8 TIIE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Butterflies in July. — The present season, though cool and wet, I have 

 found very much better for collecting Lepidoptera than the two previous hot 

 and dry summers. During the month of July, I have captured, or seen, 

 specimens of the following butterflies, although I have had but few opportu- 

 nities for making anything like an Entomological excursion. Papilio turnus, 

 troilus, asterias ; Colias philodice ; Danais archippus ; Argynni$ cybele, 

 aphrodite, bellona, my rina ; Melitfea tharos ; Grapti interrogationis ; Van- 

 essa J-album, milberti, progne, antiopa; Pyrameis atalanta, cardui, hun- 

 ter a ; Limenitis arthemis, dissipus ; Neonympha eurythris ; Erebia nephele ; 

 Thecla inorata ; Polyommatus americana ; Eudamus tityrus ; Hesperia 

 hobomok, Leonardus, Pechii, ahaton. Twenty nine species in all, I have 

 no doubt that many of our Canadian collectors have done much better than 

 this, and I trust they will let our readers know it, though I think the above 

 list is not bad for a single month, characterized as it was by so many cold 

 and rainy days. Some species have been excessively abundant ; e. g. 

 C. philodice. D. archippus, V. antiopa, P. cardui ; others unusually numer- 

 ous; e. g. Y. milberti, P. huntera and atalanta, L. arthemis which is usually 

 very rare, N. eurythris, E. nephele, and Thecla inorata. 



On the 3rd of August, a lovely bright warm morning, after an excessively 

 wet night, I drove about ten miles along country roads. Every few yards 

 there was a patch of mud, the effects of the heavy rain, and at every patch of 

 mud there were from half a dozen to twenty specimens of Colias Philodice, 

 — at least one, I should think, for every yard of distance that I travelled. I 

 must, then, have seen at a very moderate computation, about 10,000 speci- 

 mens of this butterfly ! There were also, I should judge, about one-fifth as 

 many specimens of Vanessa antiopa flying about, besides numbers of other 

 common butterflies. — C. J. S. B. 



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