248 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



4 — 656a. I took flying over some annuals in my garden a couple 

 of Hemaris tkysbe, var. riificaudis Kirby, for the 

 first time. In some years thysbe is numerous at 

 wild plum and Carayana bloom, etc. 

 2230. Agroperina helva, Grote. Not common; occurs at 

 intervals. 



5 — 2189. Papaipema circumlucens, Smith. At light; in trap ; one. 



7 — 1697. Euxoa dissona, Mosch. One, at sugar. I think this 

 makes the third I have taken during twenty-five 

 years' collecting. 



9 — 2568. Rivula propinqualis, Guen. The second I have taken. 

 II — 1823. Mamestra lilacina, Harv. One or two particularly 



brilliantly marked, so much so that at first I thought 

 it was another species. 

 18 — Euxoa indensa, Smith. This new species seems to be 



almost equally numerous with verticalis Grote 

 (2607a), a variety of which I have taken it to be. 

 31 — Nothing came to my trap since the beginning of the 



month until this night, when I found a fresh 

 Papaipe^na nitela Guen. (2179), and a few other 

 things not worth recording. 

 June, July and August were generally much hotter than 

 usual, and the rainfall was very much below the 

 average^ hardly amounting to one-third of the 

 normal. 

 The autumn genera came out in very small numbers 

 generally speaking. Perhaps Calocampa, Glaea and 

 Cosmia were in their usual strength. Of Peridroma^ 

 occulta Linn (1462) was more numerous than 

 usual, but astricta Morr. (1464) was absent. 

 Xylina was very sparsely represented, and Catocala 

 hardly at all. In some years I have counted 25 to 

 30 individuals of some half dozen species of the 

 latter upon a single sugared tree, and in a clump of 

 trees some fifty yards square I must have seen two 

 or three hundred of them on some dozen tree trunks. 

 Indeed they were rather a nuisance, driving away 

 other things more desirable. This year, I saw two 

 or three of the commoner species in an evening at 

 the most. 



