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of the National Museum on Sussex street where the type specimens are 

 preserved, are filled with those forms of animal and vegetable life which 

 characterized the Cretaceous epoch. These will ever be, even in them- 

 selves, a monument to the industry and perseverance of Canada's palae- 

 ontologist and zoologist. H. M. Ami. 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Edited by J. Fletcher. 



Tabanus ATRATUS,Fab. Afine femaleof this large horse-fly has been 

 handed to me by Mr. Stephen Bresee, who took it at Sutton, Province 

 of Quebec. It has never yet been taken at Ottawa. J. F. 



Debis Portlandia, Fab. A fresh specimen of this pretty and rare 

 butter-fly was taken in the woods at Kirk's Ferry, P. Q., on the 9th July last 

 by Mr. A. P. Saunders. Mr. Saunders did not notice particularly but 

 thinks there were other specimens flying at the same time. J. F. 



The Bee Moth. Early in September I noticed just outside the en- 

 trance toone (the weakest) of my seven colonies of be^s a dead grub, evidently 

 one of the troublesome and injurious bee-moth grubs. I decided at 

 once to examine the hive, out of which it had probably come, or had 

 been carried by the bees, and on doing so soon found abundant 

 evidence of where the intruder had been, which was almost in the 

 centre of one of the brood frames. The bees, however, had proved 

 equal to the emergency, and had succeeded in dislodging their natural 

 enemy by cutting away the cells on both sides of the frame (which at 

 this time held brood nearly ready to hatch), and had made an opening 

 in the comb several inches in circumference. I may add that this took 

 place shortly after I had very materially increased the strength of the 

 hive by putting a number of young bees in it from another colony that 

 was particularly strong. I think that perhaps the inference from this 

 would be that so long as colonies of bees are in good condition as 

 regards strength, even if attacked by the bee-moth, they will themselves 

 as a rule get rid of their enemy, which they certainly do not appear to 

 have sufficient energy to do when in a weak state. 



PERCY H. SELWYN. 



