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were most obliging, and did all in their power to aid us. In our annual 

 report, to which we have before alluded, we purpose to acknowledge 

 more in detail the individual services which were rendered. We would, 

 however, here especially express our thanks to W. Wallace, Esq., Assis- 

 tant-Superintendent G.W.R.R., for his kindness in obtaining much useful 

 information for us from the various station masters on the line. 



We have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servants, 



William Saunders, 

 / Ice-President Entomological Society of Ontario. 



Edmund Baynes Reed, 

 Sec.-Treas. Entomological Society, Ontario. 



[Note. —Seeing the importance of taking immediate action in carrying out the 

 suggestions made in the above Report, the Department has effected such arrangements 

 with a wholesale drug house in the city of Toronto as will enable farmers and others 

 to obtain a reliable quality of Paris Green there, at 30 cents per pound. It will be 

 put up in one pound packages, as suggested, with full directions for use, and may be 

 purchased in quantities of not loss than ten pounds, by remitting the amount of its 

 cost to Messis. Lyman Bros. & Co., of Toronto.] 



DESCRIPTION OF HESPERIA CONS.PICUA (EDW.). 



BY PROF. H. AV. PARKER. AMHERST, MASS. 



Mr. Edwards describes and figures a female of this large species, from 

 Michigan, in Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 1863. The following is a description 

 of the male, collected by me in Iowa, July 4. The spots are numbered as 

 in Mr. Edwards' account :■- 



The secondaries, above and beneath, are like those of the female. 

 Above, from the border of the primaries to near the base, the color is 

 yellow, except the sexual dash and dark veining ; an oblique line at end 

 of the cell, from which a dark shade extends to the outermost spot ; rest- 

 ing midway on this, a narrow shade runs from the first three spots along 

 the subcostal vein. The sexual dash, with its spots, is formed of two 

 confluent patches of black ; the outer one is oblong, parallel and con- 

 tiguous with the cell, its outer end slightly separated from the oblique 

 cross line ; the other patch is smaller and more oval, touches the basal 



