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week previously warm southerly winds had prevailed with little or no 

 rain, followed by a light frost on the morning of the 21st. At first sight 

 of the butterfly I recognized it as a stranger to our neighbourhood, and 

 with care succeeded in capturing it without further injury, if indeed such 

 were possible, as it was already a woeful looking object, the wings were 

 torn and badly denuded, and the poor creature hardly had the strength 

 to support itself the few yards it attempted to fly. For eight years I have 

 kept this sorry looking treasure hoping some day to learn its name and 

 history, and in this I have at last been successful. Poey gives a good 

 figure of the female in his Centurie des Lepidopteres de File de Cuba, 

 and it is well described by Boisduval in his Species gen. des 

 Lepidopteres, vol. j, p. 491, The present example is a large female 

 with the black border of the wings unusually broad, which variation is 

 mentioned by Boisduval. The most northern habitat that I can find is 

 given in French's Butterflies of the Eastern United States, as " Indian 

 River, Florida, Texas and Arizona," but I have had little opportunity for 

 investigating the subject, and it may be a more common visitor in the 

 north than I imagine. Prof. Grote, in his charming paper on the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of the N. A. Lepidoptera, published in the eigh- 

 teenth volume of this journal, has given us a very serviceable classifica- 

 tion of the origin of the N. A. fauna. Probably P. ilaire pertains to the 

 fourth table of his third category (p. 236), at least two of the species there 

 enumerated appear to have been taken here, viz., Thysania zenobia and 

 Brotis vulneraria. If, however, it breeds continuously in the Southern 

 States, its association with Erebus odora in Grote's second table (p. 235) 

 would seem more natural, and would render its occurrence here less 

 surprising. E. P. Van Duzee, Buffalo, N. Y. 



The second paper on " Popular and Economic Entomology," which 

 was promised for this number, has been prepared by Mr. Fletcher, but 

 owing to the cuts required for its illustration being in the hands of the 

 printers of the Annual Report at Toronto, it has been found necessary at 

 the last moment to defer it till next month. 



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