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bag my bird ; indeed, I chased it for two years before I caught it (the 

 species, that is, not the individual). It is a small insect, of very narrow 

 outline, and black in colour; when flying it is almost invisible, only the 

 practised eye can make out a minute and swiftly-moving shadow. You 

 will get some idea of the hunter's difficulties when I .say that I found it 

 fatal to wink the eye while marking its flight; the creature simply disap- 

 peared like the skylark at the last point of vision. For one thing, it has 

 a dodging flight, like that of a snipe, and to make its assurance of escape 

 doubly sure it never settles on the upper side of a leaf, but always under- 

 neath. Even then it is seldom off its guard ; if you cast so much as a 

 shadow, it is off like a trout in a pool. I tell you there was rejoicing in 

 the camp, if not feasting, when 1 came home with the scalp of Oberca 

 bimaculata at my belt. 



But in so fair a scene as the Port Hope Rocky Mountains, disap- 

 pointments cast but a passing shadow. The place was a perfect Paradise 

 of flowers, and as we wandered in sunshine beneath the vaulted blue, over 

 beds of New Jersey tea, through thickets of raspberry and thimbleberry, 

 among brackens and orange lilies, by fences festooned with grapevine and 

 smothered in dogrose, everywhere a riot of blossom and insect life — Nature 

 transfigured with the glory of the July sun, we thought of the wonderful 

 interdependence of all living things on earth, and felt — I hope I may 

 say it without irreverence — that it was good to be there. 



" Such life there, through such lengths of hours, 



' Such miracles performed in play, 

 " Such primal naked forms of flowers, 



,; Such letting Nature have her way 

 " While Heaven looks from its towers !" 



THE FAMILY NAME LYG.LID.L. 

 Dr. Bergroth (Can. Entom., Nov., p. 405) seems to think that Mr. 

 Kirkaldy has shown that Lygieus is a Coreid. I do not consider that he 

 has shown it at all. Kirkaldy states in the "Kniomologist," 1899 and 

 1900, that Fabricius, in 1794, fixed the types of Lygceus, Coreus, etc. 

 Fabricius does not fix nor indicate any types whiteverin these genera, all 

 containing many specie-. No type was indicated until 1801, when 

 Lamarck, Systeme Anim., p. 294. says : "Corps oblong, un peu etroit 

 (Ligsei, Fabr ). Cimex equestris, Lin. Ligaus equestris, Fab." Equcstris 

 was an originally-included species, and therefore is the type. This leaves 

 Lygceus as it is in the Leth, and Severin Catalogue. — N. Bank^. 



