180 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the announcement of its having been found in Canada. I had the pleas- 

 ure of several calls from Mr. Angus whilst he was on a visit to relatives 

 in this neighborhood the latter part of the summer. The June No. of the 

 Entomologist having just appeared, I gave it him to read. He said he 

 had noticed in looking over my collection that the specimens of angulifera 

 he had sent me were small in size and light in color ; that they were bred 

 specimens, which would account for that fact, and that he had full-sized 

 insects in his collection. So that I presume that in nature aJigulifera will 

 correspond in size with promethea, which is itself a rather variable insect, I 

 having specimens ranging from 2^ inches to 414 in expanse; the Ridge- 

 way specimen of angulifera being 41^, whilst one of the N. Y. specimens 

 is only 3)^. I may mention that Mr. Angus said the caterpillar fed on 

 the White-wood. J. Alston Moffat. 



Deal- Sir : I enclose a few lines from a letter received from Miss 

 Annie M. Wittfeld, of Indian River, Fla., written 23rd Sept. last, showing 

 one of the trials a lepidopterist is sometimes subject to. 



Coalburgh, W. Va., Oct. i, 1884. W. H. Edwirds. 



" Yesterday about day-break the weather was clear ; about twenty 

 minutes later a small black cloud arose in the south-east, and came along 

 very fast, although with us there was a dead calm. We took little notice 

 of it, till all of a sudden a terrible flash of lightning came down, followed 

 instantly by a fearful clap of thunder and a puff of wind that took every- 

 thing with it. It all lasted but a second, and then the sky was clear and 

 calm again. Shortly after I went to the glass where I had had six full 

 grown caterpillars of Limenitis Eros feeding, and I found them all dead 

 and stiff At the same time all my other larvae, which were in wooden 

 boxes, were unhurt." 



occurrence of the basket-worm in ONTARIO. 



Dear Sir : Some time ago Mr. A. H. Kilman, of Ridgeway, Ontario, 

 paid me a visit, and brought some of his moths with him which he had 

 collected at R.idgeway. Among them was one which I have no doubt 

 was the imago of the basket-worm, Thyridopteryx ephemerceformis Haw* 

 It was injured, and I had no example at hand for comparison. Has any 

 one reported it from Canada, or from any place in New York north of 

 Staten Island ? D. S. Kellicott, Buffalo, N. Y. 



