THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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results will be seen in future years. If the eggs were laid previously no 

 such result could be expected. But the frequent occurrence of eggs in 

 the collecting boxes shows that this is not the case. 



The Tiger Moths (Arct/a,etc.) have been equally abundant, especially 

 A. virgo. Were all that I have collected identified, as I hope they soon 

 will be, the list would be long. 



The white-lined Hawk Moth (D. lineata) with others of the same 

 family, is a frequent visitor. The Water Tiger. D. marginalis, with two or 

 three smaller Dytiscids, are often taken. These and most of the heavy 

 fliers strike the globe and fall stunned to the ground, but soon recover un- 

 less boxed at once. 



The Stag Beetle ( L. dama) and Fire fiy (P. pcnsylvanica) appeared 

 later and less frequently with the great Lebia ( L. grandis) and Dichelony- 

 cha e/ongatiiia, the latter for a few evenings in great abundance.  A 

 single specimen of the Codling Moth was captured. 



About the end of June a new fauna began to appear. The Cock- 

 chafers had nearly disappeared. But the great Ground Beetle (H. caligin- 

 osiis) supplied the place, and in so great numbers that one evening I filled 

 a four-once bottle in fifteen minutes. With it came two, to me, unexpected 

 visitants, the Blister Beetles ( L. vittata and atrata). 



This is but a partial list of the species already collected. Several of 

 the large and conspicuous moths have been met with, and I hope later to 

 send a longer catalogue. 



But we are not the only insect-hunters about the electric lamp. Every 

 evening the toads congregate until the ground is alive with them, and 

 food is so plentiful that they are sometimes almost unable to return to 

 their holes and often past hopping. Several times also I have suspected 

 the presence of skunks, but have never yet seen a frog. Small boys, too. 

 Hock to the lights for the sake of stamping on the cockchafers and other 

 insects that lie disabled on the ground. Between the toads, the skunks 

 and the small boys, the entomologist is sometimes hard put to it, and must 

 work late at nights or betimes in the morning, or both. Could he only in 

 addition to the real insects make a collection of the huge phantasmagoric 

 spectres that fly and creep about the roadway projected by the intense 

 light, he would have an array of " bugges " that might fairly be called 

 " terrors by night." 



