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as the leaves are consumed, and the larvge will go on to pupation. This 

 is when it is desired to get chrysalids by wholesale. So larvae may be left 

 during several stages in bags or branches in the open, care being taken to 

 protect them from the direct rays of the sun, or from the assaults of birds 

 or other insects. This last may be done by a second bag outside the first, 

 or by a screen of paper or cloth. But larvae so treated must be brought 

 in before they prepare for pupation, else many will eat their way out and 

 escape. 



But where observation of the larvge is necessary, glass tubes and tum- 

 blers, and guaze-covered flower pots, and tin pails and nail kegs, will an- 

 swer all the purposes of elaborate and expensive cages, and be more 

 satisfactory, I apprehend. At any rate all my work is done in this way. 



There are many northern species of butterflies, the history of which re- 

 mains to be learned. Several species of Colias, Interior, Occidentalism 

 Christina, Pelidne ; several Argynnids, all the boreal species, and most 

 from the Rocky Mountains, also Atlantis, Grapta Faunus; and little is 

 known of J. Album ; the species of Erebia, Chionobas, Coenonympha ; 

 nearly all the Lycaenidse and the Hesperidas. I should be greatly 

 pleased at receiving eggs or larvae of any of the species mentioned, and 

 would exchange larvae of eastern species, or butterflies from any quarter 

 for them. 



ADDITIONS TO CANADIAN LISTS OF COLEOPTERA. 



BY W. HAGUE HARRINGTON, OTTAWA. 



(Continued from page 98.) 



ANTHICIDiE. 



Corphyra ter7ninalis Say. This is a species with reddish thorax, which, 

 from its representation in my collection, appears to be one of the 

 commoner species of the genus. 



Anthicus fulvipes Laf. On plants in low wet localities. 



cinctus Say. Rare, under bark of old saw-logs, etc. 



MELOID^. 



Meloe n. sp. ? A very small ^ found in early spring under a stone. It 

 differed somewhat in sculpture and puncturing from angusticollis 

 and americana, and also apparently in the structure of the 

 antennae, so that Dr. LeConte thought it might perhaps be a new 

 species. 



