THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 69 



In the Report of the Entomological Society for 1872, Mr. Saunders 

 says, in reference to this insect: 



" Every one must be familiar with the May-beetle, or May-bug, as it 

 is sometimes called, a buzzing beetle, with a rapid but wild and erratic 

 flight, which comes thumping against the windows of lighted rooms at 

 night, in May and early in June : and when the windows are open it 

 dashes in without a moment's consideration, bumping itself against walls 

 and ceilings, occasionally dropping to the floor, then rising again sud- 

 denly, it sometimes lands unexpectedly against one's face or neck, or it 

 may be, on one's head, where its sharp claws get entangled in the hair 

 and its further progress is stayed until a forcible removal takes place. At 

 such times it is quite a terror to those vrhose nerves are weak. 



''Although thousands of these summer's evening tormentors are 

 yearly, yea, nightly trodden to death during their brief season, yet 

 thousands of others rise to supply their places, and sometimes they are 

 reinforced by armies of tens of thousands. Then it is that oftimes serious 

 damage is done to trees, whose foliage they consume, their powerful and 

 horny jaws being admirably adapted for cutting and grinding the leaves. 

 Cherry trees are frequently injured in this way, indeed these beetles are 

 not at all particular as to what they eat ; the oak, the Lombardy poplar 

 and many other kinds of trees are just as readily attacked, if in their 

 ^way.'"' 



ON MR. COUPER'S COLLECTIONS OF LEPIDOPTERA MADE 



ON ANTICOSTI ISLAND IN 1873. 



BY AUG. R. GROTE, 



Curator of Arlicii/ata, Buffalo Soc. of Natural Sciences. 



The butterflies collected by Mr. Couper have been already enumerated 

 in the " Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences." They 

 were : Vanessa atalanta, Argynms atlantis, PJiyciodes tharos, Glaucopsyche 

 Couperi, Cyaniris lucia, Ganoris oleracea var. borealis, Papilio brevicauda 

 and Cyclopides mandan. The moths, as far as the Geometridae, have been 

 determined by me and were as follows : 



