50 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



FURTHER NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA-RHOPALOCERA 

 OF HUDSON'S BAY. 



By J. Jennek Weir, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



In the ' Entomologist' for 1881, vol. xiv., pp. 97 — 100, will be 

 found my previous communication on this subject. Mr. Walton 

 Haydon, to whose great kindness I am indebted for the collection, 

 has now left the district, and returned to England ; at present he 

 has no intention of again visiting Moose, where most of his 

 captures were made, so that this will probably be nry last notes 

 on the Lepidoptera of Hudson's Bay. Mr. Haydon was five years 

 and a half stationed at Moose, and as during the whole of the 

 time he was on the alert to capture species new to the district, it 

 may fairly be considered that, with the additions I now make to 

 my former list, a very fair knowledge of the Lepidoptera- 

 Rhopalocera of the southern arm of Hudson's Bay has been 

 obtained. 



In my previous paper I gave an account of seventeen species, 

 being all that had been obtained in two years ; three more 

 summers' collecting have doubled this number. In my former 

 list I gave the names of three British species of butterflies from 

 Moose, and am now enabled to give three more, viz. : — 



Coenonympha tiphon, Eott., var. inornata, Edw. — But few of 

 these were taken ; they are like the British C. clavus, but even 

 less marked with ocelli; indeed, on the upper side of the wings of 

 two specimens I cannot discover any markings. 



Lyccena phlceas, Linn., var americana, D'Urban. — The wings 

 of this variety are suffused with black, and but very faint traces 

 of orange are visible ; both sexes are as dark in colour as the 

 males of L. dorilis. 



Pieris rapce, Linn.— No doubt introduced; at present rare. 



The following six species are more or less closely allied to 

 British, viz. : — 



Argynnis aphrodite, Fab. ? — I am not quite certain that the 

 three specimens taken are this species ; they are much smaller 

 than those figured by Edwards (Butt. N. Amer. Arg. t. 3, 1808); 

 they more resemble in size his figure of A. hesperis, given in the 

 same work (Arg. t. 7) ; and I should have considered them that 

 species but for the fact that he describes the under side of the 



