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The larva of the Arctic satyr feeds on carax. It has been found 

 at Nain, Hopedale, and Square Island Harbour during the months 

 of June and July. (Eneis norma, varieties semidea (ceno) and bore, 

 are recorded from Strawberry Harbour and Hopedale, collected 

 August 3. 



The little "Arctic bluet," Agriades aquilo (Polyommatus franklinii 

 Curtis), which Packard refers to as "half skipping and half flying 

 over the lichened boulders," has been taken at Sloop Harbour, 

 Henley Harbour, and Hopedale, July 19 to August 15. In the in- 

 terior of the peninsula, one of the varieties of the "Spring Azure" 

 Lyccena (Cyaniris) ladon, variety lucia has been collected. Its 

 colour is a pale violet, the wings having a broad blackish border 

 in the female ; under side of the wings is light gray, flecked with 

 brownish black. The wings expand about one inch. It feeds 

 on a great variety of plants, especially Cornus. 



Two species of the Hesperidse, or skippers, are recorded. The 

 Pamphila comma, representing the variety "catena Stand.," is also 

 found in northern Scandinavia and Lapland. The other species 

 is Hesperia centaurece Ramb. 



The family Arctiidse is represented by only four species. One 

 of the tiger-moths (Apantesis quenseli), a small black species with 

 the fore wings tessellated with white, is also found throughout 

 Arctic America, Europe, and Asia, and on Mount Washington, 

 New Hampshire, and the Swiss Alps. The great tiger-moth, 

 Arctia caia, has dark brown fore wings marked with white, and 

 bright red hind wings spotted with black. It is also circumpolar 

 in its distribution. The large and beautiful "St. Lawrence tiger- 

 moth," Hyphoraia parthenos (PL, Fig. 12), with its bright reddish 

 brown fore wings spotted with yellow, and bright yellow hind 

 wings banded with black, is recorded from the Moravian stations. 



The Noctuidse, or owlet-moths, number about forty species, 

 and form a very interesting group worthy of a great deal of study. 

 Professor Packard refers to those boreal forms as follows: 



"The moths were all Arctic species, and when at rest so harmo- 

 nized in colour with the lichens and other vegetation in which they 

 nestled as to entirely deceive me. And yet what was the use of 

 practising, even unconsciously to themselves, this deception? 

 The answer was not far off there was a shore lark, or some such 

 bird, flitting about and running over the rocks, busily searching 

 for just such moths as these, and the only hope of safety for 

 the insects from their sharp eyes was in their resemblance to the 

 lichens." 



The forty species are divided among some fourteen genera 

 according to the more modern classification, the more prominent 

 of these being Mamestra, Pachnobia, Hadena, Semiophora, Anarta 



