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Butterflies of the Province of Quebec — Continued. 



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Name of Insect. 



Prevailing Coloue. 



DISTINGUISHING MaEKB. 



Nisoniades Brizo 



11-10 

 11-10 

 11-10 



Thecla Mopsus 



Chrysophanus Americana . . . 

 Feniseca Tarquinius 



1 | Chrysophanus Epixanthe . . , 

 1 



Lycasna Marginata . . 

 Pamphila Hobomok . 



Pamphila Mystic 



Pamphila Wamsutta. 

 Pamphila Manitoba. . 

 Lycsena Comyntas . . . 



Pamphila Aliaton 



Ancyloxypha marginatus. 

 Pyrgus Centaureae 



Very dark brown 



Dark brown 



Copper-red 



Fulvous and brown 



Purplish-brown 



Satiny-blue 



Fulvous 



Fulvous 



Dark brown 



Fulvous 



Male— Violet blue. Fe- 

 male— Black, glossed 

 with blue 



Light brown 



Tawny yellow 



Dark brown 



Greyish marking's and spots. Two rows of 

 ochre yellow spots near hind margin of 

 hind wing. 



No tails. Vermillion spots on under side. 



Dark brown hind wing with red hind border. 



Under side straw-colour. Hind wing thickly 

 set with light reddish brown, white bor- 

 dered spots. 



Under side bluish-white with black dots. 



Under side bluish-grey with dark markings. 

 No orange crescents. 



Under side of hind wing has a straw-coloured 

 patch in the centre and a yellow spot 

 near the shoiddcr. 



Under side of hind wing has a curved row of 

 seven straw-coloured spots. 



Under side of hind wing has two large con- 

 nected irregular yellow patches. 



Under side of hind wing has two curved rows 

 of silvery spots. 



Thread-like tail. Orange crescents on under 

 side. 



Under side of hind wing yellowish-brown. 



Under side hind wing yellow. 



Black and white fringes. Under side glossy 

 reddish-brown. 



NOTES ON THE GENUS CALLIMORPHA. 



BY F. B. CAULFIELD, MONTREAL. 



Head at annual meeting of the Ent. Society, Oct. 14th, 1885. 



1 have endeavoured to give a few brief notes on our Callimorphas. I have only seen 

 lour Canadian species, one buff, inter rupto-marginata, and three white Lecontei, contigua, 

 and one unnamed species which generally passes for Lecontei, but certainly is not that 

 ■pedes, as I have Wed both species and the larva of Lecontei is larger, and the colours aro 

 duller than those of the larva of the smaller species. Lecontei has several varieties, such 

 K militant, Harris, and confinis, Walk, and these varieties have much more white on the 

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