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scutellatus and dentator, are to be found on the pines also, and are noticed 

 gnawing the bark on twigs and semi-girdling them, while the trees are 

 disfigured by many old scars caused by similar operations in former years. 

 In the evenings numbers of them come flying heavily, but strongly, across 

 the river, and lodge often upon the Parliament Buildings, causing some 

 excitement to nervous promenaders on the Hill. The popular name for 

 confusor is " Ottawa cow." Colorado beetles are reported to be doing 

 less damage, and have been thinned out by Paris green, but their co- 

 workers the blister beetles (E. cinerea) are unusually abundant in the 

 woods, and a new foe is reported by one of our market-gardeners, who 

 brought four insects to a friend of mine, stating that they were, in immense 

 numbers, destroying his plants and flowers, having been first noticed on 

 wild Convolvulus. I found them to be Chelymorpha cn'braria, but was 

 not aware that this beetle occurred in any number or was known to be 

 very injurious. At the joint excursion held by the Natural History 

 Society of Montreal and our Field Naturalists' Club, on the 12th inst., at 

 Calumet (half way between here and Montreal), I was somewhat dis- 

 appointed to see comparatively little interest' taken in Entomology, 

 Botany seeming to almost monopolize the workers. I had looked forward 

 to meeting some fellow-laborers among the Montrealers. My " take " 

 during the day was but an average one, containing neither very many nor 

 very rare specimens, about the only novelty being Cidndela longilabris, 

 which I have not seen around here yet. I have been using a beating net 

 made according to description by Dr. Bailey in last year's Entomologist, 

 and find it an admirable instrument. 



Ottawa, 30th June, 1879. W. Hague Harrington. 



On the nth May last, while on the Island at Toronto, a fine specimen 

 of Papilio thoas flew past at a distance of not more than eight feet from 

 me, but as I was in a marsh I had no opportunity to capture it. Being 

 quite familiar with turnus alive, and with both species mounted, there is 

 no doubt at all in my mind about the identity of the specimen in question. 

 The butterfly was flying north when first observed, and continued in the 

 same direction as long as it could be seen. The appearance of this 

 butterfly at so early a date would seem to indicate that the species is 

 double-brooded here, unless it can be shown that the escape of the imago 

 from some of the chrysalids of the same brood is much earlier than from 

 others. W. E. Saunders. 



