NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. : 161 
Colias Labradorensis, C. Keewaydin, C. Eurytheme, Terias Lisa, Xanthid- 
ium Nicippe, Anthocaris Genutia, Nymphidium dorsale, Lycæna violacea, 
L. Pembina, L. ee Thecla Ontario, T. Clothilde, Euptoieta Claudia, 
Melitea Batesti, Apatura Clyton, Grapta Dryas, G. Fa bricii, G. interroga- 
tionis, Libythe a Bachmanii, Saty yres areolatus, yor teary Jutta, Nisonia- 
des Lucilius, N. Horatius, N. Virgilius, N. Mart , N. Icelus, Hudamus 
Bathyllus A epar E. ga Be Hesperia oles H. Wingi H. via- 
lis, H. Monoco, H. Hianna, H. Mesapano, H. Delaware, H. Phylæus, H. 
Wyandot, aen uA Hur 
Persons possessing secu their collections and memoranda any precise 
data, however meagre, for determining the respective times of appear- 
ance of the different buch: of Grapta and Nisoniades, as recently dis- 
p n will be given in every instance. 
ters, memoranda and specimens, sent to my address at the Society 
of zen History, Ber apo pedes Boston, ie March 4th, 1871, will = 
forwarded thence to me in season for incorporation in my book. 
manuscript n soon be kao It will form an imperial oe ie 
m four to five hundred pages, and be illustrated by chromolitho- 
graphic ies in a style which, judging from specimens prepared, has 
never yet been equalled, even in Europe.-— SAMUEL H DE: 
CALLIDRYaS Evusute Linn.— This large Pierian butterfly was taken by 
me at New Bedford, Mass., Aug., 31st. Mr. Sanborn, who has seen the 
specimen, speaks of it as the first one of the kind observed in New Eng- 
land, or at least in Massachusetts. H. W. PARKER. 
. S. I. Smith informs us that he has taken this insect abundantly at 
Fire Island, Long Island, N. Y., during the past summer.] — Ep 
MEPHITIS BICOLOR. — Since my note in the August N: ATURALIST Was 
written, on the occurrence o of this species in Iowa, I have obtained an- 
other skin in Grinnell, Iowa, and still another in Des Moines, from a 
dealer in pelts, who informs me that he bought at least fifty skins of the 
that the species may be found even in central New York. Dr. S. J. 
Parker, of Ithaca, N. Y., has twice seen by the roadside, in that region, 
a small, many-striped skunk, very different from the common one.—H. W. 
ARKER. 
o Motes. — The Shrew Mole (Scalops Canadensis) h 
been A Weeds abundant for a few years past in Essex county, Ms. 
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brava in Miculy cultivated gardens. The shrew usus is seldom seen 
above ground, but burrows with celerity below its surfac 
The Star-nosed Mole frequents the same moist neg Wie like the 
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