252 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



On the 20th I left for a short holiday at Murray Bay, carrying my 

 menagerie with me, and my arrival with it caused a certain amount of 

 curious interest among the guests at the hotel. The larva eats the paren- 

 chyma of the leaf in small round patches ; mine fed on the upper side, 

 and when resting, they rested along the midrib, head sometimes up and 

 sometimes down. Mr. Scudder tried his larvae with Vaccinium Corym- 

 bosum and V. Vacillans, and found that the one on the latter ate with 

 twice the zest of that on the Corymbosum, and further, that the one on 

 the latter fed on the upper surface of the leaf, while that on Vacillans fed 

 on the lower surface. 



About the end of August or first of September they ceased feeding 

 and became lethargic, lying along the midrib of the leaf, near the petiole, 

 upon a slight carpet of silk, and as they were plainly hibernating, 

 and I feared they might dry up, I removed the leaves from the sprig, 

 cut away the surplus space of the leaves, and secured them to the bottom 

 of a pill-box with a touch of glue. When the pieces of leaf seemed per- 

 fectly dry, I put the pill-box in a bottle, corked it and placed it in the 

 refrigerator. Some time afterwards I found that in some way water had 

 got into the bottle, and the card pill-box was wet and mouldy. I took it 

 out, removed the mould as well as possible with a camel's-hair pencil, 

 and allowed the box to dry. The larvae were apparently healthy, and I 

 then put the box out of doors on a gallery, where the occupants would be 

 as cool as possible and protected from sun and rain. 



As soon as the snow came I got a small wooden box, cut several 

 small pieces about an inch square out of the upper edge for ventilating 

 purposes, put it on the ground, with a brick on the botton inside, placed 

 my box with hibernating larvae on the brick, and covered the box with an 

 inverted tin tray that I had had made, the tray projecting about an inch 

 all around the box, and then covered it with snow. In the spring, as the 

 snow gradually melted, I had more brought from the shady parts of the 

 garden to pile over the box, and finally had the much-reduced heap 

 covered with ashes to protect what little snow remained from the genial 

 warmth of the end of April. I wrote to Mr. W. H. Edwards to try to 

 secure some Vaccinium from the South, offering to pay a boy to get it, but 

 Mr. Edwards wrote that he did not know where to get it, and advised me 

 to try willow. I then appealed to Mr. Jack, at Jamaica Plain, and a few 

 days later to Mr. Fletcher, at Ottawa. Both kindly responded promptly, 

 and as a result I received a plentiful supply of shoots with the first tiny 



