260 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



PAPILIO CRESPHONTES. 



I was much surprised at capturing a specimen of this Southern butter- 

 fly at Roach's Point, Lake Simcoe, on the 28th of August. The locality 

 is about fifty miles north of Toronto, and is probably the most northern 

 point that the butterfly has reached. The specimen was worn and some- 

 what damaged, but another nearly perfect one was seen and chased, but 

 escaped capture. C. J. S. Bethune. 



THE GOLDEN HEPIALUS. 



Sir, — I have made one very interesting capture this season — Hepialus 

 auratus, Grote. This rare moth was taken early in July, at Lonesome 

 Lake, in the Franconia Mountains, about 3000 feet above the sea. 



In this quiet, lonely spot Mr. William F. Bridge and Dr. W. C. Prime 

 have a log cabin on the bank of the lake. It was in the twilight, after 

 the sun had gone down, that my golden prize came fluttering by the open 

 window of the cabin, and was soon in the poison bottle. It is a fine 

 specimen, unbroken, but with some of the scales rubbed from its delicate 

 wings. Mr. Grote described this moth in Can. Ent., Vol. X., p. 18, 

 from a specimen taken in the Adirondacks by Mr.W.W. Hill, in July, 1877. 

 Ten years later Mr. E. T>. Vati Duzee, our well-known Hernipterist, took 

 a specimen at Lancaster, N. Y., not far from Buffalo, and recorded the 

 capture in Entomologist, Vol. XX., page 100. I have seen no record of 

 any other capture, though it is of course possible that the moth is included 

 in private collections of which I know nothing. At any rate it is among 

 our very rarest moths, and I am glad and proud to include it in our 

 Franconia list. Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



OMISSION. 

 On page 224 of our September issue, between the fourth and fifth 

 lines from the bottom of the page, the following lines were unintention- 

 ally omitted : 

 First and third antennal joints subequal in length, some 



of the veins coloured with brown levigata, Loew. 



The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario will be 

 held in the rooms, Victoria Hall, London, on Wednesday, October nth, 

 at 3 o'clock p.m., and also at 8 p.m. 



Mailed. October 5th. 



