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inclined to think them specifically identical ; and that is the view 

 held by Staudinger, but not by Edwards. 



Three species of Colias, in addition to C. ery theme, var. 

 kewaydin, Edw., mentioned in my last paper, were captured, viz.: 

 Colias edwardsii, Behr., C. occidentalis, Scudder, and C. pelidne, 

 Bois. ; but whether the four species are distinct from each other 

 and also from other European species I am not able to determine; 

 one of the Colias pelidne was caught at Little Whale River, 450 

 miles north of Moose. The Pyrameis cardui from Moose has two 

 of the black spots on the upper side of the secondaries with blue 

 pupils, approaching in this respect the Australian variety 

 kershawii, which has three of the spots so marked. 



It will be gathered from these two communications that the 

 butterflies of Hudson's Bay are essentially of European type, 

 several species being quite identical, others geographical races 

 only of European species, some few American types of European 

 genera, and one species only, Phyciodes tharos, which belongs 

 to a purely American genus. I am therefore disposed to agree 

 with Staudinger that the Lepidoptera of Labrador and the 

 territory adjacent should be included in the European fauna. 



THE STORY OF (ECOPHORA WOODIELLA. 

 By Joseph Sidebotham, J.P., F.L.S., &c* 



This species occurs in the lists of British moths, but to most 

 entomologists it is but a name, and very few have ever seen the 

 insect itself, or know anything of its history. As I perhaps know 

 more of it than anyone now living, it may be interesting to tell its 

 story as far as I can. 



This insect is figured in Curtis's ' British Entomology,' plate 

 304, and called Woodiella, and said to be "taken on Kersal 

 Moor, Manchester, by Mr. R. Wood"; from this plate it has been 

 copied with more or less success by Wood, Humphreys and West- 

 wood, and Morris, but none of these authorities had seen a 

 specimen. 



When I first became a member of the Manchester Natural 

 History Club— the old Banksian Society — in the year 1840, 



* Head before Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, January 28th, 1884. 



