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The above description is based on larvae raised from moth to cocoon 

 by myself at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, through 

 the courtesy of Dr. Skinner, the entomological curator. Dr. Skinner kindly 

 turned over to me a number of eggs of this fine moth, seven of which I 

 succeeded in bringing through the various larval stages. 



Note by Dr. Henry Skinner. — The Rev. Clement Hoyler, of 

 Strathcona, Alberta, kindly sent me a number of these cocoons last March. 

 He says of them : "About 75 percent, of the cocoons I obtained this 

 season were attached to young willow shoots, so far as they were brought 

 to me attached to anything. The remainder were attached either to rose 

 bushes, balsam or trembling poplar, and in individual cases to the stalks 

 of an herb, the twining stem oi Lo?iice7'a parviflora and a tamarack fence- 

 post. In all cases the cocoons were either in the midst of or compara- 

 tively near willow bushes. As to their height above ground, the distance 

 ranged from 8 to 18 inches as a rule." The moths are smaller than 

 Columbia and much brighter in colour. Dr. Fletcher writes me that this 

 variety was described as Platysamia Columbia nokomis in "The Biological 

 Review of Ontario," in October, 1894. As this publication is not in our 

 library, I have been unable to examine it. The larvae present many 

 differences from the descriptions of those of Columbia in the literature 

 The larvae were given a variety of plants,* but refused to feed on any kind 

 but Salix alba, and flourished on it. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL RECORD. 



With Mr. Gibson's assistance, I have been taking notes during the 

 past season of all rare captures of insects made in Canada, or of insects 

 which have occurred at unusual seasons or outside their known limits. 

 These will be worked up for the Entomological Record for the year, as 

 usual. I shall be obliged to all readers of the Canadian Entomologist 

 who will send in to me to the Central Experimental Farm, at Ottawa, any 

 records suitable for this purpose. I would also ask those sending in 

 records in the orders studied by them, to prefix in all cases the number in 

 the recognized check list of the order, or in the case of Diptera, the page 

 in Prof Aldrich's Catalogue. This is a small matter for those sending in 

 the lists, but is a much more serious undertaking when all of these lists 

 have to be consolidated and worked up in a short time after all the lists 

 have been received. — J. Fletcher, President Ent. Soc. Ont. 



•Ash, Norway Maple, Alder, Apple. 



