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XIV. On a Collection of Lepidoptera/z'OJ^i Arctic America. 

 By Henry John Elwes, F.R.S., etc. 



[Read Febnmiy 4th, 1903.] 



Plate IX. 



The collection of which I give a list was made by Mr. 

 David Hanbury, who has appended notes on the localities 

 and habits of the insects, which give an exceptional value 

 to it. 



Though small in number of species, it is the most 

 interesting Arctic collection I have yet seen, and most of 

 the specimens are in beautiful condition. The variation 

 in some of the species is extraordinary. 



Considering the difficulties under which collecting is 

 carried on in such a region, and that Mr. Hanbury had 

 not previously any experience in collecting, this collection 

 does him the highest credit. 



He has been good enough to present the greater part 

 of it to the National Museum. 



List of Mr. H anbury's Arctic Collection. 



1. Erebia fasciata. (Plate IX, fig. 11 ^, 12 ? .) 

 E.fasciata, Butler, Cat. Sat. B.M., p. 92, PI. II, fig. 8 



(18G8). 



Several specimens in beautiful condition ; from Point 

 Epworth, 11, vii; Cape Barrow, 30, vi ; Chapman Island, 

 27, vi ; Gray's Bay, 1, vii. These agree with the type in 

 the British Museum from Cambridge Bay, and vary con- 

 siderably in the amount of rufous in the fore-wing above, 

 which in the females extends to the base of the wing. 



The fringe in quite fresh specimens is grey. 



2. JSrchia disa. 



Papilio disa, Thunberg, Diss. Ins. Suec. II, p. 37 

 (1791). 



Three males and a female from Point Epworth, 11, vii. 

 These resemble specimens from Finland much more closel}'^ 

 than they do specimens of the var. mancinus, Hew., from 



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