APPENDIX I 437 
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. Cneis norma, varieties semidea (eno) and bore, 
are recorded from Strawberry Harbour and Hopedale, collected 
August 3. 
The little “Arctic bluet,’’ A griades 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”’ 
— Lycena (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 Hesperide, 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 centauree Ramb. 
The family Arctiide 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 Noctuide, 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 
