PAPILIO VIII. 
arcs of circles, the curve in front; below these stripes and in same line, from third 
to last segment, is a spot on each, which on third and fourth is lunate, but from 
fifth to twelfth is a right-angled triangle, one of the short sides being in line wi 
the posterior edge of the stripe, the other parallel with the line of the stigmata; 
there is also an infra-stigmatal row of spots, one on each segment after the first, 
and there is a single spot on each leg and pro-leg; the last segment has three spots 
on dorsal line, the central round, the others abbreviated stripes ; one such stripe 
also on either side; at the intersection of the segments from second to last, a 
black stripe crosses the dorsum and ends midway down the side ; color bright pea- 
green. changing to yellow-green on sides and beneath; the legs tipped with black ; 
head ob-ovate, yellow-green, striped vertically with black ; retractile horns bright 
yellow. (From an example preserved in alcohol, and from Mr. Couper, in lit. 
Fig. 6.) 
Bremcauda was first made known by Professor Packard, who prefaced Mr. 
Saunders’ description by these words: “ Mr. Saunders has received from fet. Johns, 
Newfoundland, several specimens of a butterfly, one of which,I have be ore me, 
and which seems to be a very remarkable variety of Asterias. Thenex no ice 
on record is from Mr. Couper, in Can. Ent.,Vol. IV, p. 202 Nov. 1872, who, m 
a paper on the insects taken by him that year on the Island of Anticosti, mentions 
bavin- four specimens of this butterfly. In 1873, Mr. Couper again visited this 
island, and succeeding in taking many more, as well as in discovering the larva 
and e-g. In Can. Ent, Vol. VI, p. 33, for February, 1874, he says that he had 
formerly taken a single specimen of Bremcauda on the coast of Labrador, and t la 
he had made inquiries as to its existence in Newfoundland, and is satisfied that i 
is a rare species on that island ; quoting from a correspondent, who states that he 
had seen but one specimen in three seasons, and further, that he had heard of ns 
butterfly at Cod Roy, on the western coast, and at Notre Dame Bay, on the north 
of the island. Mr. Couper continues: «I am confident that it becomes rare as 
we proceed down the south coast of Labrador towards the Straits of Belle Isle. 
Its true habitat is the island of Anticosti, where it occurs more abundantly than 
in Labrador or Newfoundland. It is met with occasionally at Mmgan, but more 
especially at the mouths of rivers east of Seven Islands.” Mr. Couper has kindly 
furnished me extracts from his note-book as follows : “ Bremcauda was noticed 
and a specimen taken at Ellis Bay, 14th June. From the latter date, as the 
weather became warm, forty specimens were taken up to 26tli June. The fema e 
deposited eggs, 25th June, on Archangelica purpurea (see Plate), and 1 have 
also found eggs on Heracleum lanatum, but the former plant is its principal food, 
and occurs abundantly throughout the island. The egg is laid singly on the 
