6Q THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ferruginoides and euroa, Xanthia togata, Cinoedia pampina, Litholomia 

 napa^a (some beauties), Lithomia germana, and Calocampa nupera, cine- 

 ritia and curvimacula. 



Sept. ist : I commenced the month by adding three species to my 

 collection : Carneades velleripennis (a pair), Hydraecia obliqua (i) and 

 Xylina capax (a pair). A specimen of Plusia Putnami gave me a sur- 

 prise ; it was very fresh, but small. 



Sept. 1 6th : Besides some common species, I noted this evening the 

 capture of Glrea inulta, Hydraecia sera, Xanthia togata, Litholomia napsea, 

 and Xylina Georgii and iaticinerea. Hadena devastatrix and Drasteria 

 erechtea turned up again, very fresh specimens. 



My last records are : 



Sept. 2ist : Hydraecia cerina (i ; new to list). 



Sept. 23rd : A very small specimen of Agrotis saucia, and a worn 

 Feltia subgothica. 



Sept. 24th : Orgyia leucostigma and Leucania juncicola (one each). 



Some evenings early in the month water beetles, and especially a 

 small water " bug," were abundant at light. I generally used an ordinary 

 lamp with a good-sized burner ; sometimes a " Wanzer " lamp, and on a 

 few occasions I had the two lit at the same time ; both lamps had shades. 

 The trouble with the " Wanzer " was that things often got into the flame, 

 and now and then succeeded in putting it out, or making it smoke badly. 

 My custom was towards dusk to light the lamp and put it on the edge 

 of a table close to the window — which I had wide open — leaving a little 

 space between the tablecloth and the window sill ; (lots of things flew or 

 dropped down on the floor which would otherwise have sneaked out of 

 the window). I tried the window sill for the lamp, but found there was 

 often too much wind for it there, and on rainy nights that position was out 

 of the question. The house being a new one, the walls of my room are 

 not papered, so that the moths when they rested there were very conspic- 

 uous, and it was possible to tell at a glance, in most cases, what they 

 were ; whether Bombyces, Plusias, Geometers, etc., and to select the most 

 desirable first. 



I used a net as seldom as possible, for fear of overturning the lamp, 

 and also because — I think it was on the second evening of my venture — I 

 caught the end of a setting-board with my net, and sent it flying from a 

 high shelf to the floor, to the destruction of its contents and the loss of my 

 temper. It was only sometimes for the Sphingidae that I found a net was 

 necessary. Besides two large glass bottles or jars (charged with cyanide, 



