( 613 ) 



Early stages not known. Larva said liy Boisdnval to feed on Chirkhi. 



Hah. Pacific district : California ; Oregon ; British Colnrabia. " Iowa " 

 according to Smith : error ! 



In the Tring Musenm 22 cJcf, 1 ? from: Ozoyoos, Brit. Col. (lleynolds) : 

 Almots, AVashington ; Gold Hill, Oregon (Biedermann) ; California ; Berkeley, 

 California. 



554. Proserpinus flavofasciata. 



*}riu-iorjlnsmf(irnfttsrhilii Walker, L'ift Lep. Ins. B. M. \ iii. p. 87. n. 3 (1856) (Hudson's B. Territ.;— 

 Mus. Brit.). 



S ? . Palpns short, obtuse. Upperside of head and thorax and end of abdomen 

 (except middle) straw-yellow, rest of body deep black, edge of pronotnm and sides 

 of metauotum also more or less extended black. Distal margin of forewing 

 slightly sinuate behind ; a black subraedian band corresponding to the band of 

 gaurae, followed by a pale band ; the scaling of this pale band is dispersed and 

 most of the scales are grey ; hindwing with a yellow discal band, which is seldom 

 vestigial only. 



S- Tenth segment as in the other species; tergite slender, faintly spatnlate ; 

 sternite mncli shorter, more than twice as broad, boat-shaped, obtnse, gradnally 

 curved upwards at end in side-view. Harpe (PI. IL. f. 18) represented by a 

 straight tapering ridge whicii is not detached from the clasper. Penis-shoatli (PI 

 LIV. f. I'i) with a jirominent, horizontal, feebly cnrved, pointed process. 



Early stages not fully known, larva of J/ac. rachel noticed by Bruce ; see below- 



Hah. Nearctic Region, from Hudson's Bay to Vancouver, southward to Colorado. 



Three subspecies. The characters by which the three " species " have been 

 differentiated by the respective authors are not so constant as they have been 

 represented to be. A rare insect, of which we have not seen many specimens. 



a. P. flavofasciata llarofasfiatn. 



*Mwi-nghiss<t fiiirnfannaUi Walker. }.c. (Ig.'JC) ; Clem., Jomn. Ac. iV. Si: Philad. iv. p. 131. n. 4 

 (1859) (Albany R, Huds. Bay) ; Morris, Oil. Lep. N. Am. p. 17 (1860) ; Clem., in Morrip. 

 Si/ii. Lep. N. Atn. p. 151. D. 1 (l«Oi); Boisd., Sper. Gen. Up. Bft. i. p. 364. n. 51 (1K75) ; 

 Streck., J.ep. liUp. 11,1. p. 110. t. 13. f . 4 ( ? ) (1877) (Canada ; Holyoke, Mass.). 



l.epixethi jViritfdscvita.^ Grote, rmc. Enl. Snc. Plilhif!. v. p. 39 (18G5) (Canada) ; id. & Rob., HjhI. v. 

 p. 1411. n. 1 (1865) ; Beth., C'rnmd. Ent. i. p. 10. n. 7 (1869) ; Grote, Bidl Bvffiilo Soc. N. ,SV. 

 i. p. 17 (1874) (Canada) ; id., I.e. ii. p. 225. n. 17 (1875) ; id., /.c iii. p. 221. n. 19 (1877) 

 (Can.ada) ; Butl., Trans. Ziivl. Sac. Lund. ix. p. 517, n. 1 (1877) ; Fish., Caiicul. Ent. x. p, 140 

 (1878) (Maine, one specim. May 28tli) ; Fern., ibid. xvi. p. 21 (1884) (Orono, Maine) ; id., 

 Sphinij. N. Engl. p. 11). n. 6 (1886) (Maine ; June, midday) ; Grote, Hawk Maths N. Am. p. 27 

 (1886) (Can.; East. States; Northern N. York. iv. v.) ; Smith, 7Vo«». Amn: Ent. Soc. xv. 

 p. Ill (1888) (Hudson's Bay Territ. ; Canada ; Maine ; Mass.); Lym., Cmnid. Ent. xxiii. p. 8 

 (1891) (Ormstown, Chateauguay Co., Albany R., Hudson's Bay territory ; Strecker's fig. too 

 pale yellow); Kirby, Cut. Lcji. Iltl. i. p. IKK. l. 1 (1892); Hanh., Canad. Ent. xxxi. p. .50 

 (1899) (Manitoba, ! specim., v.). 



S ? . Yellow band of hindwing reaching to abdominal margin. 

 Ilah. Eastern Canada and New England. 

 In the Britisli .Museum 1 S. 



h. r. //itvofa.'ifitifd iilabimc. 



Mm;„,i]„A»a ulatnme Strccker, /,f//. niaip. Iht. p. 135. t. 15. f, :i ( ? ) (1878) (Oregon). 

 /.i/iiteniii nlu/nmc, Smith, 7ninn. Anier. Ent. Sac. xv. p. 1 1 1 (I88KJ ; Kdw., Ent. Ainei: iii. p. 223 

 (1888) ; Kirby, Cut. Up. Iht. i, p. 628. n. 2 (1892) , (iibs., Cannd. Ent. xxxi. p. .370 (l"!'") 



