ENTOMOLOGIOAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



while the scientific name is given in italics, or in brackets at the end of the description, 

 and the same prominence was, I found, given to |)opular names in the beautiful economic 

 exhibit from the Entomological Division of the l)e[);iitment of Agriculture in the ^I. S. 

 Government building at the World's Fair ; but it is not necessary to follow this custom, 

 and we could very well print the scientitic name first in large type and the popular 

 name second in smaller type as is done by Mr. Scudder in his " Butterflies of New 

 England." 



But if it be agreed that the adoption of popular names is on the whole desirable, is 

 it practicable ? No doubt it is for a limited fauna like that of England or New England, 

 but is it for the whole of North America ? 



Who will undertake to invent suitable popular names for the upwards of sixty 

 species of Argynnis, the nearly forty species of Melitiea, the fifty s; ecies of Thecla, the 

 equa: number of species of Lycaena, or the upwards of ninety species now grouped under 

 the generic name Pamphila t 



I confess the idea appears to me utterly hopeless and impracticable. 



THE BUTPERFLIES OF THE EASTERN PROVINCES OF CANADA. 



By Re,-. C. J. S. Bethune, Pout Hope, Ontario. 



The following list of the butterflies of the Eastern Provinces of Canada has been 

 prepared in order to bring together in convenient form all the localities that have been 

 published as well as those that have come under my own observation. The list is as 

 complete as I can at present make it, but no doubt there are many collectors in different 

 parts of the country who could add largely to the localities given, and possibly add a few 

 more species to those here recorded. The time of fliglit and the food-plants are given in 

 most instances. 



The question of nomenclature and arrangement has been a difficult one to decide. 

 It will be observed that I have followed the order of families and genera given in Dr. J. 

 B. Smith's " List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America,' (Philadelphia, 1891), and have for 

 the most part adopted the nomenclature of Mr. W. H. Edwards's '' Revised Catalogue of 

 the Diurnal Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico," (Philadelphia, 1884). For the 

 sake of convenience I have added in brackets Mr. Scudder's name for the species when- 

 ever it differs from that which I have employed. 1 have also followed Mr. Edwar-^s in 

 beginning the specific names with a capital letter as they are nearly all proper names and 

 seldom adjectives. 



In the j)reparation of this list the records of the following authors and observers 

 have been gone over for localities in the Province of Ontario : Messrs. D. W. Beadle, 

 St. Catharines; J. M. Denton, London; J. D. Evans, Sudbury: G. Geddes, Toronto; 

 Rev. W. Kirby, ( " Fauna Boreali- Americana : Insecta " ) ; Theodore L. Mead, Oviedo, 

 Florida; Prof. J. Macoun, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa: J. Alston Moffat, 

 London ; J. Pettit, Grimsby : E. Baynes Reed, London. For both the provinces of 

 Ontario and Quebec : Messrs. B. Billings, Ottawa ; W. H. Edwards ( " Butterflies of 

 North America, etc.) ; J. Fletcher, Ottawa; Prof. W. Saunders, Ottawa ; S. H. Scudder 

 (" Butterflies of the New England States and Canada"). For the Province of Ouebec 

 alone: Dr. R. Bell, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa; J. G. Bowles, Montreal : F. 

 B. Caulfield, Montreal ; W. Couper, Montreal ; W. S M. D'Urban, Montreal ; Rev^ T. 

 W. Fyles, South Quebec ; P. H. Gosse, Compton, (" Canadian Naturalist ") ; J. G. Jack, 

 Chateauguay Basin; H. H. Lyman. Montreal; A. F. Winn, Montreal. For Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick : Mrs Heustis, St. John ; J. Matthew Jones, Halifax. 

 For Newfoundland : Capt. Brown and Mr. P. H. Gosse. For Labrador and Hudson 

 Strait: W. Couper and Lii ut. Payne. For Prince Edward Island : Prof. John Macoun. 



