THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 339 



MISCELLANEOUS ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



BY H. H. LYMAN, MONTREAL. 



There must be many facts known to entomologists which, though 

 not sufficiently important to work up into an article for the entomological 

 magazines, are still of much interest, and worthy of publication, and I 

 would like to suggest that a page or part of a page at the end of each 

 number of the " Canadian Entomologist" be set aside for this purpose, 

 and that correspondents be invited to send brief notes of rare captures or 

 other interesting items.* 



Nemeophila Scudderi, Pack. 



In July, 1890, when at Nepigon, I obtained eggs of this species, 



which had been described by the late Henry Edwards under the name 



Selwyuii,\ and carried the larvae through to imago, and in Can. Ent., 



XXV., 248, published a paper on the preparatory stages of this species. 



On account of my rapid travelling across the continent and back again to 



Montreal, and being much occupied in collecting Lepidoptera and plants, 



sight-seeing and photographing, I was not able to give these larvse very 



close attention, and was afraid that I had missed some of the moults, but 



as Dr. Fletcher expressed the opinion that if I had descriptions of four 



moults, that was probably all there were, I ventured to publish my notes ; 



but in 1895 Dr. Fletcher kindly sent me a moth and 12 eggs of the form 



found at Olds, N.-W. T. These I failed to carry to imago, but carried 



two past 7th moult, and so found that my previous observations had been 



inadequate. In 1902 I was again indebted to Dr. Fletcher for eggs from 



Banff, and carried seven to imago, getting some nice variations, but as I 



was exceedingly busy, and knew that Dr. Fletcher and Mr. Gibson were 



also rearing the species, I did not take any further notes. 



Egg of Albuna Torva, Hy. Edw. 



A female of this species having been captured on a flower by one of 

 those present at the excursion of the Montreal Branch of the Ent. Soc. 

 Ont., to St. Adele, Q., on 6th June, 1896, the writer secured it and 

 obtained about 55 eggs, which were laid loose and all at once. 



Length, .875 mm.; width, .625 mm. 



Rather almond shaped, or somewhat like a hen's egg, except that the 

 transverse section would be oval. Perfectly smooth and shining. Light 



*The Editor will always be pleased to receive notes of this kind for publication. 

 tia Dyar's Citalogue this na^ne is erroneously credited to Neumoegen, 



