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the fact that there arc no normal coloured females, instead of being 

 fulvous they are of a blackish-brown colour, with the sub-terminal area 

 of a pale straw yellow. The question whether there were ever any 

 normal-coloured females in an interesting one. The localities I have it 

 from are Princeton. Similkameen, Vernon. Armstrong, and Rossland. 



2. A. aphrodite race Columbia Hy. Hdw. Until quite recently 

 Columbia has always been considered a distinct species, but upon an 

 examination of the t\pe l^y Dr. McDunnough it is now considered a 

 small northern form of aphrodite. It resembles atlantis somewhat, and 

 with which it has very often been associated, but they can alwa}'s l)c 

 separated in the males by the fact that in atlantis the veins on the 

 primaries are enlarged or thickened b\' black scales. It was described 

 from Lake La Hache and Quesnel in 1877, but it has a wide distribution 

 throughout the northern part of Canada. I have specimens of this 

 species from Chilcotin. 



3. A. atlantis Edw. .\lthough this butterfly occurs from the Hope 

 Mountains to the Rockies, it is not listed in our B. C. Check Lists. It 

 was probably listed under the name of electa Edw., which is, however, 

 a larger and more heavily marked insect. I have it recorded from a 

 number of localities, including Atlin, Mt. McLean, Armstrong, Osoyoos, 

 and Rossland. 



4. A. electa Edw. This is one of the commonest species of this 

 genus in the Intericjr. I have it from a large number of localities 

 between Princeton and the Rocky Mountains. There has been a con- 

 siderable mix up in the types of chitone, electa, and cornelia, the latter 

 of which is now sunk as a synonym of electa. Edwards had several 

 forms before him when he described this species, but the type is now 

 restricted to a male from No. Colo., taken by Mead in 1871. 



In the Vernon district we have another species going under this 

 name with the discal area of the underside of the secondaries suffused 

 with chocolate brown. They could not be matched in the Barnes col- 

 lection, and may be an undescribed form of either electa or chitone. 



5. A. bremneri Edw. In our B. C. Check Lists the locality of 

 this species is given as "generally distributed." but this is wrong, as I 

 have no record of its being taken anywhere than on \'ancouver Island 

 and the Lower Eraser Valley. Possibly the undescribed form men- 

 tioned above has been confused with it, as they bear a general resem- 

 l)lance to each other. 



6. A. hydaspe race rhodope Edw. This with the preceding species 

 ^ are the only two that occur on Vancouver Island, so that we are rather 



poorly ofif in this particular section of the Province. Rhodope, which 

 previousl)- held specific rank, is now regarded as the extremely heavily 

 marked northern race of hydaspe which occurs in the Yosemite Valley. 

 Cal. The race purpurascens of SisTciyou Co., Calif., being the connect- 

 ing link Ijetween the two. Rhodope so far has only been found in British 



