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was generally too much wind for large collections to be ma-ie. On 

 22ncl May an expedition was made to the locality for Thecla Niphon at 

 Chelsea, and several specimens were secured. On the same day the 

 spring broods of Aryijnnis BeUona and A. Myrina were observed, as 

 Wfll as the winter form Iliemalis of Pieris Oleracea. Good specimens 

 of Lyccena Lucia and A. Violacea were also collected. 



Several uusucoessful attempts were made to find Fenesica Tarqui- 

 nius in the locality where Mr. Hanham found it abundantly in 1879. 



On 1st July a sub-excursion of the branch visited the Mer Bleue 

 where Chrysophaais Epixanthe and G. Thoe were collected in numbers, 

 and the first specimen of Grapta Interrogationis was recorded for this 

 locality. This species was subsequently bred in its two forms Fabricii 

 and U/titrosa from larva? collected on Uiinus Americana. The Theclas, 

 usually so abundant upon the flowers of Rhus Tijphina and Asclepins 

 Coriiuti in the first })art of July, wei'e conspicuous by their absence. 

 This scai'city was also a noticeable fact concerning the common Clouded- 

 Sulphur butterfly tolias Philodice. Not half a dozen specimens of the 

 spring brood were seen, and it was very scarce in the autumn also. 

 The only insect which was at all aljundant was Danais Arc/iippuf. 



A few interesting ca[)ture3 of moths have to be recorded. 

 Uarrisinieinna tribiynai i, parent of the rtiuarkable Zigzag Caterpillar, 

 was taken at light, and Fiat^ce7'ura /urcilla, a rare moth the larva of 

 which feeds upon I'iniis >Strobus, was bred from larvae taken last 

 summer at Hull, P.Q. This locality still ranks amongst the highest 

 as a rich collecting gi-ound. Here jE:ieria exitiosa, the peach borer, was 

 observed by Mr. Harriiigbon for the first time in this locality. The 

 I'aspberry root borer, jEjeria ruhi, was too abundant in many gardens 

 at Ottawa. Some fine specimens were bred from garden raspberries, the 

 canes of which were in m my quarters badly injured. Cutworms ware 

 not so abunJa'.it as usual, llwlena devastatrix, however, was most 

 frequently complained of, and did a considerable amount of damage. 

 Another iuteiesting species of this genus, //. mactata, was bred by Mr. 

 Harrington from the flowtrs of Gi/pripedium spectahile which it had 

 attacked severely in Dow's Swamp. 



The item of most interest, however, which was observed during 

 the past year was the increase and extension of the colony of the maple 



