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latter with even greater voracity than they do the former. My remedy, as 

 regards the egg-plants, is hand-picking two or three times a day, a remedy 

 where, from the size of the garden, it can be adopted, the most efficacious 

 that can be devised. 



June 5. The Nematus ventricosus appeared upon the currant bushes. 

 A watering with hellebore and water proved, as usual, an unfailing 

 specific. 



June 16. I captured an Elater occulatus. 

 June 19. Scsia diffinis. 



June 24. Saturnia to, Z ■> 2i A mcries m expanse. 

 July 4 The Fireflies, Lampyris cornsca, first appeared, enhancing, by 

 their glittering, glancing evolutions, the charms of the evening hours. 



July 10. I captured a Super da tridentata. 



August 17. Buprestis Virginica. 



August 19. Camping out with a party on one of the granitic islands 

 of our most beautiful and romantic Stony Lake. Saw a large num- 

 ber of those exquisite little beetles, the Chrysochus auratus. 



August 20. Red Admiral butterfly, Vanessa atalanta (Westwood). 



August 26. Arge tiger-moth. 



August 28. Silpha vespillo (Samouelle). 



August 30. Buprestis dentipes. 



September 5. I captured in my garden a good specimen of that very 

 lovely moth, Delopeia bella. 



September 20. Found a common cricket, Acheta abbreviata, with a 

 hair snake, Gordius, attached to it. Whenever the unhappy victim moved 

 the snake appeared to lash itself into a perfect fury, twisting itself around 

 the cricket in all directions. 



October 20. I found a chrysalis of the Five-spotted Sphinx, Sphinx 

 quinqucmacitlatas. which I now have by me still alive. 



On the same day, the thermometer on the preceding night having run 

 down to 32°, I captured a brilliant specimen of Vanessa progne. 



October 21. Dug up in my garden a quantity of grasshoppers' eggs 

 enclosed in a pellicle of dried varnish. 



Vincent Clementi, B. A. 



Peterboro, January 28th, 1876. 



