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the genus Gineis. 465 
wholly obsolete, the fawn-coloured blotches surrounding 
them are also faint or almost obsolete. 
With regard to the habits of this species, I cannot add 
much to the excellent account given in W. H. Edwards’ 
‘Butterflies of North America’ (J. c.). I have taken it 
myself only in Norway, where it is one of the earliest 
butterflies, and flies in peat-bogs in June. At Laggan it 
is very abundant in small boggy openings in pine-woods, 
and is much easier to catch than it appears to be in 
Canada, as it is not shy, and frequently settles on dwarf 
willows and flowers ; it is in perfection here from about 
the end of June to the middle of July, from 4000 to 
6000 ft. 
The variety or aberration balderi has the ocelli fewer 
and less conspicuous than the typical form, and, ac- 
cording to Dr. Staudinger, most specimens from Labra- 
dor and Livonia are of this form; but as its transition 
forms to true jutta are numerous, I cannot see any 
greater ground for retaining this varietal name than I 
can for var. magna. 
The clasp-form of this species is of the same general 
type as that of GZ. fulla (fig. 4), as may be seen from 
Scudder’s figure, l. ¢., pl. xxxili., fig. 5. 
CE. mulla.—With regard to this insect, I have not 
sufficient material to judge from, but Dr. Staudinger 
writes me that it is doubtless distinct from jutta, and far 
more distinct than bore from taygete or semidea; it has 
been taken, so far as I know, only in the Tarbagatai 
Mountains, at about 6000—8000 ft. by Haberhauer. 
GE. nevadensis.—After comparing very numerous speci- 
mens in my own and other collections from California, 
Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver’s Island, of which 
the last was sent me by Mr. Fletcher as gigas, I cannot 
allow that the differences relied on by Mr. W. H. 
Edwards between these californica and iduna are of any 
weight, and have no hesitation in uniting these four 
supposed forms. The habitat of this species is peculiar ; 
I have taken it in Oregon, at about 2000 ft., flying in 
stony or rocky pine-woods, where there was not much 
undergrowth. It occurs as high as 7000 ft. on Mount 
Hood, in the same State, according to Morrison, and is 
common in the pine-forests of Mendocino County, Cali- 
fornia. . 
CZ. macounii.—This remarkable species is so like the 
