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Laurentian hills. The hour of departure was rapidly nearing so several 

 of the Leaders had to be omitted and Dr. McKay appropriately con- 

 cluded with a very enthusiastic expression of the pleasure and profit 

 with which he had followed the proceedings of the afternoon. The 

 knowledge which he had thus acquired of the working methods of the 

 Club, he hoped to utilize in connection with the natural history society 

 which existed in Halifax. The city was reached at 8 p.m., and electric 

 cars were in waiting to carry home the satisfied field-naturalists. (Ed.) 



BREPHOS INFANS, moeschler, AT OTTAWA. 



A good specimen of this rare and beautiful moth was taken on April 

 1 2th in the firwoods behind Rideau Hall by Lady Marjorie A. Hamil- 

 ton-Gordon. One had been seen at the same spot two days previously, 

 flying high up among the trees. B. infans is a very showy moth ; it 

 expands over an inch and a quarter, having the upper wings of a deep 

 mottled brown crossed by two white bands towards the tips ; the 

 under wings are bright orange-scarlet margined with black, and have 

 also a broad black band running from the base to the anal angle 

 from the end of which a narrow zigzag extensions runs across the 

 middle of the wing. 



The genus Brephos belongs to the small family Brephid^e of which 

 there are only five species catalogued from North America, three of 

 which belong to Brephos and two to Leucobrephos. Dr. Packard says of 

 this family as follows (Guide to the Study of Insects, p. 316) : 



" In Brephos the hind wings are bright orange, the body is hairy 

 and the antennre are ciliated ; the abdomen is slender, and the wings 

 are broader than usual. The larva is smooth, elongate, with 16 legs, 

 though the first two abdominal pairs are useless for walking ; hence the 

 larva has a semi-looping gait. It feeds on trees and makes a slight 

 cocoon in moss or under bark. B. infans Moeschler inhabits Labrador 

 and New England. It flies early in April before the snow has left the 

 ground." 



Lady Marjorie has collected several other good insects this spring 

 but the species mentioned above, has previously been looked for in 

 vain by Ottawa collectors. 



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