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further remarks that, in other species that occur throughout the 

 Palaearctic and Nearctic areas, the specimens found in America on the 

 Pacific side are far closer to the European examples than those individuals 

 found on the Atlantic slope. The fact that m and an was identical with 

 palaemon was pointed out by Moeschler (Verh. der zool.-bot. Gesell. 

 Wien, xxxiv., p. 288). Couper states (Can. Knt., November, 1872) 

 that a specimen captured at Fox Bay, Anticosti. on June 26th, 1n72, 

 did not differ in the slightest from the European specimens ; Jenner- 

 Weir notes (Entom.) it at Moose Fort, on the south coast of Hudson 

 Bay, much resembling palaemon, common in 1883, but not observed 

 before. 



]8. var. mesapano, Scudd., " Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.," xi., p. 383 (1868). — 

 Resembles H. mandan, Edw. Wings above dark purplish-brown, variegated with 

 dull orange spots, fringes dusky, blackish towards base. Primaries with a large 

 irregular spot in the cell ; it consists first of a square spot which occupies the whole 

 width of the cell, and has its outer limit at the second divarication of the median 

 nervule ; starting from a little beyond the lower inner angle of the square spot, 

 where it is divided by the median nervure, it does not reach the subcostal nervure, 

 and is obliquely truncated or rounded ; there is a subapical row of spots ; the three 

 subcostal ones are wedge-shaped, their apices pointed inwards ; the two between 

 the subcostal and median nervures are smaller than the rest, sublimate, and situated 

 so much further outwards that their inner border runs parallel to the outer border 

 of the other spots ; of the spots below these, the first is triangular, the second is 

 largest of all and subquadrate, the third and fourth are unequal and oppositely 

 rhomboidal ; midway between these and the base of the wing is a small roundish 

 spot. Secondaries with two spots between the subcostal and median nervures, 

 dividing equally the distance from the base to the tip of the wing, the inner ovate, 

 scarcely half as large as the outer roundish one, a third small ovate spot at the first 

 divarication of the median nervure, and sometimes a fourth small ovate spot between 

 terminal divarications of the subcostal, sometimes a submarginal row of spots. 

 Beneath dull fulvous, the primaries with brownish spots, the secondaries with very 

 large silvery-white spots, encircled with yellowish-brown ; the darker parts of the 

 primaries are as follows : — the basal half of the wing, beneath the median nervure, 

 fuscous ; the basal two-thirds of the costal area obscured with fuscous ; a dark spot 

 occupying the upper half of the middle of the cell ; a large oblong quadrate spot 

 between the subcostal and median nervures, extending from just within the tip of 

 the cell (where it encloses a yellow spot) more than halfway to the outer margin ; 

 above its basal third a slight iirfuscation ; a quadrate spot between the first and 

 second median nervules, its outer border reaching the second median nervule ; a 

 submarginal row of spots just without the row of yellow spots on the upper surface; 

 those between the subcostal and median nervures sagittate. The spots on the 

 secondaries are as follows : — a very large oblong oval one in the middle of the inter- 

 space between the subcostal nervure and its first nervule, two spots dividing equally 

 the interspace, between the subcostal and median nervures, the inner oblong-oval, as 

 large as the first-mentioned, the outer the largest on the wing, and subquadrate ; the 

 latter forms one of a straight discal row of spots, subparallel to the oiiter border, the 

 others being as follows : — a spot similar to the first two mentioned, situated between 

 the median and submedian nervures ; a small roundish or ovate spot between the 

 latter and the largest spot, and beyond the largest ; a roundish or subtriangular 

 spot, half as large as the first-mentioned spot, situated near the outer angle ; above 

 tlii-, at right angles to the extremity of the straight row, a small roundish spot ; a 

 submarginal row of five small roundish, spots, those between the subcostal and 

 median nervures small and marginal, sometimes obsolete. Expanse of wings one 

 inch. Taken at Norway, Maine, June 13th, by Mi-. Smith. 



It will be observed that the marked character of this form, " the 

 underside of the hindwings with very large silvery-white spots, 

 encircled with yellowish-brown," brings it into lino with var. albiyuttata, 

 Christ, (supra). 



y. var. sskada, "Trans. Am. Ent. Soc.," iii., pp. L96, 214 (1871). — <? expand^ 

 l'lio in. Qpperside dark brown, nearly black, spotted with ochraceous ; primaries hav e 

 minute submarginal spots opposite I lie cell ; a median row of large size, long, an ( j 



