264 THE CANADIAN e;nTOMOI,OGIST. 



"The Stream", "Careen Lanes and Byways", and "Mountains and Hills". In 

 these papers are depicted not only varied forms of insect life, but also observa- 

 tions of other living creatures in air and water and on earth. All living things 

 among animals and plants were of engrossing interest to this keen-eyed lover of 

 nature in all its aspects. 



A few other remarkable papers may be mentioned as examples of his 

 literary tastes and skill : " Visit to the Canadian Haunts of Philip Henry Gosse" 

 (author of the "Canadian Naturalist") ; "How the Forest of Bedford was 

 Swept Away" ; "The Entomology of Shakespeare" ; and "Entomological Mis- 

 takes of Authors". ' 



Dr. Fyles was no mean artist, as the original illustrations in many of his 

 papers plainly show. He was also in the habit of presenting large colored dia- 

 grams of the insects that he referred to in his lectures and addresses. He pre- 

 sented a large, handsomely bound folio volume of these diagrams to the Society's 

 library as an expression of his gratitude for all the Society had been to him 

 during a long series of years. 



He was a notable example of an old-time naturalist, a class of nature- 

 lovers now almost extinct in these days of specialization and devotion on some 

 single family or group of insects. His innate interest found scope in his boyish 

 days when, after his father's early death, he spent many summer holidays at the 

 country home of his grandmother, and together with his uncle, Edwin Tearle, 

 at that time a boy of about the same age, roamed the woods and hills in search 

 of birds and butterflies. To this friend and companion he was nmch devoted and 

 after coming to Canada kept up a long correspondence with the exchange of 

 verses. In the two volumes of poems that he published are references to this 

 friend of earlier days. 



The writer may conclude this sketch of a beloved and revered friend 

 with a quotation from a letter received from him a few years ago : — 



"I look back and I thank God for the brightening of my life that my 

 connection with the Entomological Society of Ontario has been to me. and yet 

 a feeling of sadness comes over me when I think of the good old friends who 

 have passed "the Great Divide", and every change seems to say — the days dark- 

 en round us and the years, among new men. strange faces, other minds — and 

 the remembrance of our departed friends calls for thankfullness, for it is a 

 pleasant remembrance, yes, and I am thankful". Charles J. S. Bethune. 



CORRECTIONS AND EMENDATIONS 



P. 184. Transpose line 5 to follow line 2. 



Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell has called my attention to the fact that the 

 genus Vitrinella, proposed by me for a Geometrid genus (1920, Studies in N. 

 Am. Cleorini, 27) is preoccupied by Vitrinella Adams (1850) in Mollusca. The 

 name Anavitrinella may be used to replace it 



I might also note that in the above mentioned paper the species agrestaria 

 Grossb. was omitted, by oversight, from the genus Pterotaea, although figured 

 under this generic name on Plate VI, fig. 11, J. McDunnough. 



