15G TIIE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



2. That copies of the above resolution be forwarded to Mrs. A. S. Ritchie, 

 the Secretary of the Natural History Society of Montreal, and the Editor of 

 the Canadian Entomologist. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Collecting Beetles in Autumn and Winter. — I send you a few 

 specimens of Coleoptera, some of which I think will prove acceptable. In 

 the bottom of the quill you will find Olisthojius micans, Lee, and Bembidium 

 frontale. In the middle Sylvanus advena, S. Surinamensis, and Lathridius 

 publicarius. In the outer part Loricera Neoscotica, Platynus Rvficollis y P. 

 fuscescens, Chaud. — the latter is not in Leconte's list. Except Sylvanus and 

 Lathridius, these were taken late in November in a swamp by sifting the 

 leaves from the dry spots (usually taken from the sunny side of an old log) 

 over a cloth. I mention the mode of capture as it may be useful to you, and 

 late in the season will be found the most successful. For a sieve I used a 

 piece of net, such as is put over horses in fly-time, stretched over a hoop. 

 Many common species were also taken. By the same process — using a fine 

 sieve from a fanning mill- — I obtained from a little hay, leaves, &c, that had 

 accumulated about the sills of a barn, between 30 and 40 species of beetles, 

 several new to my collection and two or three (Trichopterygidoe) that Dr. 

 Horn supposes to be new to science. I think that early in spring the sifting 

 process would be found useful about out-buildings, especially a barn or stable, 

 as many insects are brought from the field in the hay, grain, &c. — Johnson 

 Pettit, Grimsby, Out, Dec. 29th, 1870. [We are much obliged to our 

 friend Mr. Pettit, for the interesting specimens that he has sent us, and shall 

 be glad to receive further particulars from him respecting his captures and 

 modes of collection. — Ed. C. E.] 



Hearing Butterflies from the Egg — I see by the July number of 

 the Entomologist — you may not know that it has penetrated to this corner of 

 the world — that Mr. Edwards has published an account of his method of 

 obtaining: butterflies ecr^s. Last June he wrote me of his success, and a day 

 or two before I left America I put the experiment to proof on a small scale, 

 using the cans used for preserved vegetables in lieu of a better substitute for 

 Mr. Edwards « powder keg." In this way I obtained quantities of eggs of 

 Eud. Pylades on clover and of Neon. Eurytris and Hesp, Mystic on grass. 

 I had previously found eggs of Pylades in abundance in the fields, and had 

 obtained some of those of Mystic from confined specimens, but in the latter 

 case they were always laid loosely in the box, never attached, as those of 

 other confined Hesperians. So far as I know, the eggs of Eurytris had never 



