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Strecker’s irony, where, like a beetle on a pin, I am now supposed to be 
wriggling and writhing in great discomfort. 
I do not know Mr. Strecker and have never had any correspondence 
with him, but I do feel sorry for him, that he should in his anger have 
allowed himself to use language so discorteous in reference to one who 
was a perfect stranger to him, without taking pains to enquire whether it 
avas deserved or not. I can scarcely designate such a proceeding under 
such circumstances, as anything less than contemptible, and quite 
unworthy of a naturalist or a gentleman. 
Mr. Strecker further remarks in the paragraph following that last 
quoted : ‘‘ However, I believe this is distinct from Brevicauda, and if it 
be not, ¢ ts an absurdity to retain that name; the probability after all is 
that Brevicauda and Anticostiensis (if they be not the same) are both 
varieties of Asterius.” Why Mr. Strecker considers it absurd to call a 
species drevicauda he does not deign to inform us ; can it be that he has 
a conscientious objection to any further references to the tails of insects 
under any circumstances, or is it the evident superiority in length and 
grandiloquence of sound which Ayticostiensis has over brevicauda which 
makes the use of the latter to his mind so absurd? It does seem strange 
that with all Mr. Strecker’s anxiety to avoid “ re-christening old species,” 
he should astonish the Entomological world with such a name as Ayi- 
costicnsis nov. sp., when at the same time he states his belief in the 
probability of its being but a variety of aséerias. Such a proceeding 
seems at least contradictory, and, it will appear to some, as if he had thus 
placed himself, in his anxiety to have his name attached to a species, in 
the very position he professes a wish to avoid, and which he has 
designated in such choice ! language.—W. SAUNDERS, London, Ontario. 
To CoLLECTORS.-T am very anxious to obtain the eggs, larvæ in different 
stages,and chrysalis of Grapta faunus, and I will offer as a reward to any 
one who will obtain them for me, Vol. I of the ‘“ Butterflies of North 
America,” or Vol. II, asit shall appear. Where this species is common, that 
is, in the highlands of New York and New England, or British America, it 
would not be difficult to obtain eggs at the proper season, and from these 
all the rest would follow. In the Catskill Mountains, the fresh specimens 
of Æaunus appear about the 1st of August, and by the 15th are plenty. 
Allowing eleven days for chrysalis, the mature larve would be found 
between the 2oth of July and the 5th of August. From egg to chrysalis 
