258 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



OCNERIA DISPAK. 



Sir, — I wish on behalf of the Entomological Society of Ontario to 

 acknowledge the receipt of a box from Prof. C. H. Fernald, Ph. D., con 

 taining a complete life series of the Gypsy moth, Ocneria dispar. Linn., 

 which the State of Massachusetts is making such a praiseworthy and 

 heroic effort to exterminate. The exhibit is gotten up under the direction 

 of Prof. Fernald, by order of the Gypsy Moth Committee, with a view 

 to extending a knowledge of this most destructive insect. It consists of 

 an egg mass as deposited by the female moth on the twig of a tree ; two 

 eggs exposed to view ; six caterpillars, ranging from one that had just 

 escaped from the egg to the full-grown larva, beautifully mounted ; a 

 male and a female papa ; a male moth with the wings spread, also one 

 with the wings unspread ; a female moth with the wings spread, and one 

 unspread. A most instructive and important contribution to the Society's 

 collection. J. Alston Moffat, Curator. 



NEW LOCALITIES FOR PAPILIO HOMERUS. 



Sir, — It will doubtless interest your readers to know that, notwith- 

 standing the fact that Papilio homerus has thus far only been accredited 

 to a very limited habitat in the island of Jamaica, mainly along the 

 valleys of the Sulphur and Devil's rivers, I have recently seen it in several 

 localities in the terra incognita in the highland regions of the republics of 

 Haiti and Santo Domingo. The mountain regions of the island known to 

 Columbus as Espanola, or Hispanola as we have it, and which is now with- 

 out a name as a whole — Haiti being the name of the French-negro 

 republic to the west and Santo Domingo of the Spanish-negro republic to 

 the east — are practically unknown to whites, many considerable areas 

 never having been trodden by white men since the sanguinary expulsion 

 of the French a century ago. 



On a recent trip through this interior, in the interests of a newspaper 

 syndicate, I visited a number of localities where there was growing the 

 large creeper, apparently belonging or allied to the genus Ipomcea, which 

 I had previously discovered was the food-plant of Homerus, and I was 

 not, therefore, at all surprised to occasionally see examples of this most 

 magnificent member of its genus sailing grandly overhead. I have no 

 doubt that the patient collector who will go up into the Cibas range and care- 

 fully explore the deep ravines of the western slopes will be rewarded with 

 a goodly number of this valuable species. Homerus is most difficult of 



