (1843). ' 



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



IFabr. Svst. Ent., p. 531, (1775). 



IIBoisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fi\, p. 297, (1852). 



II Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila,, p. 22, (1862). 



** Bull. Buf}'. Soc, Vol. I, " Notes on the species of Glaucopsyche from Eastern N. Am." (1873). 



tt Edwards, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phil., (1862). 



ti Boisdnval, Ann. Ent. Soc Fr., p. 300, (1852). 



U Doubleday, Ent. I, p. 209, (1842). ' " 



