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Sometimes I would get quite a number and variety from behind coats, 

 etc., hanging on my door; a shake would often disturb half a dozen 

 moths from the same garment. 



After the Bombycidse, my greatest success was with the Plusias. I 

 am not certain whether more tereoides came to light than striatella. I 

 did not bother much about the former ; but my records of the latter show 

 the taking of sixty specimens, of which nearly tifty were perfect. It was 

 on the wing for about a month. The next in abundance was Putnami, 

 and ampla was fairly common for about a week. Only one simplex came , 

 to light. 



A few more observations, and I have done. 



There is no doubt that, owing to the heavy rainfall during July, un- 

 usual for this climate, I had a much larger percentage of good or suitable 

 evenings than would be the case in average years. 



Another circumstance, perhaps accounting for the abundance of 

 moths about during July, may have been the unusually heavy snowfall of 

 the previous winter. The snow came at the end of October ; during 

 November it may be said to have snowed, more or less, every day, and 

 there were no thaws to speak of during the winter to expose or uncover 

 the earth. In the spring the snow disappeared very quickly, its departure 

 being hastened by some heavy rains. 



The weather during April and the early part of May was favourable 

 to the development of vegetation and insect life. The end of May and 

 the beginning of June, however, wefe on the cool side, and there were 

 frosts on several nights. I hope, for the sake of comparison, that I may 

 have the chance to collect here "at light" again next season* 



SOME INSECTS, RARE IN CANADA, TAKEN AT HAMILTON 



BY MR. JAMES JOHNSTON. 



Having some correspondence with Mr. Johnston, he, anticipating 

 the interest 1 naturally felt in the entomology of my former residence, 

 informed me of some things he had taken at Hamilton which were not to 

 be got when I was a collector there ; and they seemed to me to be of so 

 much general interest that I desired him to make a note of them for 

 publication. So, complying with my request, he has prepared the accom- 

 panying more extended statement on the subject. What a rapid change 

 is taking place in the condition of the country ! All my familiar and 

 delightful hunting-grounds in that locality have been "improved out of 

 existence." With cultivation comes a change in the flora, which produces 



