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under the glass is seen to be covered with a soft pubescence that makes it 

 more like a downy feather than a hair. Head jet black, base of clypeus 

 and antennae white ; tips of prolegs pale. 



On most of the specimens the lower spreading tufts of hairs on the 

 extremities of the body are white, the rest black ; but I find some with all 

 the lateral spreading hairs Avhite, and also the lateral pencils on joints 6 

 to II. In others the spreading hairs are gray and the lateral pencils 

 black ; but these variations are the exception. Each tubercle gives rise 

 to two sets of hairs, a short spreading bristle-like set, and in the centre a 

 pencil of the plumose sort. 



July II they began to spin, and by the i6th all had disappeared. 

 They produced the imagines from July^Sth to 31st, 54 coming out in all, 

 only 6 of which were ^ . Some of the females deposited eggs, which 

 were .025 of an inch in diameter, globular, white, smooth. These were 

 deposited in irregular clusters, some in the roof of the cage and some 

 partly around a twig, but all of them were covered more or less completely 

 by hairs from the last joint of the abdomen of the female. The tufts of 

 whitish hairs found on the tip of the abdomen of this species seems to be 

 for that purpose. After the cluster was completed the female would rub 

 the end of the abdomen all around it and over it, nearly denuding herself 

 of these hairs. 



These eggs were watched for a number of days, but as they did not 

 hatch they were not noticed further, it being supposed that they would 

 hibernate. Afterwards it was found they had hatched and the larvae died. 

 While in confinement the larvse were fed on Asdepias tuberosa, which they 

 ate readily, but they refused to eat A. purptirascens. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF ONTARIO. 



(Continued from page 220.) 

 PAPERS READ. 



The Rev. Mr. Fyles read a paper describing the habits of an insect 

 forming galls upon Vaccinium canadense, and exhibited specimens and 

 microscopic drawings of the insect. 



Mr. Harrington read an abstract of a paper on the Tenthredinidae, or 

 saw-flies. 



