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AN INTERESTING BUTTERFLY CAPTURE. 
By A. P. Morse, 
Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. 
On August 6, 1926, while in southern New Brunswick, I 
took several specimens of a butterfly which looked unfamiliar, 
though it recalled both Brenthis montinus and B. bellona. Com- 
parison with available examples of B. chariclea and boisduvali 
showed that it was most like the latter but differed in being 
considerably larger. As no example of that form was reported 
from nearer than Natashquan, Labrador, a specimen was sent, 
by permission, to Dr. F. H. Benjamin, curator of the Barnes 
collection, for determination. He tells me that it agrees per- 
fectly with the type of Brenthis chariclea grandis of Barnes and 
McDunnough (Can. Ent., vol. 48, p. 223 (1916) from Hymers, 
Ont. 
The original description emphasizes the deep purple color 
on the under side of the secondaries and the apex of the pri- 
maries. In my specimens the color is a deep golden brown, 
more or less suffused with purplish (lavender on the mesial pale 
band of the secondaries), a combination which, with the numerous 
dark and light spots of varied outline and arrangement, gives a 
very rich effect to the aspect of the lower surface of the wings. 
This butterfly was captured in Charlotte County, N. B., 
only a few miles from the coast, — several hundred miles from 
Natashquan on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, which 
is, I believe, the nearest point from which boisduvali has been 
recorded. This would seem good reason for believing that it 
will ultimately be found to be a resident locally of the moun- 
tainous portions of eastern Quebec, the colder sections of New 
Brunswick, especially near the coast, and also, perhaps, even of 
the eastern portion of Maine in the vicinity of Trescott and 
Cutler. 
