THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 67 



CAPTURES OF NOCTUID/E NEAR ORILLIA, IN THE 

 PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, CANADA. 



BY GEO. NORMAN, CHERRY HILL, FORRES, SCOTLAND. 



During the season of 1875 I collected Noctuae near Orillia, in the 

 Province of Ontario. The locality where I resided was the Couchiching 

 Hotel, a place of great beauty, situated on a wooded isthmus dividing 

 Lake Couchiching from Lake Simcoe. 



From the varied nature of the ground, enormous forest tracts, 

 swamps, etc., I fully expected the locality would have been more pro- 

 ductive in insects than my last years place of sojourn, St. Catharines, 

 which was, comparatively speaking, very poor and with very little timber. 

 In this I was much disappointed, possibly owing more to the bad season 

 than to the locality. The season was an unusually cold one. This, 

 combined with the high and cold winds which prevailed at nights during 

 the whole summer, was very much against sugaring, and certainly rendered 

 it one of the very worst collecting seasons I ever experienced. 



I may here mention that Mr. F. Grant, who has resided at Orillia 

 some years, has found Agrotis fennica not unfrequent on a species of 

 Spiraea, visiting the flowers. He has also taken Plusia striatel/a, M. 

 Comstockii, Agrotis gilvipennis. Adita chionanthi and other rare Noctuae. 



In sending a list of my captures to the Canadian Entomologist, I 

 have deemed it advisable, in order to prevent confusion, to adopt the 

 arrangement and nomenclature of Mr. Grote's lately published " Check 

 List." In spite of the above mentioned drawbacks, it will be seen that 

 the locality has not failed to yield a few species new to science. These 

 have been kindly determined and described by Mr. Grote, of Buffalo, to 

 whom my best thanks are due. The following species may be added to 

 my list of St. Catharines captures : Agrotis decolor, Acr. vinnula, H. 

 badistriga, P. angu/ata, A. plecta, T. v-bruiuieuni, A. gladiaria. 



Raphia f rater. July 4th ; rare at light. 



Momophaiie (Dipktera) Comstockii. (Mr. Grant). 



Diphtera fallax. July 2nd ; at sugar : not uncommon. 



Apatela (Acronycia) occidentalis. June 7th ; common at rest and sugar. 



morula. July 7th ; not uncommon at sugar. 



