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beeu takeu iu all parts of the world, and of late years in the United States. 

 In Illinois and Kentucky the larva has been very destructive to Indian Corn, 

 and in the former State to the tomato as well (Amer. Eat., i. 212). Mr. 

 Glover has found it feeding in a young pumpkin ; but it is best known in 

 the United States as the Cotton Boll-worm, from the injury it inflicts upon 

 the cotton crop. It is probable also that it attacks Indian Corn in Canada, 

 ( Vide C. Farmer, 1869, p. 425). 



Captures at North Douro. — An attack of ague — for although that 

 depressing complaint is happily of infrequent occurrence in our village, ifc 

 was exceedingly prevalent last year — and a subsequent lengthened absence 

 from home for the recuperation of health, prevented me from devoting much 

 time, last summer, to the capture of entomological [specimens for my cabinet. 



Perhaps the most in f eresting addition I made to my collection was a very 

 good specimen of the Thyreus itessus. 



The Colias philodice appeared in great abundance, noticed chiefly around 

 the puddles on the roads. 



Among the Coleoptera captured was the " one-coloured Pr tonus" Pn'onus 

 wiicolor, called now, I believe, Orthosoma cylindricum. It is a good speci- 

 men, measuring 1J in., exceeding by J in. another specimen previously 

 included in my collection. 



Some of the " Buprestians," particularly the JBupreslis Virginica, we find 

 constantly in our neighbourhood. Last year I captured the Buprestis fulvo- 

 guttala, the " tawny-spotted Buprestis;" it measures a little over T 4 o in. 



The large " Capricorn beetles/' Monohammns titillator, were unusually 

 abundant last season. I captured numerous specimens for the purpose of 

 measuring their antennae., one pair of which had attained to the unusual — 

 as far as my experience extends — length of 3i in. 



I also added a " Tree-hopper," Cicada canicularis, to my collection. Both 

 my specimens are of the same length, a little over l T 6 ff in. to the end of the 

 wing covers. 



My Dahlias, last year, were infested with hemiptera. Indisposition at the 

 time of their appearance disinclined me from the trouble of endeavouring to 

 ascertain even the group to which they belonged. They were about j 3 s in. in 

 length, and prettily coloured. • 



Around my currant bushes were playing, during the summer months, 

 innurm rable M Ichneumon flies." I never saw so many congregated within 

 a similar space before. They were of different sizes and colours. I noticed 

 one of the larger ones, of a steel-blue colour, with a linear body, entangled 

 in a spider's web. Madame Arachne, however, soon discovered that she had 

 * caught a Tartar f for, after a few ineffectual struggles to escape, the 



