. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1902, . Fig. 5. Mediterranean species of our British Columbian insect fauna seem to me to have a much nearergeneral resemblance to European species, than to those of Eastern Canada and the New EnglandStates. For examples : Parnassius Clodius, Men., has a likeness to Par)UissUis Apollo, Aii^onides, Bdv., to PoiUia Daplidice, Fab,2 EN. 18 THE REPORT OF IHE No. 19 Melitiea rubicvnda, H. Ed., to MeliUea Artemis, Fab. Ccnoiiympha inornata, Edw., to Cunonympha Pamphilns, Westwood. Such questions as these might come under tlie head
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1902, . Fig. 5. Mediterranean species of our British Columbian insect fauna seem to me to have a much nearergeneral resemblance to European species, than to those of Eastern Canada and the New EnglandStates. For examples : Parnassius Clodius, Men., has a likeness to Par)UissUis Apollo, Aii^onides, Bdv., to PoiUia Daplidice, Fab,2 EN. 18 THE REPORT OF IHE No. 19 Melitiea rubicvnda, H. Ed., to MeliUea Artemis, Fab. Ccnoiiympha inornata, Edw., to Cunonympha Pamphilns, Westwood. Such questions as these might come under tlie head of Geographical Entomology. But it is (2) to the importation of insects and insect productions as merchandise that I wouldmore particularly draw your attention. And first to the importation of silk and silken goods. The silk manufacture has been carried on in China from time immemorial. Its beginning—like that of the cultivation of grain—has been lost trace of in the lapse of ages. In the thirdcentury of the Christian era, silk brought
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