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NISONIADES Speyer 

 N. brizo Bd-Lec. Quebec (B) ; St. Hilaire V (W) ; Montreal V-VI (W) ; Hudson V (W) ; Calumet 



VI (W); food plants: scrub oak and hounds-tongue. 



'N. icelus Lintn. Quebec VI (Fy); Windsor Mills VI (W); Montreal VI (W); food plants: willow 

 and aspen. 



N. juvenalis Fabr. No actual records, but has been taken at Ottawa, and doubtless occurs on 

 both sides of the River. Food plants, oak and various leguminous plants. 



N. luciiius Lintn. St. Hilaire V (W); Montreal V-VI (W); food plants: columbine, willow, 

 poplar, lamb's-quarter. 



N. persius Scud. A species always common in May at flowers of wild columbine. Ha-Ha 

 Bay (Sa); St. Hilaire V (W); Riviere du Loup VI (B); Montreal V (W); Hudson V (W); 

 Newaygo V (vSo); food plants: willow and poplar. 



PHOLISORA Speyer 

 P. Catullus Fabr. Quebec and Eastern Townships (Beth); food plant: lamb's quarter. 



EUDAMUS Swains. 

 E. pylades Scud. Quebec (B); St. Hilaire VI (W); Phillipsburg VI (W); St. Johns VI (C); 



Montreal VI (W); St. Margaret VI (W); food plant: clover. 

 E. tityrus Fabr. Quebec VI-VII (B); St. Hilaire VII (W); Montreal VI-VII (W); Chateauguay 



VII (J); food plants: locust, hog peanut, lathyrus. 



Note. — A number of butterflies of the Arctic fauna will probably be found on the border of 

 Labrador and within the new northern limits of this Province, but for want of records of 

 actual capture these have been omitted. 



Family SPHINGIDAE 



These are commonly known as Hawk-moths from their long narrow wings, their rapid flight 

 and the habit of poising in the air while at a flower. Most of the species fly just at dusk, but 

 a few, such as the "bee-hawks" and "humming-bird" moths visit the flowers in the brightest 

 mid-day sun. The tongues are very long — the body usually heavy and conical. The 

 larvae are generally green in color, with oblique stripes and have a curved horn on the back 

 at the end; giving the larva a formidable appearance. For pupation most of the larvae enter 

 the ground a few inches and make for themselves an earthen cell by twisting about. 



HEMARIS, Dalni. 

 H. diffinis Boisd. Quebec VI (Fy); St. Fabien VII (C); Montreal VI-VII (W); Lost River V 

 (Ob); Hudson V (W); Calumet VI (W); food plants: honeysuckle, s'nowberry, dogbane. 



H. gracilis G. and R. Quebec VI (B); food plant: probably sheep laurel (Kalmia) (W). 



H. thysbe Fabr. Fox Bay, Anticosti (Coup); Quebec (Fy); Compton (Gosse); Eastmans VI 

 (W); St. Hilaire V-VI (W); Montreal V-VI, (W); Lost River V, (Gb.); Montebello VI (W); 

 Montfort VI (C); St. Agathe VI (W); The variety ruficaudis Kirby (imiformis G. and 

 R.) also occurs with the type; food plants: viburnum, honeysuckle, snowberry. 



LEPISESIA Grote 

 L. flavofasciata Walk. Ormstown VI (II. MacDougall); Meach Lake \-\l; (J); food plant: 

 epilobium. 



