Hagen.") 186 [November 22, 



mens are indeed in the collection of the museum labeled in his 

 handwriting as females. I have to acknowledge that the end of 

 the abdomen is much crushed. All the specimens were collected 

 at the Gulf of Georgia, W. T., by Mr. A. Agassiz, and there are 

 a large number of them. Mr. Boisduval describes P. ninonia from 

 five specimens collected by Mr. Lorquin, " dans la partie la plus 

 orientale de la Californie." 



If the female described by Mr. Boisduval belongs to this sex, 

 which is probable, it is not var. suffusa. Dr. Behr gives only the 

 description of the genus Neophasia, based upon P. menapia. His 

 specimens were found on a certain elevation of the Sierra Nevada, 

 Cal. (perhaps also by Mr. Lorquin ?) 



Mr. W. H. Edwards does not state the locality of the specimens 

 figured by him. In Wheeler's Expedition Mr. Mead speaks about 

 the specimens collected in Colorado by Mr. Allen (sent to Mr. 

 Edwards by the Cambridge Museum), and states that the outer 

 half of the costal margin of the secondaries of the male are tinged 

 with vermillion, which he believes is not shown by the Californian 

 specimens. The female described by him, Tr. _^m. Ent. Soc, iv, 

 p. 63, was collected by Dr. Bremner in the Island of San Juan, 

 Gulf of Georgia, and judging by the far more detailed description 

 in the Supplem. Notices Buttfl. Yol. i, corresponds exactly to 

 the var. suffusa, which was not to be decided by the description 

 in Tr. Ent. Soc. Vol. iv, 63. 



I have before me 26 females, one each from Colorado and 

 British Columbia, all the others from the same place in Colville 

 Valley, W. T. 



The size varies from 55 mm. to 47 mm. expansion, only the 

 Colorado sj^ecimen is larger, 58 mm. exp. 



The color is sordid white or yellow, but six specimens are 

 nearly as white as the males above, and below just as white. To 

 these belong the specimen from Colorado, from British Columbia 

 and the others from Washington Territory. The black apical 

 spot of the primaries always extends beyond the second inferior 

 nervule reaching the third; sometimes it is longer and goes 

 straight down to the angle of the wing. The number of the 

 white or yellow spots is mostly six but the last one often less 

 marked, and sometimes wanting. The secondaries have in two 

 specimens an uninterrupted black marginal band ; mostly the 



