Clje dianabian ®ntomolo(iist. 



VOL. XVI. LONDON, ONT., JUNE, 1884. No. 6 



ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS. 



BY W. HAGUE HARRINGTON, OTTAWA. 



NOTES OF A JUNE RAMBLE. 



My office duties prevent me, unfortunately, from going afield during 

 almost the entire month of July in each year, and perhaps a few notes on 

 my last ramble, 29th June, may interest the inexperienced, and indicate 

 some of the insects to be found at this time. The special aim of this ram- 

 ble was to visit a grove of hickories, Carya ainara, and investigate the 

 insects occurring in these trees, but I desired also to obtain Coleoptera 

 and Hymenoptera, especially sawflies. 



My outfit consisted of a flat beating-net constructed so as to be folded 

 up snugly when not in use ; a sweeping-net on a folding pocket-ring ; a 

 bottle containing coarse sawdust, with a morsel of cyanide for beetles ; 

 a wide-mouthed bottle lined with blotting paper, and having some cyanide 

 in a cavity in the cork, for Hymenoptera, Diptera ; a couple of boxes for 

 larvae, and last, but not least, a note-book and pencil. The day is 

 favorable, the sun shining hotly, yet tempered by a slight breeze. My 

 first capture is a half-grown Cimbex larva under an elm tree in the city, 

 and in passing through the lumber yards I obtain Buprestis cousularis and 

 Dicerca teiiebrosa. Along the river are seen many Neuroptera, including 

 some fine species of Phryganidre and Perlidse. On the sides of a railway 

 embankment (I am now in the Province of Quebec) grow a variety of 

 young trees and other plants. The willows are first tried and yield very 

 abundantly, Diachus catarius and aiiratus. Less numerous are 

 Monaclms soponatiis, Aiionuva laticlavia, Agri/us torpidus ? and A. 

 fulgens. I am pleased to capture a fine pair of Sapcrda nnitica, as I 

 have only hitherto taken them once. Among other beetles are Trichalo- 

 p/ius alternatus, Rhynchites cyanellus and Chrysomcla imiltipunctata, with 

 larvae of the same. On some trees a sawfly larva, yellow, hairy, with 



