8 B. C. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Vancouver Island were well to the front in the first great work written 

 on this family of moths in North America. Over forty species of 

 Geometers are mentioned by Packard as being taken in Victoria by 

 Mr. Crotch on that trip. 



The work of the late Rev. G. W. Taylor, from the time he settled 

 on Vancouver Island in 1877 until the formation of the B. C. Ent. Socy. 

 in 1901, and of which Mr. Taylor was the first president, is fully treated 

 of in Mr. Day's paper already alluded to, as is also the valuable work 

 of the late Capt. R. V. Harvey. 



The next active collector that we have record of was the late Mr. 

 W. H. Danby, who came here from New York about the year 1888. 

 He collected a number of species in and around Victoria and Gold-. 

 stream, specimens of which were sent to his old time New York friend, 

 Mr. B. Neumogen, who was himself a w-ell known entomologist at that 

 time, and who described many of Mr. Danby's captures as new, naming 

 two of them after Mr. Danby, viz., Diacrisia danbyi and Gluphisia 

 danbyi. 



In 1896 the Rev. Geo. Hulst published a work on the "Classification 

 of the Geometrina of North America," which was the first revision of 

 this family since Packard's Monograph in 1876, just twenty years pre- 

 vious. In this publication Hulst described a number of new species, 

 several of them being species sent to him by Mr. Danby from Victoria, 

 one of which was named Paraptera danbyi in honour of the collector. 

 (As regards this particular geometer it is a most singular thing that 

 although it was described nearly twenty-five years ago, it has not been 

 found in any other locality than Victoria, B. C, and even there is only 

 taken in a somewhat limited area. It is called the big winter moth and 

 emerges about the middle of November. The females are wingless.) 

 In 1897 Mr. Danby moved to Rossland, B. C, where he collected actively 

 for several years. Amongst his captures in this district there were 

 many that were naturally new to B. C, and included several new to 

 science, amongst which was Jubarella danbyi, named by Dr. Hulst in 

 1898. 



In passing I may say that Mr. Danby died at his home in Victoria 

 last May. He had been in failing health for some years, in fact for the 

 three years preceding his death he had been partially paralyzed, the 

 result of several strokes. 



Associated with Mr. Danby in entomological work was Mr. C. de 

 Blois Green, who had a ranch at Fairview. Mr. Green collected diurnals 

 almost exclusively, and it was from this district that our first records 

 from the Interior were obtained. In those early days there does not 

 seem to have been any collections made in the other orders of insects, 

 excepting perhaps Coleoptera, at any rate no reference is made to them 

 in any of the local literature of that time. The first record of Coleoptera 

 that I can find is a list by the late Rev. G. W. Taylor in 1885, entitled 



