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6 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



July 8th : The most noticeable things were Ceratomia undulosa and 

 several large species of Acronycta and Mamestra. 



July 9th : The first species of Ichthyura, namely, albosigma, was 

 captured on this evening. 



The next few evenings were too light outside and I got little, but I 

 mention the capture on the [oth of Crambidia pallida; this species be- 

 came fairly common later on in the month. 



July 15th: This evening I took four fresh Plusia bimaculata and 

 some striatella, several Mamestra assimilis and Hadena impulsa, a fine 

 Cerura occidentalis, Clisiocampa fragilis, more Uryopteris rosea, and an- 

 other pair of the tiny white Bombycid, Argryrophyes cilicoides, etc. 



July iSth: Another Cerura, Arctia Saundersii, Carneades flavicoUis 

 and silens, and Orthosia Conradi (?) were among my visitors this evening. 



July 19th: This was my record evening of the season, and one in 

 another way as well, it being 4 o'clock when I put out my light and re- 

 tired for the night (?). It was another wet night, and stormy at intervals. 

 I was first of all deluged with mosquitoes, and a small green tree-hopper ; 

 these were soon joined by swarms of Crambidse, among which Crambus 

 unistriatellus was the most conspicuous. The larger moths included a 

 dozen or more of the two species of Arctia already recorded, half a dozen 

 Parorgyia plagiata, three species of Ichthyura, Cerura cinerea (the only 

 example taken), more of the little white Bombycid, several species of 

 Schizura and lanassa lignicolor ; the three specimens of the moth last 

 named appeared on the scene almost at the same moment. Some of the 

 common Noctuids,such as Feltia jaculifera, Noctua fennica and haruspica, 

 Hadena lignicolor, Mamestra lilacina, Hydrsecia nictitans, and others, 

 were becoming troublesome. This was a great evening for Noctuids ; 

 some of the particularly showy species were Hadena adjuncta and misel- 

 oides, Trachea delicata, Mamestra lubens, Plusia striatella, bimaculata 

 and viridisignata (i), the last Plusia being an addition to my local list. I 

 also took one Acronycta hamamelis, and impressa was quite plentiful. 

 Senta defecta turned up for the first time, and in extraordinary abundance ; 

 I could easily have bottled 100 of them; a Tineiid, somewhat smaller, 

 but mimicking this species in colour and markings, was nearly equally 

 common. In Geometers, I got six or more Plagodis rosaria — previously 

 represented in my collection by a single specimen, taken at Brandon in 

 1896 — and several large green Geometers, for which I have not yet suc- 

 ceeded in getting a name ; and there were many other species. 



[to be continued.] 



