100 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



early summer, weeds were only an inch or two high, when in other years 

 they would be as many feet, and I am afraid that the larvae of some of the 

 species of this genus must have been put to some inconvenience by lack 

 of food. I have never seen so few Catocala come to sugar as last 

 season, and of gryticea, of which, in 1899, I might have taken dozens of 

 specimens, I did not see one. Plusias made a very poor show, and the 

 autumn species, Xylina and Calocampa, were hardly represented. 



Although, in pbint of numbers, both of species and genera, last year 

 is not to be compared with the previous one, still I was so fortunate as to 

 add a few new things to my collection, including a specimen of Enthyatira 

 pudens, Grt. ; Platysenta atriciliata, Grt.; Cleoceris curvifascia, Smith; 

 Tceniocampa peredia, Grt., etc., and several Geometers which await identi- 

 fication. 



The dry weather quickly began to tell upon the butterflies, though 

 the earlier ones appeared in their usual numbers. I certainly noticed a 

 good many whites, but thinking they were all rupee, I did not net any, 

 and I have no small-boy's catch to fall back upon like my friend, Mr. 

 Hanham, so I cannot say whether or not napi was among them. The 

 blues were not in anything like their usual numbers. I did not see a single 

 Thecia titus, generally plentiful ; only one Thecla strigosa, and one T. 

 calanus. Chionobas varuna, on the other hand, was more plentiful than 

 usual. I took three, and saw several more, one being usually the extent 

 of my catch annually. Pyrgus tessellata was not seen, and the late-flying 

 Pamphilas were hardly noticed. 



Cutworms did great damage to garden stuff generally, but the 

 Colorado beetle, which did a good deal of damage in 1899, was not to be 

 seen ; the potatoes not being up before July, owing to the drought, 

 escaped its attacks. No injury to grain from Hessian fly, or wheat midge, 

 came under my notice. In the damp spring and summer of 1899 I na d 

 a good deal of damage done by the larva of Dermestes ta/piuus,Ma.nn.(?). 

 attacking moths while on the setting-boards. 1 need not say that 

 if there happened to be on a board a moth much rarer than the others, 

 that was the one selected for its attacks. Last year 1 only caught one, 

 though they had, if in existence, the same chance of being troublesome, 

 and that fellow was feeding on the body of a moth that was new to me, 

 although there were others quite as toothsome-looking specimens on the 

 boards. 



