200 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 



This is rather a remarkable point for entomological, as well as orni- 

 thological collecting. Many insects usually found much further south, east 

 of the great lakes, are met with here not unfrequently. A few such I here 

 indicate : — 



Nathalis iole Bd. Not abundant. 



Callidryas eubule L. Common. 

 M philea L. 1883. 



Terias nicippe Cram. Four specimens taken. 

 M mexicana Bd. One, 1883. 



Junonia lavinia Cram. Common. 



Argus labrusca Hub. Occasionally. 



Dilophonota ello Litm. Not common. 



Thysania zenobia Cram. Four specimens taken here. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Dear Sir : Prof Kellicott's inquiry in Sept. number of the Ento- 

 mologist as to whether T]iyridopteryx ephemerceformis Haw. has been 

 reported from Canada, leads me to make some explanations. Last Feb'y 

 I visited Mr. Kellicott, taking a box of moths for identification. Among 

 them was a pretty little moth with clear wings. The specimen was some- 

 what abraded. Mr. Kellicott pronounced it, provisionally, the male of the 

 basket worm above named. On June 28th I captured another male speci- 

 men, and the next day I found a pair of the same insect copulating on a 

 leaf of basswood. This last discovery precludes the idea of its being the 

 basket worm of Haworth, for in my specimens both sexes are winged ; 

 the female is thickly clothed and expands one inch ; the male has trans- 

 parent wings and expands 3^ inch ; whereas in the true basket worm the 

 female is wingless, cylindrical, and does not leave her case. 



Packard says (Guide to Study of Insects, p. 289) : 



" Phobetrum has narrow wings ; the male is very unlike the female, 

 which has been raised by Mr. Trouvelot, and was confounded by us with 

 Thyridopteryx ephemerceformis of Haworth. The wings of the male are 

 partly transparent." 



I have no doubt, therefore, that the insect in question is PJiobctrum 

 pithecitim A. & S. 



A. H. KiLMAN, Ridgeway, Ont. 



