112 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



to the confinement ; but this species in nature gave a larger proportion of 

 deformed specimens than I ever got from all my rearing in confinement. 

 Ltmas were very abundant. I took one dozen, and could have taken 

 three. I found several of them in a badly crippled condition, one par- 

 ticularly so ; on one side the wings were perfect, on the other they had 

 not expanded one iota, they did not even look as large as they should 

 have been when it burst the chrysalis. 



I saw Lunas flying for the first time in my life. They mount easily 

 and make good progress, but the operation is performed wholly by the 

 front wings ; the tails were crossed, and in one instance I felt certain the 

 curves were Hnked into each other, giving firmness and immobility to the 

 hind wings. I took a pair of Fackardia gcminata in coitu ; the singular 

 form of the object arrested my attention, without suspecting it was pro- 

 duced by insects. The sexes differ greatly, in both size and markings. 

 It has been an extremely rare insect in my experience, having never seen 

 the male before, so I was much pleased with my find. 



I took my first specimen of Datana angusii., and a single specimen of 

 a Datana of the ministra type, but with only three lines across the wings, 

 wavy and comparatively even. 



I also made my first capture of Halisidota maculata, although 

 Caryce and Tcssellata are amongst the most constant and plentiful 

 species in the Hamilton neighborhood. On the field day of our Society 

 during its annual meeting in August last, I took a Tussock larva on bass 

 wood that attracted my attention by its bright lemon yellow colour, and 

 square black spots down the centre of its back. Not knowing it I showed 

 it to Mr. Fletcher, and he pronounced it to be H. maciilata. During 

 September they were quite abundant on the maple shade trees about 

 London. 



During that June visit I took an Azelina hubnerata, which has been 

 in my experience a very rare and variable geometer. I am aware that 

 some of the forms that I have taken may have distinguishing names, but 

 I have not had them authoritatively determined. I also took five speci- 

 mens of Dryocampa rubiciinda, ray first captures of that attractive moth, 

 several Tortrixes and other small moths new to me, which have not yet 

 been identified, and a variety of good but not uncommon moths besides ; 

 also two males and six females of that delicate long-sting Hymenopter 

 Arotes amoefius, Cress., making altogether a very satisfactory two weeks' 

 collecting. 



