202 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
it was almost inacessible to the Naturalist, who could only visit it to 
undergo much privation and hardship. Its forest is dense, and in 
many places almost impenetrable, but a great portion of the flora 
resembles that found in the mountain region north of the city of Quebec, 
and I have no doubt that the bulk of the Lepidoptera to be met with on 
the West Point will be found similar to those occurring in high northern 
latitudes. Mr. Strecker says that “the moths, with a few exceptions, are 
the same as some I took in the mountains of Luzerne Co., Penn. In 
fact, when I opened your box, I was struck with the similarity of its 
contents to a box I brought home from that trip—thirteen species of 
moths like thirteen species out of the twenty-two you sent me. Is not 
this curious? But, after all, if we consider that Luzerne County is the 
most mountainous part of this State, almost impenetrable and wild, and” 
fire feels comfortable there in June, it is not such great matter for 
wonder.” 
PAPILIO POLYXENES #abr., var. BREVICAUDA, Saunders.—I took four 
specimens of this species on the Island. It appears to be rare at Fox 
Bay. The specimen sent to Mr. H. K. Morrison, Boston, corresponds 
with the description of drevicauda. Regarding the T and © which I 
sent as P. asterias to Mr. Herman Strecker, of Reading, Pa., he writes — 
that the 2 of asterias has not got the yellow macular band on the wings 
as the gf has, or, at least, it is only represented by a few small.spots, 
whereas the 2 from Anticosti has the yellow band of unusual size, even 
broader than onthe J which accompanied the latter,and that the Anticost! 
g has the band twice as broad as any specimen seen by him from the 
United States, Canada, or Central America. He adds, that it comes as 
near to the South American P. Sadulus as it does to astertas. 1 am, 
therefore, inclined to believe that there are two Northern black and yellow 
varieties of Papilio, viz. :—one of asferias, occurring along the north 
shore and coast of Labrador to Newfoundland, while P. polyxenes Fabr., 
var. brevicauda, is so far confined to the Island of Anticosti. 
PIERIS FRIGIDA Scudder.—This species was quite common in Labrador 
during my visit in 1867, and I met with it on the 2oth of last June, at 
Fox Bay, Anticosti, where it was not abundant. In October of the above 
year, a © frigida was forwarded to Mr. Scudder, who thought it was 
the above species, but as I did not send the {, he was not positive. It 
would be well, therefore, to compare it with congeneric species. 
COLIAsS INTERIOR, Scudder.—This butterfly occurs on the north coast 
of Labrador, from Sawbill River to Natashquan. It is not frequently seen 
