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find the pencil of hairs present on hind tibias in all. Dr. Skinner's 

 report on specimens that I have sent him convinces me that I do 

 not take brizo. 



93. N. persius, Scud. Common everywhere around Calgary. Also occurs 



at Banff (Sanson), middle of May and June. Dr. Fletcher labeled 

 a specimen I sent him " lucilius, I believe," but Dr. Skinner, 

 who has both species named by Dr. Lintner, considers my form 

 persius. Mr. Gregson records lucilius from Lacombe. As Dr. 

 Fletcher probably gave him the name, I suspect that the species 

 he takes there is persius. 



94. Eudamus py lades, Scud. Local and not common. Has been taken 



at head of Pine Creek and near Billings's lumber mill. June. 



(To be continued.) 



HOW TO GET RID OF FLEAS. 



Reading in the April number of the Canadian Entomologist, Mr. 

 Heath's account of the plague of fleas in Manitoba, recalled what I had 

 read in the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales. It appears 

 that in the Australian bush fleas are as great a nuisance as they are 

 in some parts of Manitoba. A settler, who had suffered greatly from their 

 presence, wrote to the Gazette that he had occasion to use tar paper in his 

 dwelling, when he discovered that fleas would not stay in the house with 

 it, and from that time he had no more trouble with fleas in his house, 

 although they were as plentiful out of doors as ever. Last autumn, or 

 early winter, one of our local members, on his regular visit to the Society's 

 room, started the enquiry as to what was the best way to get rid of fleas, 

 as his house had got overrun with them from having allowed their dog to 

 sleep in the cellar. I thought of what I had then recently read, hunted up 

 the number of the Gazette, found the reference, and showed it to him, when 

 he said he would try it. The next time he called he reported that it had 

 "worked like a charm," and he at once got rid of the fleas. So here seems 

 to be a clean, cheap, and, so far as tested, an effectual means for those 

 afflicted of getting rid of the cause of great discomfort. 



J. Alston Moffat. 



