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segment is a transverse row of shining black tuhereles, eaeh emitting a tuft 

 of hairs of the same color. ( )n eaeh side, from sixth to twelfth segments 

 inclusive, is a double row of orange-colored spots — those composing the 

 lower row more conspicuous than those in the upper one. There is also 

 a faint eontinuation of these spots on segments anterior to the sixth, but 

 they are scarcely visible to the unaided eye. 



The under surface is paler, of a blackish brown color ; feet black and 

 shining : prolegs brownish, with a wide ring of shining black. 



This larva, in common with most of the Arctians, was very quick in its 

 movements. "When disturbed it would run very fast. It shortly after 

 entered the chrysalis state, and finally produced the imago ; but the date 

 of its appearance has been lost. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Notes from the Far East. — Nematus ventricosus very abundant 

 here this spring. Pieris rapos the same. Mcloc an jisticollis very abundant 

 on Halifax common about the middle of May ; now totally disappeared. 

 Diptera and Hymenoptcra generally appeared early, and in tolerable 

 abundance. J. M. Jones. 



Halifax, N. S„ June 4. 187 1. 



A Prize tor Ontario Entomologists. In June. 1868, when in 

 Brighton, Ontario: a lad brought me from the woods two large living 

 moths, which I am almost certain were male and female individuals of 

 Eacles imperialism Drury, (so named by Dr. Packard, but better known as 

 Ceratocampa imperialis.) They had, however, become so rubbed and 

 broken in their efforts to escape, that they were worthless as cabinet speci- 

 mens. Harris has a description of the several stages of this splendid moth 

 in his " Treatise,"" giving June as the time of its appearance, and the leaves 

 of the buttonwood as the food of the caterpillar. Packard states (Synopsis 

 of the Borhbycidae, U. S.) that the larva has been taken on white pine in 

 Rhode Island. The oak is also mentioned as one of its food plants. The 

 Kntomologists of Ontario should be on the look out for this moth, as it lias 

 not yet been placed on our list of Canadian Lepidoptera, though the allied 

 genus Dryocampa is well represented in the Western Province. ; G. (• 

 Bowles, Quebec, P. Q. 



[Mr. Bowles is not quite correct in his supposition that this is the first 

 capture of E. imperialis in Canada. In 1865 it was included in the 



