294 .THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES FROM MY DIARY, QUEBEC, 1893. 



BY A. W. HANHAM, WINNIPEG, MAN. 



On August toth, I left by the 4.45 p.m. terry for the Isle d'Orleaiis, 

 which was reached about 5.30. A short walk uphill brought me to one 

 of my favourite collecting grounds, and the remaining daylight was use- 

 fully spent looking for Coleoptera, a few good things being taken. 



About dusk I visited a patch of the spreading Dog-bane {Apocymwi 

 androsoemifolium, Lin.), which was in bloom, growing at one end of a 

 small clearing in the woods ; a road ran alongside the fence at this end, 

 on the other side of which was more wood The evening was clear, with 

 somewhat of a warm breeze. Here, in half-an-hour, I captured eight 

 species of Plusia, over 30 specimens. I was kept busy netting and 

 botding my captures. Things were so numerous that several entomolo- 

 gists could have found a lively and profitable thirty minutes' occupation ; 

 unfortunately, I had to tear myself away at 8 o'clock, to catch the boat. 



When I got home, I found the following to be the contents of my 

 bottles : Plusia ptitnami, Grt., 4; thyatiroides, Gn., i; U-au7'euni, Bdv., i; 

 mortuorum, On., 6;viridisignata, Grt., 1; anipla, Walk., i. The balance 

 consisted o{ precationis, Gn., and simplex, Gn. The only other noctuid 

 taken at this blossom was Dr aster ia crechtea. Cram., rather common. I 

 may add that before dusk I took a fine Plusia bimaculata, Steph., on 

 the wing. ^ 



BOOK NOTICES. 

 Random Recollections of Woodland, Fen and Hill; and Wood- 

 side, BuRNSiDE, Hillside and Marsh, by J. W. Tutt, Editor of 

 the Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. London : Swan, 

 Sonnenschein & Co. 



The name of the author of these two volumes must be familiar to our 

 readers, as an occcasional contributor to our pages, while he is widely 

 known as a writer of much scientific repute on matters concerning the 

 Lepidoptera. In these two books he has assumed a lighter and more 

 popular role ; his aim has been — to quote his own words—" to bring 

 under the notice of the general public, in readable and untechnical 

 language, a few of the interesting phenomena which are to be observed 

 everywhere around us, by those who take the trouble to look for them, 

 and to give such explanations of their causes as may easily be under- 

 stood, even by those whose scientific knowledge is small." He has cer- 



