132 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOME WINTER INSECTS. 



BY J. R. DE LA TORRE BUENO, NEW YORK. 



Some five or six years ago, on Lincoln's birthday (February 12), my 

 friend, Mr. W. T. Davis, took me collecting in Staten Island, and the 

 Canadian Entomologist published my little sketcii of the day. Every 

 year since I have endeavoured to repeat my pleasant experience of that 

 occasion, but never have met with success. Again I tried this year, and 

 in spite of the two weeks of excessive cold that preceded the holiday, 

 there were one or two things of interest to note :— 



The day was bright, with a temperature at freezing or j^erhaps lower, 

 and snow was quite deep on the ground. It was a day for walking, and I 

 found myself wishing for snowshoes to go over the frozen crust. My 

 collecting grounds are all about ten minutes' walk from my house in White 

 Plains. First I went to a swamp, mostly under water and now covered 

 with ice, but found nothing. Walking along the aqueduct, I kept on the 

 look-out for likely-looking trees, but found none that gave results. Finally 

 the Bronx River was reached, and in a field through which it runs, many 

 specimens of the little Perlid, Capiiia iiecyda/oides, were found crawling 

 actively about on the snow. Some had wandered out of the sunshine and 

 were quite torpid, but others were very agile and endeavoured to hide 

 under the snow crystals to avoid capture. Here also were taken a couple 

 of undetermined gnats which were crawling over the snow. On my way 

 home I came across two sycamores, and under the flakes of loose bark 

 took a dozen or so Corythuca ciliata. In the afternoon, during a walk, I 

 noticed a dead and peeling sapling from which on one or two other occa- 

 sions I had removed a part of the bark with satisfactory results. Again I 

 tried it, and to my satisfaction found in a part of the unbarked portion of 

 the branches a nice series of the Aradid, Aneurus Fiskei, Heid. I found 

 not only the adult, but also the ova and nymphs in several stages. 



This was indeed a very different day from the other, but on the whole 

 it was not very disappointing, considering the desultory nature of my col- 

 lecting. The capture of A?ieurus Fiskei alone was sufficient to make it 

 noteworthy. 



The Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario, 1907, has recently been issued and distributed by the Department 

 of Agriculture at Toronto to all our subscribers who have paid up their 

 dues for the current year. Among the important papers may be men- 

 tioned Mr. Jarvis's List of the Scale Insects of Ontario, and Dr. Fletcher's 

 Entomological Record for 1907. 



