THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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Last year I paid several visits to the British Museum, and made a 

 special study of the North American Graptas, having taken over with me 

 authentic specimens of nearly all the known species from my own collection 

 for comparison. Mr. Heron was absent on account of a breakdown of his 

 health, but when I had examined the same drawers in 1906 he told me 

 that they had been arranged by Mr. Elwes, and there was a memorandum 

 in Mr. Ehves's writing stating that he had arranged them in accordance 

 with the views of the leading North American entomologists, though he 

 did not concur in their views. 



Last year I found in the first drawer the following note : " The 

 arrangement of this drawer is only provisional. I have not studied the 

 very diffuse literature now. — H. J. E. 



"I have left the names on the labels to show what the Americans 

 call them." 



My notes on the contents are as follows : 

 Progne, 4 specimens. 



No. I \sf annus from Nepigon, 



Nos. 2, 3 and 4 are correct (Nos. 2 and 4 bred by J. Fletcher, 

 Ottawa, No. 3 also from Ottawa), from the Crowley bequest- 



Over a label 



Co 771 ma 



Harris 

 syn. D7'yas Edvv. 

 syn. Ha7'risii Edw. 



stand five specimens. 



No. I is progfie from Nova Scotia, below N. S. is " Redmayne ?" ; and the 

 speciaien has a pin label with the correct name. 



No. 2 is var. dry as (^ , and is labeled : 

 I believe this and following labels with name 



" Grapta c-aibum Linn." to be in 'Mr. 



Heron's writing. 



No. 3 is saiy7'us (^ , and is labeled : 



Nova Scotia. 

 Hewitson Coll. 

 Grapta c-albti77i Linn. 



N. America. 



Hewitson Coll. 

 Grapta c-albu77i Linn. 



