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finally dragged it fully thirty feet to a tree, to the top of which he 

 laboriously ascended, still clinging to his burden, and having attained 

 this elevated position he flew off in a horizontal direction with the 

 locust." 



Commenting upon this, Mr. C. G. Rockwood, jr., in Science for 

 August 19th, 1887, gives an account of " a large insect evidently of the 

 wasp family," that carried a Cicada for a distance of twenty feet up a 

 maple tree and then flew away with it as described above. 



Wishing to ascertain the relative weights of these insects, I had dried 

 specimens, including pins, weighed in a druggist's scales. Cicada tibicen 

 weighed thirteen grains and Stizus speciosus seven and one-half. 



LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA TAKEN AT LITTLE METIS 

 (RIMOUSKI CO.), P. QUE. 



BY ALBERT F. WINN, MONTREAL. 



My collecting at Little Metis having been confined to July and 

 August, my knowledge of the forms occurring there is necessarily very 

 incomplete ; but as the insect fauna of the Lower St. Lawrence seems to 

 differ considerably from that of Ontario and the western part of Quebec, 

 I venture to give a list of the species I know to occur there, and hope 

 that in the event of my not going there again, some other entomologist 

 will give us a list of additions. 



1. Fapilo iurnus Linn. Common inland; rarer on the shore; July. 



2. 11 asterias Fabr. Rare ; July ; larva in August. 



3. Pieris oleracea Bd. Very common ; July and August. 



4. II rapcK Linn. Very common ; July and August. 



5. Colias philodice Godt. Very common; July and August; Albino 



females sometimes as common as yellow ones, though not 

 usually. 



6. Danais archippus Fabr, Very rare ; i specimen, August. 



7. Argy finis cybeleYdihx. Females common ; July; no ,^'8 seen. 



8. M atlantis Edw. Very common ; July and August. 



9. II myri?ia Cram. Rare ; July (commoner, no doubt, in June.) 

 JO, II beilona Fabr. Very rare ; July, in a swampy field. 



