I did not suppose that anything I worte on North American Butterflies was likely to find favour in Mr. Edward's eyes, but in a long cirticism of my paper on Œneis, which I have just seen in Canadian Entomologist, there are two or three points on which he has so much misunderstood or misrepresented me that I cannot pass them by, as I shall do the greater part of his remarks, as unworthy of notice.