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second specimen some time after. They proved to be Strangalia armata; 

 later on in the season I captured in North Wales a pair of Strangalia 

 me/anura, one on a composite, the other on a small umbellifer ; and in 

 Somerset, on the slopes of the Quantocks, I captured the more rare Stran- 

 galia quadrifasciata, sunning itself on a hazel leaf. The genus Strangalia 

 is closely related to the Leptura, and, like that genus, with its near allies 

 frequents blossoms. So far I have not found any in Canada, though seme 

 species are, I believe, not uncommon, l'rom the wood I passed into the 

 kitchen garden, for I remembered a bed of orpine or livelong (Seilum 

 telephium) where, 25 years ago, I could be sure of some Red Admirals 

 ( Pyrameis atalanta) and an occasional Peacock ( Vanessa io), but alas ! 

 King Orpine's days were numbered, and Salpiglossis and Montbretia 

 reigned in his stead. However, I spied a bed of asparagus and went over 

 to review its rank.-;. I soon found that ladybirds were glutting themselves 

 on a small dark grub about the foliage ; it was probably the grub of the 

 asparagus beetle ( Crioceris asparagi), for I found a number of the mature 

 insects on the leaves. Though very small, this beetle is extremely beau- 

 tiful when alive, the vertical lines and cross bars which appear black in 

 cabinet specimens being of a rich dark green in the living insect. It has a 

 curious habit when alarmed of thrusting its antenna? straight forward in 

 front of the head and remaining motionless like a pointer ; this habit is 

 found in not a few of the Chrysomelians, as in some of the Longicorns, 

 notably the Saperdas. I saw no trace of the 12-spotted species (Crioceris 

 12-piinctata) ; indeed, at the time 1 did not know it occurred in Great 

 Britain ; but in September, 1907, I found both species on some asparagus 

 in the late Dr. Brodie's garden in Toronto, and the last two years I have 

 found the latter species abundant in Port Hope. In Dr. Bethune's day, 

 I understand, it had not yet appeared there. 



During the rest of my stay in England I did not do much collecting, 

 as the month of August forms a sort of interregnum in insect activity be- 

 tween the early and the late broods. But I returned to Canada fully 

 determined to prosecute my search among Mowers and foliage in the coming 

 season. I knew, of course, that I should thereby restrict my captures 

 mostly to two or three families of beetles — the Scarabs, Longicorns and 

 Chrysomelians, but from some such form of amateur specialism I was not 

 at all averse. 



Accordingly, from early April in the spring of 1906, I was out and 

 about whenever I got the chance. It was not till May that my efforts met 

 with much reward. A species of (Edemeris that frequents the dogtooth 



