60 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



With these exceptions, the season of 1880 has proved the least favor- 

 able to the Entomological collector, in this quarter at least, of any I have 

 experienced in my 2 1 years' residence in Canada. Very few Lepidoptera 

 were seen, either on the wing or at sugar ; beating the bushes was singu- 

 larly unproductive, and I have more than once picked stumps and turned 

 over stones for a full hour without getting 20 specimens of all sorts. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



CORRECTIONS. 



In the paper on the early stages of Gracilciria s(igiiiaiena,3.x\\.e pp. 25- 

 26, occur the following errors, no doubt overlooked by me in the proof: 

 On p. 26, "85 mm." and on p. 27, "8 mm." and " 6 mnj.," for which 

 respectively read .85 mm., .8 mm. and .6 mm. (fractions instead of 

 integers). And on p. 28, line 13, for "mine" read cocoon, 



V, T. Chambers, Covington, Kentucky. 



FOOD HABITS OF THE LONGICORNS. 



In June, 1873, while collecting in a small swamp on Montreal Moun- 

 tain, I caught a specimen of Pogonocherus inixhis Hald. on my coat-sleeve, 

 and as the insect was new to me, I commenced a search for others. Upon 

 examining a dead branch of a small willow growing close by, I found that 

 it had been extensively bored by some small insect. The part attacked 

 was about three feet from the trunk, and at this place the branch, for 

 about twelve inches, was full of holes from which the insects had escaped. 

 Not finding them, I searched further along the branch, and near its ex- 

 tremity, Av.here it was reduced to the thickness of a twig. I found a number 

 of the above-named species. They were lying on the branch with their 

 bodies pressed closely against it, and in this position could wath difficulty 

 be distinguished from the withered buds. I observed several pairs in 

 coitu, but none of the females were ovipositing. They appeared to be 

 very sluggish, lying almost motionless, although the sun was shining 

 brightly at the time. Having bottled all that were to be seen, I cut off 

 the branch where it had been perforated and found a number of the 

 beetles in it, but neither larva nor pupa. 



Gaiirotes cyanipeiinis Say. — I find this insect in spring on thorn blos- 

 .soms, and later in the season pairing and ovipositing on butternut. 



F. B. Caulfield, Montreal, P. Q. 



