178 THE CANADLA.N ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Mr. Bethune had also found them very numerous on the north shore 

 of Lake Ontario. 



In reply to a question, Prof. Lintner stated that European entomolo- 

 gists had come to the conclusion that the Aphis of the wild cherry and of 

 the hop were identical. 



Mr. Fischer called attention to the probable identity of Spilosonia 

 fuliginosa and rubricosa. He also exhibited a specimen of Catocala 

 obsciira just taken by him for the first time in Buffalo. 



The President called attention to the fact of the earth worm being the 

 host of a parasite, and therefore dangerous to fowls and poultry. 



An excursion of members of the Club took place to Ebenezer, where 

 a very pleasant afternoon was spent, and some interesting captures were 

 made, among the most interesting being Cicindela aticocisconetisis. 



The Club adjourned to the call of the President at the next meeting 

 of the Association. 



THE HIGHEST ELEVATION FOR NEUROPTERA IN THE 



UNITED STATES. 



BY DR. H. A. HAGEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



Mr. H. W. Turner, U. S. Geol. Survey, San Francisco, Cal., has sent 

 to me Phryganid cases from Mt. Conness, Mono Co., living in water at an 

 altitude of over 10,500 feet. They are 15 m. m. long, the front half 

 made by irregular small bits of stones, the apical half of short bits of 

 pine leaves, and the case being narrower ; around the case are placed 

 longer parts of pine leaves or grasses in a herring-bone fashion. A few 

 dry larv» and the shape and arrangement of the cases show them to 

 belong to the family of Limnophilidas, and to the group of Hallisus. 



Other cases were collected from a small lake on the north side of Mt. 

 Dana, at an altitude of over 11,500 ft. These cases are smaller, 10 m. m. 

 long, of little bits of mica and other stones, more cylindrical, sloping a 

 little to the end. They seem to belong to the family of Sericostomidae, 

 which is at least not contradicted by some remnants of dry larviis. 



