THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 119 



Streckers irony, where, like a beetle on a pin, I am now supposed to be 

 wriggling and writhing in great discomfort. 



I do not know Mr. Strecker and have never had any correspondence 

 with him, but I do feel sorry for him, that he should in his anger have 

 allowed himself to use language so discorteous in reference to one who 

 was a perfect stranger to him, without taking pains to enquire whether it 

 was deserved or not. I can scarcely designate such a proceeding under 

 such circumstances, as anything less than contemptible, and quite 

 unworthy of a naturalist or a gentleman. 



Mr. Strecker further remarks in the paragraph following that last 

 quoted : ' k However, I believe this is distinct from Brevicauda, and if it 

 be not, it is an absurdity to retain that name ; the probability after all is 

 that Brevicauda and Anticostiensis (if they be not the same) are both 

 varieties of Asterius." Why Mr. Strecker considers it absurd to call a 

 species brevicauda he does not deign to inform us ; can it be that he has 

 a conscientious objection to any further references to the tails of insects 

 under any circumstances, or is it the evident superiority in length and 

 grandiloquence of sound which Anticostiensis has over brevicauda which 

 makes the use of the latter to his mind so absurd ? It does seem strange 

 that with ail Mr. Strecker's anxiety to avoid " re-christening old species," 

 he should astonish the Entomological world with such a name as Anti- 

 costiensis nov. sp., when at the same time he states his belief in the 

 probability of its being but a variety of asterias. Such a proceeding 

 seems at least contradictory, and, it will appear to some, as if he had thus 

 placed himself, in his anxiety to have his name attached to a species, in 

 the very position he professes a wish to avoid, and which he has 

 designated in such choice ! language. — W. Saunders, London, Ontario. 



To Collectors.-I am very anxious to obtain the eggs, larvae in different 

 stages, and chrysalis of Grapta f annus, and I will offer as a reward to any 

 one who will obtain them for me, Vol. I of the " Butterflies of North 

 America," or Vol. II, as it shall appear. Where this species is common, that 

 is, in the highlands of New York and New England, or British America, it 

 would not be difficult to obtain eggs at the proper season, and from these 

 all the rest would follow. In the Catskill Mountains, the fresh specimens 

 of Faunus appear about the ist of August, and by the 15th are plenty. 

 Allowing eleven days for chrysalis, the mature larvae would be found 

 between the 20th of July and the 5th of August. From tgg to chrysalis 



