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The third is a hermaphrodite, taken by Prof. J. E. Meyer in Brooklyn, in 1863, now in 
possession of Mr. W. H. Edwards, who described it in Proc. Ent. Soe., Phil., IV, p. 390, 
both the right wings are male and the left ones female, with no suffusion or mixing of color. 
£?ince describing P. Anticostiensis on page 10, Mr. Couper has made another entomo- 
logical tour to the Island of Anticosti, and, among other results of his most commendable 
enterprise, are some forty specimens of this species, taken at Ellis Bay, about 117 miles west 
of Fox Bay, where he took the types figured on plate II. I have examined twelve of these, 
male and female, and find they agree with the types and appear to be subject to scarcely any 
variation, except in the length of the tail, which varies in different examples from 3-16 to 
5-16 of an inch; the size of this appendage is, however, valueless for specific purposes, as in 
P. Philenor it is found from ^ to ^ of an inch, in P. Agamemnon from a mere tooth to nearly 
f of an inch, in P. Pamraon from J to § of an inch, and the same difference in length occurs 
in many others. 
Mr. Couper also secured the egg and larva ; the former, he states, “ are laid singly on the 
leaves of Archangelica Atropurpurea which occurs common throughout the whole extent of 
the Island ; the egg is spherical and pale yellow.” The larva, which I will figure on my 
next plate of diurnals, is pale green with a transverse row of black spots or dashes on each 
segment, the lateral ones running obliquely; from these spots emanate little points; unfortu- 
nately, Mr. Couper could not sojourn on the island long enough to obtain the fully matured 
larva; the one just described is | of an inch long. Mr. Couper also took at Anticosti this 
summer a dozen examples of Colias which will doubtless tend to increase the muddle into 
which that interesting genus has been thrown through the indefatigable labors of our lepidop- 
terists. 
A N T II OCII A R IS LANOEOLATA. Boisduv^. 
Ann. Ent. Soe., Fr. (1852.) 
Lucas, Rev. Zool., p. 338. (1852.) 
Anthocharis Edwards'i, Belir, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe., Yol. II, p. 304. (I860.) 
(PLATE VI, FIG. 5, tf.) 
Expands If inches. 
Antennae white, club black, tipped with white at extremity; head and body black above, 
beneath white. 
Upper surface white ; primaries, some black scales at- base ; a broken black or dark 
brown apical patch, varying in extent in different examples, but in none that I have seen is it 
as heavy as in A. Anson ides ; a black discal spot. In the secondaries the marbleing of under 
surface is partially visible ; some black at base as in primaries. 
Under surfa.ee white ; primaries, some fine brown reticulations near the anterior angle ; 
discal spot black. 
