40 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" I saw Callidryas Enbule passing here in great numbers during Sept., 

 Oct. and Nov., 1878, from N. W. to S. E. About noon, when they were 

 most abundant, there would be half a dozen visible all the time, crossing 

 a 15-acre square of the city. They pursued an undeviating course, flying 

 over and not around houses and other obstructions. They flew near the 

 ground, and stopped occasionally to sip at conspicuous flowers. A ger- 

 anium with scarlet flowers, and set in the open yard, attracted most that 

 flew near it. Papers in Southern Georgia noticed the great numbers 

 passing at different points ; and a friend in Southern Alabama sent me 

 specimens of the same, saying that they were subjects of speculation 

 there. About March, 1879, there was a similar migration from S. E. to 

 .N. W., but in diminished numbers. I saw the fall migrations again Oct. 

 and Nov., 1879, but in smaller numbers than in 1878. A lady of So. 

 Georgia told me that her husband called her attention to the fall migration 

 26 years ago, and that she had observed it every year since. C. Eubule 

 is found here in small numbers at other seasons of the year." 



EARLY STAGES OF EPHEMERID.E. 



The Rev. A. E. Eaton would like to communicate with anybody who 

 would supply him with examples in fluid of nymphs of some of the 

 American genera of Ephemeridae. He would readily offer to pay a fair 

 price for them and would defray their carriage to England. All that would 

 be required would be five or six nearly full grown examples of one species 

 per genus, put up in narrow tubes or narrow cylindrical bottles (one tube 

 for each set), containing a solution of two parts of water to three of 

 spirits about 60 over proof, well corked and with the cork tied down. 

 Some tissue paper should be put into each tube with the specimens, to 

 prevent the solid contents moving about within the tube when its position 

 is shifted, care being taken not to compress the insects ; and the tube 

 should be filled up as nearly as possible with the fluid, to the exclusion of 

 air bubbles. The tubes should be packed up with cotton, wool or tow, in 

 a box, so that they shall be kept upright during the voyage ; and this box 

 should be packed into a stronger case with tow or hay or straw, and for- 

 warded to Mr. Eaton by .express, or through the agency of some book- 

 seller, not through the Post Office. Address Rev. A. E. Eaton, 5 1 Park 

 Road, Bromley, Kent, England. 



