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Evans, of Trenton, Ont., and explained how it was made. Mr. 

 Evans has been very successful with it. 



Dr. Fletcher showed specimens of two species of neuropte- 

 roid insects found in winter on the surface of snow, apparently 

 Boreus calif ornicus, Pack., and Boreus unicolor, Hine. They 

 were collected by Mr. J. W. Cockle, at Kaslo, B.C., during the 

 past winter. An ichneumon parasite and the pupa of Grapta 

 interrogationis, and a beautiful pair of the British Columbia 

 Thecla dumetorum, Bdv., the under side of which, like that of 

 its close ally T. rubi, of Europe, is bright green, a colour seldom 

 seen among butterflies, were also exhibited, as well as specimens 

 of Leptarciia caUfornica, Wlk., and Brephos injans, Moeschl., 

 which superficially resembled each other very much, but are 

 in no way related to each other. Dr. Fletcher also spoke further 

 on insect traps, and urged the members to begin at once to lay 

 their plans and get apparatus in order for the coming season. 



A. H. 



LEUCOBREPHOS MIDDENDORFI, MEN. 



Three beautiful specimens of this very rare moth were 

 recently received from the Mayo River, Yukon Territory, by 

 Mr. Joseph Keele, of the Geological Survey Department. These 

 were collected by Mr. J. A. Davidson, of Duncan Creek, Y.T., on 

 April 16th, 1907. This moth is extremely rare in collections 

 and these specimens are important as showing the wide distribu- 

 tion of the invsect. The specimens were of an unusually dark 

 form, but are similar to one specimen reared by me from eggs 

 received from Mr. Norman Cridclle, of Aweme, Manitoba. This 

 specimen was one of abovit a dozen from the same batch of eggs, 

 the remainder of which were of the normal gray form. I have 

 also two specimens of the dark form w^hich were brought back 

 from Labrador in 1894, and were taken by Mr. A. P. Low during 

 his exploration of that coimtry. They were collected on the 

 portage at Grand Falls, Hamilton River, Labrador, on May 12th, 

 1894-. Although so exceedingly rare in collections, the insect 

 appears to be of very wide distribution, and, as it is also very 

 difficult to capture and appears very early in the year, it is 

 possible that it may have been overlooked in intervening districts. 

 It would be well for collectors to be on the alert to capture any 

 specimens of a black and white very active moth ^;hich they may 

 see early in the year in northern regions. "' ' ' 



T. Fletcher. 



