thick swampy meadow over/^rown with willows, down to the i iver.s edgi^ ia hopes oi 

 finding Ckri/aophanus Florun. We were, however, unsucccssfu in this etfort. Up ta 

 this time wo had not seen a single Coliag Int^ior, although a hundred miles oast on our 

 journey up wo had seen them in abundance along tlie liin' of railway. On this account wo 

 decided to return the way we came, instead of going, as wo had arranged, down the kko 

 by steamer. Kven if the species ap!)earc<l l)efore we left it could only bo the males now, 

 as they precede the females by about a week. VVe had seen them abundant at Sudbury, 

 so decided to stop over there on the way back. There al-.o lived Mr. J. D. Evans, an 

 enthusiastic collector, and one who was 8|»ecially interested in C. Interior. 



In < he afternoon we made an expediti m up the wood roail. Here we secured two 

 female Caitaroccplinltia Mnndan and numerous e.xamples of Phycioihs Xyctein, P. Tharon and 

 LyciKiia Lucia. C. Mandan was one of our special desiderata. We had taki-n several 

 males, but these two females and another were the only ones we caught. Tliey were afc 

 once, in deference to Mr. Scudder's wish, caged over Poa prafansis. This spfteies was of 

 particular interest to me, and after having bred the larva from the egg past. il\e fourth 

 moult to hibernation, I still find it one of the most interesting butterflies I know. It ia 

 rare but widely distributed, I caught my first specimen on Vancouver Island in 1885. 

 The same year Professor Macoun took it in the Rocky Mountains, and Mr. J. M. Mac.onn 

 took it at Lake Mistassini, and I have seen it in woods near Bolxaygoon,' Ont. Froni 

 the positive statement in European works that the larva of tho very similar C. Paniscua 

 feeds upon Plantaijo, I bad tied specimens taken at Nepigon lust year upon that plant, 

 but got no eggs. I should have made the aame mistake this year but for Mr. Scudder'a 

 knowledge. It illustrateJ well the value of experience. 



Before we caged our two specimens he maintained that he dil not believe Plnntago 

 was the food plant of our spccie-s, but siiid that if the egg provid to bo ribbed, he would 

 alter, his opinion ; if, however, it should \>e smooth ami liemispliericnl, like those of the 

 Pamphilidtc, he was positive that grass was its food plant. As this was an important 

 question, we decided that if another specimen were taken we would dissect it, and discover 

 tho nature of the egt;s. Later in the afternoon this o|)portunity occurred, and the egga 

 were then discovered to be smooth, as he had anticipat<'(l. The correctness of his views 

 as to the food, were also afterwards corroborated by the females laying on the grass and 

 the young larvre eating it reaJily, and refusing plantain leaves. The same day we caged 

 Ambli/scirtes Vtalis, Pninphila Cenifs and Ltjctftia Lucia. The first two on grass, the last 

 on a flower bearing twig of Coriius atoloniferii, the Red-osier Dogwood. As we passed 

 through the heavy herbaceous undergrowth, a sharp eye was kept on the stems of the 

 Epiloliiuni au(fU8f I folium for the larva; of the rare A!i/pia McCiillochii. In 1887 I dis- 

 covered this to bo the food-plant without recognizing the larvte. Unfortunately no notes 

 were taken of th(Mr appearance ; all I can r<'member is that they were smooth and black, 

 with yellow markings — more like the larvie of Eudryaa, 1 should say, than of Alypia 

 ociomacuhita. I collected two larvse and placed them in a jaP with some of their food. 

 The next morning they had buried, and not thinking they were of any special interest I 

 did not uneaith them. Tlii.s spring I discovere^l, with chagrin, what they were, and 

 that I had no description of the larva. The pupji was very similar to that of Eudryaa 

 (jrafa, both in .shape and col-ur. 



This day marked an era in the records of our trip. I find it underlined in my diary. 

 "Today Clirysops first appeared in numbers." There seemed to "be a plague of them. 

 Directly we enten-d the woods we were set upon, and at last were compelled to put nets 

 over our lieails and wear handkerchiefs over the bncks of our necks. Amongst the new 

 captures of the day were one specimen each of Lyciena Coiiperi and Arfjynnis Aphrodite^ 

 the latter fresh from the chrysalis. 



On Tuesday morning, lOth, Argnnis Bel/ona and A. Afyrina were both tied over 

 plants of Viola reniiolla, and egj,'8 were laid within a few hours. Upon clover flowers in 

 a small meadow near the Hudson Bay Post, and, curiously, nowhere else, a few speci- 

 mens of Colias Philodifi' were taken. In the woods the Eurytheme and Keewaydin 

 forms of Co/ias Eurylheine were caught and lied on clover. After dinner we had decided 

 that we would take a tiip to "the Kidga" Soon after pa.ssing the railway bridge over 

 the Nopigon, our first specimen of Colias Interior was bagged. What a lovely species it 



