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"Spence's Bridge," British Columbia. Mr. Charles Schaeffer 

 says there are two specimens labelled type, a male and a fe- 

 male, in the Neumoegen collection, now the property of the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The male is labelled 

 "British Columbia," and the female "Fort Calgary." There 

 are also four specimens in the Jacob Doll collection, two males 

 and, a female from Laggan and one female from the Bullion 

 Mts., Colorado, the latter collected by David Bruce. Mr. 

 Schaeffer very kindly sent me the photographs of the male 

 and female types and the female from British Columbia. 

 Having considerable doubt about smintheus var. nanus having 

 been taken at Calgary, x\lberta, I wrote to Mr. F. H. Wolley 

 Dod and received the following reply: "Smintheus occurs at 

 Laggan and Banff, both at the eastern side of the divide. Ar- 

 thur Hudson, who formerly collected with me, claims to have 

 seen, but not captured it, about 25 miles southeast of Calgary. 

 He is not improbably correct, and it may occur even a few 

 miles nearer than that. In Geddes' days 'Calgary' might have 

 meant anywhere within 50 miles or even more." 



Size in smintheus, appears to be largely governed by alti- 

 ture. Mendica Stichel is the small form which so far as I 

 know, is only found at high altitudes. It is figured by Mr. 

 Edwards in vokmie I of his Butterflies of North America, pi. 

 4, f. I, 4, 5, as taken on the top of Berthoud's Pass, Colorado 

 (11,300 feet altitude), August i6th. We possess fifteen speci- 

 mens of this small form, all taken at very high altitudes in 

 Colorado, Bullion Peak, July 25th, and Berthoud's Pass, Au- 

 gust 22nd. The exact relationship of this to nanus remains to 

 be seen. Smintheus appears to vary more in size than does 

 clodius. The females of smintheus vary considerably in 

 color, some being much darker than others. The white in the 

 centre of the red spots of the inferior wings is also quite 

 variable in specimens found at one time in a given locality, 

 and at times are present on one side of the butterfly and ab- 

 sent on the other. The form called apricatus by Stichel I have 

 not seen and only know it from the figure in Grossschmetter- 

 linge der Erde. The locality given is Kadiak. 



We, have specimens of smintheus from British Columbia, 



