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years ago I received a specimen from my brother in Campbellton, 
N.B., and soon after specimens from the late Mr. Caulfield, of Montreal. 
This year Mr. Fletcher took several at the Experimental Farm at the 
end of May, and I captured one at Eastman's Springs. W. H, H. 
Desmocerus pal/iatus Forst. On June 14th I took a pair of these 
beautiful longicorns upon an Elder bush, and on the 26th received one 
from Col. Chamberlin, which he had taken in his garden in New Edin- 
burgh. The larva lives in the stems of the Elder, and the beetles, 
though not common, can usually be found by a careful examination of 
the shrubs in June. It is perhaps the handsomest of our Cerambycidce, 
especially when alive and in the sun light. It is almost an inch long, of 
a deep steel-blue colour, and with a bright yellow band across the base 
of the elytra, from which it derives its name of the Cloaked Desmo- 
cerus. W. H. H. 
Dityhis cceruleus Rand. While at Casselman (June 10th) two fine 
examples of this usually rare beetle were taken, almost accidentally. 
The first crawled up on a log where we were collecting Tritoma hume- 
talis in fungi, and the second came crawling up to us as we were lunch- 
ing. This beetle seems to inhabit swampy areas, as last June we cap, 
tured specimens in a beaver-meadow at Sudbury, and another was taken 
about the same time at the St. Louis Dam by Mr. J. A. Guignard. The 
western species of this genus seem to be more abundant, as numerous 
specimens have been received from British Columbia. W. II. H. 
Ergates spiculatus Lee. A fine female of this beetle has been received 
from Rev. Father Dontenwill, O.M.I., now principal of St. Louis 
College, New Westminster, B.C., who a few years ago was a frequent 
attendant at our Monday afternoon lectures. E. spiculatus is the largest 
beetle found in Canada, and belongs ro the Longicorns or wood-borers. 
The present specimen measures 2 ; ;- ; inches from the front of the head 
to the end of the body, and inch across the base of wing cases. J. F. 
Ar^ynnis Triclaris Hub, in the Ottawa District. I was much surprised 
and pleased at taking a few specimens of this rare butterfly in the Mer 
Bleue, on 13th and 14th June. It is a northern species found in 
Labrador, at Hudson Bay and in the Rocky Mountains. The size and 
general appearance when on the wing are similar to A. Myrina i but the 
