234 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



BURNING OF THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NORMAL 

 UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE, ILL. 



On the afternoon of November 26, a fire was discovered in the south- 

 east portion of this structure, directly above the museum, which spread 

 rapidly, and in a short time consumed the entire frame-work of the build- 

 ing, leaving onlythe bare and blackened walls standing. The loss is esti- 

 mated at $150,000. The greater portion of the library, apparatus, and 

 furniture was saved, but the valuable museum, with all, its contents, was 

 destroyed, including large collections of insects, birds, plants and shells. 

 By this fire there have been lost the type specimens of a number of species 

 of Orthoptera and Hymenoptera, besides a large number of fine examples 

 of insects of all orders. Fortunately there were 22 drawers of the 72 in 

 the insect cabinet down stairs in Prof French's room ; these were saved, 

 together with about fifty smaller boxes partly filled. The types also of 

 the new species of Diptera, recently described by Mr. Marten in the Can. 

 Ent., were saved. The earnest workers in this institution have our sincere 

 sympathy in the disaster which has befallen them. We trust that the 

 enterprise so characteristic of Western people will be equal to the occasion, 

 and that the University will be promptly rebuilt. 



EGG AND YOUNG LARVA OF PAPILIO CRESPHONTES. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



On the 2nd of September I observed a number of young larvae of P. 

 cresphontes on the leaves of a small bush of prickly ash, XantJioxylum 

 fi'axineum, and among them some eggs, unhatched. The eggs were laid 

 singly and usually on the upper side of the leaf, to which they were firmly 

 •attached. They were about one-twentieth of an inch in diameter, nearly 

 round, slightly flattened, and concave at the base at the point of attach- 

 ment to the leaf; color pale yellow; not reticulated; almost smooth, 

 with a few irregular yellow dots and patches, as if yellow mucus had been 

 dropped on the surface and dried. The eggs were semi-transparent por- 

 tions of the young larva, with the black hairs which adorn it showing 

 through. The young larvae varied from a quarter to half an inch in 

 length. They were black, with an irregular pale patch almost covering 



