THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



E VERES COMYNTAS— AMYNTULA. 



In working out the Evercs argfades group with Dr. Chapman and 

 Mr. Tutt certain definite specific conclusions have been arrived at. 

 Coretas is distinct from argiades, and decolor at a has been shown to be a 

 colour form of the former; this Mr. Tutt proves conclusively is the case 

 in the October and November numbers of the Entomologists' Record, 

 recently issued. In dealing with the Indian species Dr. Chapman and I 

 have found that species considered by De Niceville to be argiades resolve 

 themselves into at least three species, if not four. Whilst in China and 

 Japan we have the meeting place of both the European species and the 

 Indian species almost in a state of flux. Argiades and a variety certainly 

 occur there ; parrhasias occurs in Japan, dipora apparently occurs in 

 China, though we require a little more material to settle the question, and 

 without going into the species occurring in the Malay Region and 

 Australia, which are now well known, we are left in a state of some 

 uncertainty with those obtaining in the Nearctic Region. Comyntas is a 

 very close ally of argiades; in fact, from the genitalia, we should hardly be 

 justified in separating them ; amyntula appears to be a form going along 

 the lines that coretas has gone over, but as yet not having gone so far, 

 perhaps, but in England we suffer from a lack of material to enable us to 

 investigate the matter. This, therefore, is the object of my note. Will 

 Canadian entomologists help us? Will any American entomologists who 

 may read these words also help us ? If so, we shall be most grateful. I 

 shall be glad to purchase (or to make a return by way of exchange) as 

 much material from different localities as I can get. I am desirous of 

 obtaining all the forms allied to comyntas, and I should like to have 

 specimens from East and West, from North and South, from the Central 

 States ; in fact, from as many localities as possible. I should then be able 

 to deal with the whole group in, I hope, a satisfactory manner, and I trust 

 by the correspondence that may possibly ensue with our fellow-observers 

 across the water that some new and perchance unrecorded facts concerning 

 the life-histories of the species may be brought to light. — George I. 

 Bethune-Baker, 19 Clarendon Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. 



We regret to learn from Science (Dec. n, 1908) that "Mr. A. H. 

 Kirkland, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State work against the 

 Gypsy and Brown-tail moths, has resigned his office." 



