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some handbook might be drawn up for the assistance of teachers in rural 

 schools. The volume before us is the very book that is needed, if only it 

 dealt with Canadian instead of British insects. In England "Object 

 Lessons " are a compulsory part of the curriculum in elementary schools, 

 and the teachers are required to give their pupils a series of simple 

 lessons " adapted to cultivate habits of exact observation, statement, and 

 reasoning." These lessons are to be "on objects and on the phenomena 

 of nature and of common life," and a wide discretion is thus left in the 

 hands of the teacher. In the country schools of Ontario no subject could 

 be more useful than the study in this way of the commonest species of 

 injurious and beneficial insects, and no subject is likely to compare with 

 it in interesting the pupils. A further advantage is the ease with which 

 specimens can be obtained and their life histories traced. Mr. Tutt's 

 volume is admirably adapted for the use of teachers in providing lessons 

 of this kind. After giving a general account of the external structure 

 of insects, their internal organs and metamorphoses, he devotes the 

 '' Lessons" to typical common species of each order, giving similar parti- 

 culars regarding the individuals and any general facts of interest that 

 bear upon them. Each insect treated of is also illustrated with plates and 

 wood-cuts. It is not, however, a text-book for pupils, but is meant for the 

 instruction and equipment of the teachers, affording them an excellent 

 foundation upon which to frame the instructions they are to give to those 

 committed to their charge. 



VANESSA MILBERTI. 



In " The Butterflies of the Eastern Provinces of Canada," by Rev. C. 

 J. S. Bethune (Ent. Soc. of Ont. Report, 1894), it is stated that individuals 

 of this butterfly were seen as late as the 18th Oct. I saw two specimens 

 on the 25th Oct., flying actively across a street near the Hotel Dieu, 

 Montreal. This usually common butterfly is scarce within the range of 

 my entomological field work, which is principally confined to the north- 

 east slope of Mount Royal, and the streets of Montreal around that 

 neighbourhood. Only one other specimen was seen by me this season, 

 and that was also at a late date, the 19th Oct. My collection specimen 

 was caught in 1894, and since then, I have not seen another in the same 

 district until the above appeared. 



This butterfly was common around St. Andrews East, Que., from 

 the ist to the 4th Aug., 1896. Charles Stevenson, Montreal. 



[A specimen was seen on the wing at Port Hope on the 5th of 

 November last, — Ed. C. E.J 



Mailed December 6th, 1897. 



