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two specimens of a C/ulcophora, three or four of Dicerca divaricata, and 

 15 of a Chrysohothris, about the size of tlie apple-borer {Ch. femorata) ; a 

 dozen or more of a blackish weevil, akin to the strawberry weevil ; some 

 two dozen specimens of Eupsalis minuta, sexes evenly divided \ 25 

 specimens of Parandra bnputea, one specimen of Tragosoma Harristi, 

 and a beautiful specimen of the little Amphionycha fiammata. This last, 

 Dr. Bethune tells me, has seldom, if ever, been reported from Ontario, and 

 it may therefore be interesting to some of you to know that I captured a 

 second specimen of the same beetle about three days later, sunning itself 

 on a leaf of basswood, within 50 yards of the first capture. It was a bright, 

 calm day in July when I captured the first, and very hot, with the sun 

 almost at its zenith, and the log on which the insect lit was bathed in 

 sunshine ; small as the creature is, the sharp click with which it settled 

 was distinctly audible. As the basswood pile was beginning to fail me, I 

 happened on a clearing where some smnll maples had been felled. Find- 

 ing the stumps still moist, I laid chips and bark about their tops ; this 

 yielded me several new species, a beetle marked like the Megalodachne, but 

 smaller and with the ground colour light brown instead of dark chestnut ; 

 three or four specimens of a beetle allied to the weevils, I think one of 

 the Anthribidce ; and, settling on a stump in the sunshine, a magnificent 

 si)ecimen of Purpuricemis hiimeraiis, a longicorn of great beauty. 



At the end of August I was out fern-hunting at Lake Dalhousie, about 

 20 miles north of Perth. From a stump of white pine I took the pupa of 

 a longicorn, which later emerged as Rhagium li/ieatum, and while raising 

 some chips from the top of a fresh and resiny stump of white pine I drove 

 from cover a Cierid that was then new to me ; the head and thorax were 

 dull orange, the base of the elytra the same, the rest of the elytra was 

 alternate gray-white and black. Up to that time I had only found two 

 species, a small scarlet one, fairly common under bark, and one banded 

 with orange and dark blue, which is frequent on certain blossoms. Early 

 next spring, about April the 28tii, I found some white pine had been 

 felled in the winter, not many miles from the school in Port Hope. 

 Recollecting my find of the previous autumn, and thinking the fresh resin 

 might be the attraction, I laid some bits of bark and chips on the surface 

 of the stumps. On visiting my traps a day or two later I was agreeably 

 surprised to find three specimens of the resin-loving Cierid. About the 

 same time I got five more specimens from newly-felled pine, under the 



