l02 lllE CANADIAN liJSltOMULuGisT. 



Mature larva. — One incli and three-quarters long. Body colour 

 dark madder-brown, dotted with gray, and almost hidden by jet black 

 bristly tufts which spring from jet black warts — these warts are arranged 

 transversely in the middle of each segment. Along the sides is a row, closely 

 two-fold, of chestnut-coloured patches. Head and fore legs glossy black. 



Note. — Every larva of i lie batch 7vas true to this description. 



On August 19th, the larva formed a slight web, with hairs from its 

 body intermingled with the meshes. The web was placed • between 

 leaves at the bottom of the breeding-cage. 



Chrysalis. — First waxen in colour, then chestnut, and then very 

 dark brown; plump, seven-tenths of an inch long, three tenths in diam- 

 eter, and terminating in two clusters of spines — 5 in each cluster. These 

 spines taper regularly and are terminated with small disks. 



To allow the moth to escape the breast portion of the chrysalis-case 

 shells off in the form of an apple-pip. 



The indications are that the much-spotted Spilosomas (one of which 

 I mentioned at the beginning of my paper, and five of which were taken, 

 in the neighbourhood of Quebec, in the season of 1897) hold the same 

 relationship to 6". cougrua as the much-spotted textors do to their type. 

 They answer exactly to the description of ^S". cu7iea given by Walker in 

 the B. M. list above mentioned. We cannot, however, be absolutely 

 sure on this point till we have bred moths from one of them. 



OBITUARY. 



By the demise of Dominique Napoleon St. Cyr, Esq., which occurred 

 in Quebec on the 3rd March instant, from congestion of the lungs, at the 

 aoe of 74 years, natural science has lost a worthy student and education 

 a hearty promoter. He was born at Nicolet, P. Que., and educated at 

 the college there. In 1867 he was admitted a notary public. Previous 

 thereto he had been a model school and academy teacher. He was 

 returned, in the Conservative interest, to the Legislative Assembly, Que., 

 as member for the county of Champlain, at the general elections in 1875 

 and again in 1878. Going out of politics, he took up his residence in 

 Quebec, and was appointed Curator to the Provincial Government's 

 museum in the Parliament Buildings. Under his practical care and 

 thorough knowledge of science, what appeared to be a heterogeneous 

 conglomeration of specimens of all sorts, assumed shape as a very nicely 

 classified museum. In it is preserved the valuable entomological collec- 

 tion of Abbe' Provencher, which is, of itself, well worth a visit to students. 

 As an entomologist and botanist Mr. St. Cyr will be much missed. His 

 successor as Curator of the Provincial Government museum is Leonidas 

 Larue, Esq., an M. D. of Laval University. J. Eveleigh Treffry. 



