20 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Dear Sir : In my collecting notes for 1883 I find the following items : 



" June 24. Took upon the ground under a white-wood tree, a male 

 Callosamia promethea, with peculiar marks upon front wings." 



"June 27. Two specimens oi promethea, male and female, both 

 showing the peculiarity of markings noticed in the one captured on 24th 

 inst." 



These were fresh specimens, evidently just hatched, and were found 

 under the same white-wood tree. Examining the bushes and under-brush, 

 I found an empty cocoon, apparently that oi promethea, hanging to a beech 

 shrub. Never having seen angulifera, and knowing there was no name 

 in the Canadian list except promethea for such an insect to come under, I 

 placed it in my collection as a variety of that species. Mr. Moffat pro- 

 nounced it angulifera the moment he saw the specimens, and took home 

 with him a male, sending me a male from Mr. James Angus in return. 

 The latter specimen measures 4 inches, while the male of my own capture 

 expands only 3^, and the female a little over 4^^ inches. As Mr. Moffat 

 announced in the June number, these moths were taken near this village. 

 A friend of mine, Mr. Avery, got one in the same woods this summer. 



A. H. KiLMAN, Ridgeway, Ont. 



Dear Sir : In some collecting done the past season near McLean 

 P. O., in the Northwest Territory, I found Vanessa car did common, and 

 during latter half of June saw a good many individuals of Euptoieta 

 Claudia Cramer. Neither of these butterflies appear in the lists of Capt. 

 Geddes in Can. Ent., Dec, 1883, and March, 1884. This occurrence of 

 claudia is interesting, and to me rather a surprise. The locality men- 

 tioned is on the Can. Pac. Ry., 332 miles west of Winnipeg, and about 

 25 miles south-west of Fort Qu'Appelle. 



Thos. E. Bean. 



Dear Sir : Dr. J. G. Morris writes me that he will have later, a letter 

 from the son of the Rev. J. F. Melsheimer, the oldest son of F. V. Mel- 

 Melsheimer. Rev. J. F. Melsheimer was a minister in Hanover from 

 1814 to 1826. He died in 1829, in Adams Co., Pa., and left three 

 children, all of whom are living. 



H. A. Hagen, Cambridge, Mass. 



