THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 1^ 



that they are thus incongruously placed and associated. Both Cydosiir 

 and Gnophcela appear to me to be Zygcenidce with Bombycid analogies in 

 sensu Packard. I hope Dr. Packard may be induced to study these 

 forms. Neither do I believe our Texan species of Cydosia to be the 

 nobiiitella of Cramer. But all these questions, which ever way a full 

 knowledge of these moths my determine us, must be entered into without 

 temper and without unnecessary animadversions upon those whose 

 experience has led them to opposite conclusions from those reached by 

 the final verdict, a verdict which Mr. Smith's studies will, we may hope,. 

 be of a character to influence. 



NOTES. 



NOTES OF THE YEAR. 



Dear Sir: With few exceptions insects were unusually scarce last season, 

 probably on account of the continued cool weather and heavy rains. Colias 

 Fhilodice, generally so abundant, was almost entirely absent, a few ap- 

 peared in midsummer and the fall brood was more plentiful, but by no 

 means abundant, and the latter might be said of most of our diurnals. 

 The Noctuas were also conspicuous by their absence, at least at sugar, 

 the baits failing to attract even the commonest species. Eufitchia rib- 

 earea was observed in numbers in a plot of black currant bushes, in an 

 old orchard now included in Mount Royal Park, and Orgyia leiicostigma 

 was abundant on shade trees about the city. In the fall I found several 

 species of Eristalis common on solidago blossoms, E. Bastardi and E. 

 Brousi being especially abundant; while E. transversus, E. Tenax and 

 E. dimidiatus were less common. The other orders were poorly re- 

 presented, making it one of the worst collecting seasons in my experience. 



F. B. Caulfield, Montreal. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 



Dear Sir : The photograph from which the beautiful figure on p. 204,. 

 vol. xxi. of Papilio Turjtus (aberrant form) was taken by Mr. H. N. 

 Topley, of Ottawa, by the new Isochromatic process, and the engraving 

 was made direct from the photograph. This acknowledgment should 

 have appeared in the article, but was accidently omitted from the proof 



J. Fletcher. 



