28 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



from Walshii as well as the other forms, and continued the experiments 

 the season through. Now, in Jan., 1872. Part ix of the But. N. A., which 

 contained AJax, issued, before the chrysalids which hibernated had given 

 imagos. But I had discovered enough during the two seasons, and by 

 outside observations, to enable me to say : " The summing up 

 therefore of this whole series of observations is this : Walshii 

 produces Walshii, Tdamonides and Marcellus the same season ; Tela- 

 nwnides produces Marcellus the same season and its own type in the 

 spring; Marcellus produces successive broods of Marcellus the same 

 season, and occasionally Telamonides, and the last brood produces Walshii 

 and Tela7nonides in the spring ; and whenever any of the chrysalids of either 

 brood of Marcellus pass the ivinter they produce the other two varieties 

 (forfns), and probably sometimes their own type (individual, i. e., Mar- 

 cellus, taken April, 1867). The chrysalids of Walshii that pass the winter 

 of 1 87 1-2 will probably produce Walshii or Telamonides." 



It seems to me that this statement is explicit as to Walshii and Tela- 

 monides together being the product of one or any lot of eggs laid by 

 Marcellus ^ the previous year. As to what the chrysalids of Walshii or 

 Telamonides might actually produce I could not then state with 

 certainty, for the reason given. Since that first account I have 

 spoken of these forms and their relationships in several papers, and it was 

 hardly necessary for the author of the " Butterflies," ten years later, to 

 call attention to a strange omission in my first account, even had there 

 been such an omission, when subsequent observations described by me 

 made the whole history clear. It certainly was not strange that I did not 

 state as fact more than I then knew. At all events, what I have not dis- 

 covered about Ajax no one has discovered, for my observations to this 

 day are the only ones on record. 



NOTE ON CHIONOBAS VARUNA. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS. 



After the description of this species in the Jan. No. was in type, I 

 received a letter from Mr. A. G. Butler, to whom I had sent an example, 

 with request to be informed if it was Tarpeia, spoken of in his Catalogue 

 of Satyrida as being N. American. Mr. Butler writes : " ^'our Chionobas 



