ORDINARY MEETINGS. XIX 



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 pare 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 Lyccenidoe and Hesperidca 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, Pyrameis 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 (Trans. N. S. I. N. S., 

 vol. vii.) 



Argynnis atlantis. This species, which resembles aphrodite, does not 

 appear in the lists of Belt, Jone*, or Silver, but Rev. C. J. S. Bethune 



