Ill BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



ARTICLE IV 



THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 



By William MclNTOSH. 



(Read December 6th, 1898.) 



This list of New Brunswick Butterflies can only be considered a 

 preliminary one, as very little collecting has been done in this 

 province. There can be no doubt that with a more extended knowledge 

 of the insect life of New Brunswick this list will be found incomplete. 



In the past collections have been made by officers of the ai my and 

 navy, but we have no detailed record of their captures. Among the 

 early collectors whose specimens have remained in the province the 

 following are perhaps worthy of mention. 



A collection of Lepidoptera captured on the Ketchum estate, 

 Fredericton, by Capt. Moody, A. D. C. to Governor Gordon. This 

 collection is in the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton. 



A collection of miscellaneous insects taken in the vicinity of St. 

 John, by Mrs. C. E. Heustis. Mrs. Heustis was for a number of 

 years a contributor to the Canadian Entomologist, and may be con- 

 sidered the pioneer entomologist of the Natural History Society of 

 New Brunswick. 



A collection of miscellaneous insects captured in St. John County, 

 by Mr. H. E. Goold. This collection contains a number of very 

 interesting species. 



A number of insects, principally Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, col- 

 lected in Kings County, N. B., by Mr. Gibson Williamson, of Oak 

 Point. 



These three collections are in the museum of the Natural History 

 Society of New Brunswick. At the present time these combined col- 

 lections contain less than a thousand specimens, and so represent but 

 a fraction of the species indigenous to this section of Eastern Canada. 



During the past two years much interest has been evinced in this 

 branch of nature study, and during the present year a number of col 

 lectors have been working, o\cr 3,500 specimens having been taken 



