THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 2G3 



of each segment. Tubercles inconspicuous, each .bearing a single short 

 black hair. Venter slightly pruinose; feet concolorous with body. 



On the 24th May two of the larvae pupated in among the leaves of 

 the food plant, the pupse being enclosed within a slender covering of silk. 



Pupa — 8 mm. long, pale brown, the abdomen pitted and darker than 

 the wing covers and thorax. Cremaster consisting of 10 or 12 slender, 

 hooked spines, upon a thickened plate which covers the greater part of the 

 last segment. 



The moths emerged on the 7th Sept., 1904. 



From the above description it will be seen that our larvje resembled, 

 rather closely, those found feeding on Juniper, at Salem, Mass., and referred 

 to under the name E. niisertilata, on page 910 of Packard's Insects In- 

 jurious to Forest and Shade Trees. On 21st May, 1905, 8 more larvjje were 

 found in the same place. Four of these differed from the above descrip- 

 tion in having no subdorsal stripe. 



NOTE ON COLLECTING HIBERNATING SPECIMENS. 



BY J. W. COCKLE, KASLO, B. C. 



Acting on the information given me by a woodchopper who had seen 

 hundreds of green flies under the bark of a tree he had felled a few days 

 previously, I made a further investigation, and upon reaching the local- 

 ity found several dead Lace- wing flies crashed under the bark of a Tama, 

 rack tree he had been sawing up. Furthur search under the bark of a 

 tall dead Tamarack {Larix occidejitalis) which had just been felled, 

 resulted in a rather unique catch on removing the bark, which peeled off" 

 easily from the butt end, hundreds of lively specimens of the minute 

 Tineid, Lyofietia speculella, Clem., were found. Proceeding with the 

 stripping towards the top, and at from 20 to 50 ft. from the butt, 

 numerous specimens of the Tortricids, Proteopteryx Columbia (Kearfott), 

 including both of the described varieties Albidorsana and Mediostrania, 

 were seen. About 50 ft. up were dozens of a whitte barred Elachistid 

 {Momp/ia, sp. ). Also one specimen of Orneodes hexadactyla, L. The 

 dates which I have previously recorded for this species were the first 

 week in May and the end of July. Dr. Dyar mentions a specimen 

 from me April 24th, and one he biedhere July 13th. There are, therefore, 

 apparently, two broods, the moths of the latter of which hibernate, and 

 appear again in the spring, and a single specimen of Depressaria Klam- 

 athiana (VValshingham). A few Gelechiida? were found in the next 

 30 feet, and at this point (corresponding in the case of both of the trees 



