[FLETCHER] DESCRIPTIONS OF CANADIAN BUTTERFLIES 209 



are 5 large nacreous spots and a dash inside the internal vein. The 

 triple mesial band is wide, distinct, and nacreous, the spots of the same 

 shape and comparative length as in nycteis ; but the outer transverse tra- 

 versing line is somewhat angled where it crosses the nervules, that is, is 

 made up of short, almost straight dashes ^s in M. harrisii, not of rounded 

 crenations as in nycteis. The outer margin of this band is, as in 

 nycteis, not clearly defined, a character in which both of these species 

 differ from M. harrisii, where this is distinctly the case. Beyond the 

 mesial band is a row of 5 ocelli, the central one of which is white, ringed 

 with brown, and tHie two outer ones on each side of this are black, shaded 

 inwardly with fulvous and pupilled with white. The most conspicuous 

 character of this species and one by which it is easily separated from 

 nycteis, is the complete series of large marginal silvery lunules which 

 occur on every interspace, as in M. harrisii. In hanhami, as in nycteis, 

 the pattern below is outlined in brown, while in harrisii the margins 

 of the spots are black, thus producing the well-defined and distinct 

 pattern which is characteristic of that species. Body above black, ful- 

 vous on sides, silvery beneath. Abdomen banded narrowly with 

 white, above. Antennse black above, banded with white, bright 

 fulvous beneath. Palpi silvery white, fulvous at tips. I must 

 acknowledge that I refer this species with some hesitation to the old 

 genus Fhyciodes. The general appearance and venation seem to make 

 it congeneric with nycteis; but, at the same time, the upper sides of 

 some specimens resemble closely extreme forms of M. harrisii, in which 

 the yellow colour predominates, and in addition, the shape of most of 

 the markings beneath is similar to those of that species. On examining 

 a good series of specimens, the venation comes rather under the genus 

 Charidryas, characterized by Scudder, and as figured by Holland in 

 the Butterfly book, than under Cinclidia. Although, as stated, the 

 markings resemble more closely those of harrisii in shape, the distribu- 

 tion of the colour areas is more as in nycteis. There is also in the 

 mottled appearance of the underside a resemblance to P. mylitta which 

 is congeneric with nycteis. 



Distribution: Manitoba (Eastern, Central and Southern), Minne- 

 sota. The first specimens of this insect seen by me were in the 

 collection of Mr. A. W. Hanliam, at Winnipeg near which place, 

 at Bird's Hill, he had taken them late in June, 1895. Subse- 

 quently I took several specimens at the same place and at Brandon in 

 the beginning of July. Mr. L. E. Marmont finds the species not un- 

 common at Eounthwaite, Man., and Mr. Norman Criddle takes it also 

 at Aweme, Man. Dr. Wm. Barnes writes me that he has specimens from 

 near Minneapolis, Min, 



