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THE CANADIAN JOURNAL 
NEW SERIES. 
No. XLITI.—FEBRUARY, 1863. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME SPECIES OF NOCTURNAL 
LEPIDOPTERA, FOUND IN CANADA. 
BY THE REV. CHARLES J. S. BETHUNE, M. Ae 
COR. MEME. ENT. SOC. PHILADA., AND SOC. OF NAT. SCI., BUFFALO. 
Tux following descriptions of Canadian Moths have been prepared 
with a view to second the efforts now being made by Professor Hincks 
for the accumulation of materials for a “ Fauna Canadensis.” In the 
September number of the Journal, he directed attention to the want 
of information respecting almost every department of Natural History 
in this country, and expressed his desire that some attempt should be 
made both to facilitate present investigations, and to render whatever 
is already known available for the production hereafter of a general 
work on Canadian Zoology. In the department of Entomology, one 
_ of the chief difficulties in the way of its successful pursuit,—that 
arising, namely, from the want of reliable books upon the subject,— 
has lately been lessened to a considerable extent. The Smithsonian 
Institution, in carrying out its great design of “increasing and diffu- 
sing knowledge among men,” has during the last five years, published 
several valuable works on Insects, for the especial purpose of facilita- 
ting the study of this branch of natural history. These works have 
been prepared by some of the best authorities on the orders of which 
they respectively treat, and are certainly the most useful of any on thé 
-ubject that have yet‘appeared on this Continent. The most recently 
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