inxfkiili^s of tlie nndei' sm-'face rather heavier. But the two fenialcff 

 are undersized, measuring but 21 mm. in expanse; one of them had 

 but few, and the other no, bhie scales on the disk above; neither of* 

 them has a ti'ace of any orange spots upoti the outer border of the 

 hind wings above, an;! very httle, or no tinge of orange upon the 

 outer border of the fore wings beneath. In all these I'espects, sped- 

 toens from the southern coast of Labrador agree better With those 

 from Canada ami I^ew Yo.^k than with those from Cape Breton. 



Ohrysophanus Epixanthe. Whetlier Dorcas is distinct on 

 hot, I do not now venture to assert, but the specimens from Cape 

 Breton belong to l^pixanthe, and not, as we should expect, to the 

 Dorccls type. 



Eurymus Philodioe* The most interesting insect brought' 

 home by Mr. Thaxter is unquestionably our common Zi/. Philodice<- 

 The males hardly differ at all from the normal type, as found in New 

 England, excepting in possessing a less conspicuous spot at the ex- 

 tremity of the cell in the fore wings above, although there, as here,' 

 it varies to a considerable ejitent. In both sexes it is usually a very 

 pale orange transverse spot, edged narrowly with dusky scales. The 

 female, too, is dimorphic in both places, but whether yellow or pallid,- 

 Cape Breton specimens invariably show a uniform and considerable 

 departui'e from the normal type. New England individuals have a- 

 very l)road, dark border to the upper surface of the fore wings, ex- 

 tending down to the inner border, almost or quite as conspicuously 

 as in the male, although not extending along this border toward the 

 base ; this marginal band encloses a curving submarginal series of 

 ill-defined yellow (or pallid) spots; it is only occasionally so narrow 

 that the spots are situated at its yeny edge; so, too, there is a 

 marginal band upon the hind wings, like that of the males, thougb 

 narrower, often broken, and with an ill-defined interior edge ; this, 

 however, is occasionally redilced to a few scattered grimy scales be- 

 tween the upper subcostal and middle median nervules, very much- 

 as appears in the female of Hurijmus Pelidne, when they are present 

 at all. Now in the females before me, from Cape Breton, the mar- 

 ginal band of the hind wing is either totally ateent, or is reduced to' 

 a few scales clustered about the extremity of the subcostal nervules,- 

 and is, in only a single instance, continuous along the border between 

 these nervules; while the border of the fore wing, broad indeed next- 

 the costal margin, narrows rapidly, and terminates usually at the 

 .lower median nervule, or, if it reaches to the submedian nervure, it- 



