THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 99 



spots, or in certain localities, if it could be avoided, by reason of the 

 swarms of fleas that had taken up their habitation there. These places- 

 were invariably those that would be selected as resting places, being dry, 

 sandy or gravelly spots. Still, Manitoba cannot by a long way equal 

 Southern Europe for fleas. 



To my surprise, I did not take last spring ( 1 900) a single Tamiocampa, 

 or any of the other early species which are usually to be seen about the 

 catkins of the white poplar (Aspen tremuloides), in some numbers, in the 

 evening ; but the bloom of the wild plum was visited during the daytime 

 by Hemaris thysbe and tenuis in more than average numbers, and at 

 night, Deilephila gallii, Mamestra Farnhami, Cucullia intermedia, 

 Plusia simplex were in quantity about the wild currant bloom; but hardly 

 anything came to sugar on the trees, the evenings shortly after sunset 

 becoming very chilly. 



In 1899 the genus Acronycta came out in great force, and I secured 

 at sugar several species new to my collection. This last season hardly 

 an Acronycta was to be seen, its place being taken by the genus Agrotis 

 (with the many sub genera into which that old genus has been subdivided). 

 Few as the Acronycta were, I secured a specimen of one new to me, A. 

 morula, G. & R. Most of the most dangerous species, from an economic 

 point of view, were strongly represented, and if a tithe of the produce 

 survives the winter, cutworms of all descriptions will be rampant this 

 spring. 



Car/wades tessellata, Harris, and pleuritica, Grt., which for a long 

 time were only represented by one or two examples in my collection, were 

 fairly numerous, and I secured a nice series of each. From among them 

 I picked out one or two that looked decidedly different, and submitting 

 one to Dr. J. B. Smith, he pronounced it to be his new species, nordica. 

 Leucania unipuncta, Harv., has generally put in an appearance in small 

 numbers about August, but this last season it appeared in June on my 

 sugared trees, and continued in numbers until the autumn frosts set in. 

 Peridroma saucia, Hbn., and ypsilon, Rott, and Carueades messoria, 

 Harr., the larvae of which are so destructive, were all more abundant than 

 usual. 



The Sphingidas, on the whole, were sparingly represented, but 

 Cressonia j'uglandis, of which I did not take in 1899 a single specimen, 

 appeared again at light. Very few Hydroecia were taken, but among the 

 few were two or three nelita, Strecker. Owing to the dry weather in the 



