66 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES. 



CANADIAN RHYNCOPHORA. 



In reference to Mr. Harrington's remarks on Rhyiichites bicolor, I 

 may say that it has been taken at Hamilton regularly for quite a number 

 of years, never very plentiful but not considered rare. I always obtained 

 my specimens when beating second growth oak and hickory. There are 

 wild rose bushes in that locality, but I do not remember ever beating a 

 rose bush ; if I had known enough I might have found it more abundantly. 

 Of Attelabus rhois I took two specimens once in the neighborhood of 

 Hamilton; but on a visit to Brant, between the 13th and 30th of July, 

 1883, I touk it in quantities. There was a neglected field of about five 

 acres, overgrown with hazel, alongside of a bit of woods, and there at 

 that time was to be seen in surprising profusion a great variety of choice 

 Chrysomelidae and weevils. I had got my previous specimens named by 

 Mr. Reineke, of Buffalo, who gave me the impression that it was rare and 

 valuable for exchange, so I took a lot with the result that even now there 

 are about three dozen of them yet in reserve. J. Alston Mokfat. 



APHIDIVOROUS habits OF FENISECA TARQUINIUS (FABR.) GROTE. 



The observation of Mr. Th. Pergande in the fall of 1885, as recorded 

 by Prof. C. V. Riley in Am. Nat., June, 1886, p. 557, is the earliest 

 published account of a carnivorous habit in a butterfly larva, that of 

 Feniseca Tarquinius (Fabr.) Grote. 



Some observations made by me a number of years earlier on this 

 insect may yet be of interest, as I distinctly saw these larvae eating the 

 plant lice upon alder in the autumn of 1869, and bred the butterfly the 

 succeeding May, and was thus the first to discover the apidivorous habit 

 in a butterfly caterpillar. A number of the larvse were concealed among 

 the woolly herds of plant lice on the stem of an alder near the ground, 

 being completely enveloped in the filaments of the waxy "wool" they 

 might easily have been mistaken for some large Coccinellid. Within a 

 few days they changed to chrysalids of a Lycaenid type, from which 

 emerged, on the 14th of May following, this rare butterfly. 



In this observation is found a probable explanation of Abbott's 

 description of the farva of this butterfly, as given by Mr. Scudder in the 

 Can. Ent., May, 1872, Vol. IV., p. 85 : "Feeds on Indian Arrow-wood 

 and alder ; it is partly covered with a white loose down." That the larva 



