184 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
You have already heard from our Secretary-Treasurer’s Report the 
satisfactory condition of our finances and other business matters; I need 
not therefore trespass further upon your patience and attention. Heartily 
thanking you, gentlemen, for your kindness towards myself and my 
colleagues during our term of office, and for the honour which you have 
conferred upon me by calling me to preside over you, 
I have the honour to remain, with best wishes for the advancement 
and prosperity of the Society, 
Your humble and obedient servant, 
CHARLES J. S. BETHUNE, 
President Entomological Society of Ontario. 
Trinity College School, Port Hope, Sept., 1873. 
ON THE IDENTITY OF GRAPTA DRYAS WITH COMMA. 
BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, W. VA. 
On the 3oth of July Mr. T. L. Mead, at Coalburgh, took two females of 
Grapta Dryas and tied them in a muslin bag to a branch of Hop-vine. 
The result was a large number of eggs, laid on the leaves and in the 
bag. On the 5th the eggs were all hatched. The larvæ we carried 
through safely, and on the 21st the first ones began to change to chry- 
salids. In course of the next three days all were changed, upwards of 
sixty. Towards maturity some of the larve were white, as represented in 
the plate of Dryas, in the ‘‘ Butterflies of North America.” The others 
were black, like the larve represented in plate of Comma in the same 
volume. On the 3oth the imagines began to appear, and nearly all are 
true Comma, but six are Dryas, two f and four 2. The relation of 
the two forms to each other is therefore similar to that of the two forms 
of Znterrogationis. The name of the species should be G. comma, Harris, 
and the one form the type figured in my plate as comma, should be called 
comma var. Harisii, and the other comma var. dryas, the two being equal 
varieties of one species and not one a variety of the other. 
