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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The classification of the Lepidoptera which is used is original with 

 the author. It has been already presented in the American Naturalist, 

 where I have had occasion to notice it. In rejecting the classification of 

 Prof. Comstock, the author argues that the frenulum is of small value in 

 classification, because both frenulum and jugum are present in some 

 Jugatce, and the frenulum is absent in some Frenat*. While we may 

 admit this argument for what it is worth, it seems that Dr. Packard 

 entirely misses the great cumulative force of the evidence adduced by 

 Prof. Comstock and others for these suborders. Classifications founded 

 on the venation alone [Hampson], the wing scales [Kellogg], and the 

 antennae [Bodine] give the same suborders. 1 have also shown that the 

 larval characters do not support Dr. Packard's view. But Dr. Packard 

 gives no weight to larval characters, in spite of the implication in the title. 



Harrison G. Dvar. 



NOTES. 

 CoLiAS C/ESONiA.— Messrs. C. T. Hills and C. H. Tyris captured no 

 less than fifteen specimens of this Southern butterfly (Fig. 20) on the nth 

 pf June, besides worn 

 specimens that they let 

 go. " They were flying 

 quite abundantly, mostly 

 in a south-easterly direc- 

 tion, crossing the Humber 

 River near Toronto, where 

 the Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 way bridge is." One speci- 

 men was also taken by them 

 on June 14, near Little 

 York. This butterfly has 

 only once before been recorded from Ontario, having been taken on Long 

 Point, Lake Erie. 



Papilio Ajax. — At the end of May, and again on the iSth of June, 

 a single specimen of this butterfly was seen at Port Hope, Out. It has 

 never before been observed so far east in this Province. In Toronto 

 four specimens have been seen by Mr. C. T. Hills during the month of 



June this year. 



Mailed July 6th. 



Fig. 20. 



