CATALOGUE OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS, MOSTLY COLLECTED 

 IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF HALIFAX AND DIGBY, NOVA 

 SCOTIA. By JOSEPH PERRIN, MacNab's Island, Halifax, 

 and JOHN RUSSELL, Digby, N. S. 



Read 15th February, 1909. 



In preparing this list no trouble has been spared to make 

 it as accurate as possible. Errors possibly exist in it, but in 

 the main we feel that it is correct. 



All specimens that could not easily be determined, were 

 submitted to the late Dr. James Fletcher, entomologist and 

 botanist of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, who in 

 turn sent the rarer or more difficult specimens to other 

 specialists, such as Dr Harrison G. Dyar, custodian of lepidop- 

 tera, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C.; Dr. J. B. 

 Smith of New Brunswick, N. J.; Rev. G. W. Taylor of 

 Departure Bay, British Columbia, and others ; and we now take 

 this opportunity of thanking these gentlemen for their kindness. 



The nomenclature adopted is that of Dr. H. G. Dyar's List 

 of North American Lepidoptera ( " Bulletin of the U. S. 

 National Museum," No. 52 ; Wash., 1902), and the numbers 

 prefixed are those used in that list. Our list contains 60 nom- 

 inal species and varieties of butterflies and 470 moths, total 530. 



The list is almost entirely founded on specimens collected 

 recently by the authors, the MacNab's Island (Halifax Harbour)* 

 records being by Mr. Pen-in and the Digby ones by Mr. 

 Russell. f Other localities referred to have affixed the name of 

 the one responsible for the record. 



There have also been inserted a few additional species, not 

 met by us, from specimens collected near Truro, Colchester 



*It may be mentioned that MacNabs Island is situated in the mouth of Halifax 

 Harbour. Fall River, to which reference is occasionally made in the list, is near 

 Waverley , Halifax co., about 16 miles from Halifax. 



t A set of Mr. Russell's specimens are now in the Provincial Museum at Halifax. 



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