TO 



Prof. WILLIAM SAUNDERS, F. R. S. C. 



OF LONDON, ONTARIO, 



Author of numerous and most -valuable icritinyx on American 



Entomology, loth practical and scientific, Editor of the 



Canadian Entomologist, 



this work is most gratefully dedicated in remembrance 



of many kindnesses bestowed by him upon his obliged 



and life-long friend and fellow-laborer, 



THE AUTHOR. 



