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what a correspondent has been kind enough to designate it already, " concise, 

 scientific and accurate." We are happy to announce that our labours will be 

 lightened and our pages improved by the addition of an Editorial Committee, 

 consisting of Messrs. Saunders, Reed and Denton, of London. The maga- 

 zine- — in consequence of various changes that have been made in the Society 

 in connection with its recent incorporation — will in future be printed and 

 published at London, Ont. All remittances and other business communi- 

 cations should be addressed to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Society, 

 E. Baynes Reed, Esq., London, Ont.; all articles, &c, for insertion, to the 

 general Editor, Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Trinity College School, Port Hope, 

 Ont., or to any member of the Editing Committee. 



With this number we close our second volume. On looking back over its 

 pages, we cannot refrain from congratulating ourselves upon the measure of 

 success that our little periodical has achieved, though at the same time we 

 are fully conscious of the many failures, shortcomings and imperfections that 

 have occurred during its career. Its chief value has consisted, all will no 

 doubt admit, in its being the means of bringing before the Entomological 

 world the investigations and discoveries of many workers in widely scattered 

 fields ; notably among whom we may be permitted to give honourable mention 

 to the name of our warmly esteemed friend, Mr. Wm. Saunders, of London. 

 Our friendly circle of correspondents and contributors — one and all of whom 

 we heartily thank for past favours — will not, we trust, diminish during the 

 progress of the new volume, but will widen out and include the names of 

 many more, till we receive tidings of the Insect world from every Province 

 and State of America, from every county and township of Ontario. 



March 29, 1871. 



REARING BUTTERFLIES FROM THE EGG. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, WEST VA. 



The results of my experiments with P. Ajax, as noticed in Nos. 8 and 9 

 of the Canadian Entomologist (Vol. ii. pp. 115 and 133), are as follows : 



From six larvae obtained from eggs of Ajax, deposited in captivity, 16th 

 May, 1870, I obtained two males, four females, 31arcellus, between 20th and 

 21th June. 



From twenty-four larvae from eggs of Ajax deposited 2nd June, I obtained 

 twelve males, ten females, all Marcelhis, between 3rd and 9th July, and one 

 chrysalis went over the winter. 



From five larvae from eggs of 3Iarcellns, deposited 7th June, I obtained 

 four female Marcettus between 4th and 9th July, and one chrysalis went over 

 the winter. 



