140 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A (qw years ago, on the night of February 2nd, Mr. Jaines Barclay, 

 of Levis, captured a fine specimen of Ufens satyriais, Grote, as it was 

 flying round the station buildings of the Intercolonial Railway at Chaudiere 

 Junction, P. Q. 



Lonely barns, deserted houses, overhanging cliffs, hollow trees, ever- 

 greens, etc., afford shelter to such hibernating insects; and that any of the 

 sleepers should be aroused and come forth, in an unusually mild time, is 

 not more wonderful than that a squirrel, under similar circumstances, 

 should show itself. According to the popular belief, the bear even comes 

 forth on Candlemas Day to study the weather. 



CORRESPONDENCE: A PROTEST. 



Sir, — After all that has been written of the evil of having descriptions 

 of new species scattered through journals of general natural history or 

 transactions of societies not exclusively devoted to one branch of science, 

 it is certainly disheartening to find in the March number of "The Ottawa 

 Naturalist," a paper by the Rev. Geo. W. Taylor, describing a new species 

 from Ottawa of the genus which for some ten years has been standing in our 

 lists as Tephroclystis, Hubner, under the name of Eupiihecia Youngaia. 



I can see very little difference between this and the description of 

 butterflies by Mr. \Vm. H. Edwards in "Field and Forest," which was so 

 generally condemned by entomologists. Had we no Canadian journal 

 devoted exclusively to entomology, it would, in my opinion, still be 

 deplorable, but when we have such a journal as " The Canadian 

 Entomologist," it seems inexcusable, and I trust that, for the benefit of 

 the science, you will republish the descriptive part of the paper in this 

 journal. Henry H. Lyman. 



Professor John B. Smith, of Rutgers College, Nev/ Brunswick, 

 New Jersey, is enjoying a three months' leave of absence in Europe. A 

 postal card depicting the Bridges over the Arno revealed the fact that he 

 was recenilv at I-lorence. 



Mailed April 2nd, 1906. 



