ORDINARY MEETINGS. Saline 
An examination of Miss Eaton’s paper suggests that more thorough 
search will doubtless show that many of the species mentioned therein 
as uncommon, are really generally less rare than stated in her notes. 
The many species spoken of as not common, and a comparison with the 
the relative abundance of the same species about Halifax and elsewhere 
in the eastern part of the Dominion, prompts such a surmise. In some 
cases the difference between the abundance of various species in this 
locality and in the Truro district, is doubtless a local difference, and 
therefore of great interest. There is no doubt that many species fre- 
quently met with in the western part of the province, are rare or even 
unknown on the Atlantic coast, and vice versa. For this reason, reliable 
annotated lists of species occurring at various stations throughout Nova 
Scotia are absolutely necessary before we can present a correct statement 
of the general abundance of the various species throughout the whole 
province. 
Comparison with the catalogues of Belt, Jones, and Silver, makes it 
probable that a number of other species will yet be reported from Truro. 
The Lycenide and Hesperide will doubtless furnish many representa- 
tives. The speaker was surprised at not finding in the list a few species 
which are common about Halifax, and whose occurrence at Truro might 
be expected. For example, Pyramezs cardui is common near this city, as 
well as generally throughout the eastern provinces of Canada, while P. 
huntera is abundant some years whilst rare in others. P. atalanta, 
which Belt and Jones considered rare or not common, Mr. Piers has 
found plentiful about Halifax where it has doubtless become more com- 
mon during recent years owing to the increase of food. Danais archippus, 
although rare near Halifax, was said by the late Mr. Downs, on the 
authority of Mr. John Winton, to be not so rare along the valley of the 
Shubenacadie. Search should be made for all of these species in the 
vicinity of Truro. 
Mr. Piers also made the following remarks upon a few of the species 
mentioned in Miss Eaton’s paper : 
Vanessa milberti. Both Belt and Jones reported that this species 
had been taken at Truro and Windsor, but had not been observed near 
Halifax. It is included in Mr. Silver’s recent list (Zrans. NV. S. I. N.S., 
vol. vit.) 
Argynnis atlantis. This species, which resembles aphrodite, does not 
appear in the lists of Belt, Jones, or Silver, but Rev. C. J. S. Bethune 
