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oblique line before the apices. Hind wings fuscous with whitish fringes. 

 Expanse 24 mil. Hab. Vancouver Island, Coll. Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 

 5927. This species is narrower winged than fuscicostellus and paler, more 

 ochrey colored. 



Crambus (Propexus) edonis, n. s. 



£ $ . Male antennas lengthily pectinate. Labial palpi excessively 

 long. Front flat, not acuminate and produced as in vulgivagellus. On 

 these characters I found the new group, including in it pexellus, pectinifer, 

 edonis and an unnamed Texan form, perhaps the same as the latter. The 

 new species is allied to pexellus ; male antennas bipectinate ; fore wings 

 pale salmon red, without markings, dusted on the interspaces longi- 

 tudinally, and especially terminally with fuscous. Palpi dark externally. 

 Beneath dark fuscous ; costa of primaries reddish over basal two-thirds. 

 Legs fuscous. Hind wings fuscous with paler fringes. Fringes on pri- 

 maries fuscous. Thorax fuscous ; tegulse and head reddish. Expanse 36 

 mil. Hab. Kansas, Prof. Snow. One fresh specimen, No. 288 ; one 

 male, two females from Mr. Ashton. The females are plainer and more 

 faintly colored, the antennae are simple, the hind wings paler. 



I have received from Texas a form which has paler hind wings in the 

 male and has not the reddish tinge of edonis. Entirely pale dusty ochre. 

 Male antennae bipectinate. Wings apparently narrower than in edonis, but 

 as long, longer than in pexellus. Fore wings ochrey with faint fuscous 

 shades and traces of brighter longitudinal tintings. Xo markings. Hind 

 wings whitish at base, becoming dusty ochrey outwardly. Expanse £ 

 $3, £ 38 mil. Hab. Texas (Belfrage, No. 454; Belfrage's number for 

 pexellus is 455). Three specimens examined. This form may fall in with 

 edonis on the discovery of fresher specimens, but it is not unlikely distinct. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



I have again to record the scarcity of butterflies during the past year, 

 not only in the vicinity of St. John, but in other parts of this Province and 

 in Nova Scotia. This scarcity is particularly noticeable in some of our 

 more common species, which a few years ago were so numerous. I did 

 not observe a single specimen of P. cardui or P. huntera last summer, 

 although the larvae were so abundant in 1878. Pieris rapaz and Colias 

 philodice are fast disappearing from this locality. Botanists who have 

 visited distant parts of N. B. during the past summer, in their collecting 



