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discal dots. The long testaceous antennae are bi-pectinate to the tips. The 

 body parts are paler than the wings. Expanse 26 m. m. 



The less olivaceous more purely fawn and paler colour of this species, 

 together with the deep and distinct lines above on the primaries, will distin- 

 guish it fron D. puber, which it resembles in the shape of the fore wings. 

 The squamation is close and a little lustrous. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Rearing Eggs or Butterflies. — I have been so successful this season 

 in persuading female butterflies to deposit their eggs in captivity, that I think 

 it well to mention the matter in the Entomologist, Last season I found it 

 impossible to induce P. Marcellus to lay upon leaves or stems of pawpaw 

 that had been cut. This spring I placed a nail-keg, from which the bottom 

 had been knocked out, the top being covered with cloth, over a low pawpaw 

 growing near my house ; and on confining a female Ajax therein, she at once 

 began to deposit her eggs, and continued till the number reached more than 

 twenty. In a few days the young larvae came out, and with very little trouble 

 I succeeded in raising several of them to the chrysalis state, in which they 

 now are. (I expect to prove by this brood that Marcellus and Ajax are but 

 different broods of the same insect; a fact I have felt confident of for some 

 years past, but which I could not absolutely establish for want of the link 

 which this experiment will supply). I afterwards treated other females of 

 Ajax in the same manner, and with the same results. 



h. C. Philodicc, confined in the same way with growing clover, at once 

 deposited a great number of eggs. So did Nisoniades Lycidas, and N. 

 Pylades, Scudder, upon Hedysarum. In fact in every instance so far 

 tried, the females have obliged me with as many eggs as I wanted; and I 

 incline to think this mode of taking eggs will always be successful. — W. H 

 Edwards. Coalburgh, West Va. 



Colorado Potato Beetle. — This most destructive insect (Boryphora 

 10-lineata, Say) has appeared in the western parts of this province, and is 

 already committing great ravages upon the potato plants. We have received 

 specimens both in the larval and imago states from ^Windsor, county of 

 Essex, and Colinville, county of Lambton, Ont. The most approved remedy 

 for it is to dust the affected plants with a mixture of one part of Paris green 

 and six parts of flour or ashes. Detailed illustrated descriptions of the insect 

 may be found in the American Entomologist for November 1868, and in the 

 forthcoming number of the Weekly Globe and Canada Farmer. 



The Currant-bush Saw-fly. — I have moved this year to a house where 

 there is a garden, in which I have made an unexpected discovery, namely, 



