70 



mind for careful and accurate methods of thought and observation ; but 

 also as inducing healthy exercise and out-door occupation, do everything 

 to encourage scholars to investigate Nature. In Great Britain, in France, 

 in Germany, there are good, cheap, illustrated works upon insects. 

 Many an Entomologist who has afterwards risen to eminence owes his 

 distinction to having had his attention drawn to the study of insects either 

 by a schoolfellow or from having been presented with one of these 

 books. We have absolutely no work upon the many beautiful Butter- 

 flies which frequent our Canadian woods, prairies and mountams. Such 

 a volume for Canada and the Northern States as " Coleman's British 

 Butterflies " would be an inestimable boon to many — -not only the 

 young, who would be charmed with the many treasures which they 

 would find they had everywhere around them ; but also to fathers and 

 mothers and aunts and uncles who are so often at a loss to find suitable 

 presents for children. Mr. Scudder's name alone is a guarantee that 

 the work will be well done. 



■:o:- 



THE FALL WEBWORM {Hyphajiiria cunea.) 

 By'J. Fletcher. 



In the above figure are shown 

 the caterpillar, chrysalis and per- 

 fect insect of the Fall Web-Worm, 

 one of the greatest pests to our 

 shade and fruit trees. The moth, 

 which in the northern form, as it 

 -. occurs at Ottawa, is pure white 

 y/i'/flfil^^^^W^:^^^^^^^^^ with gray antennce or feelers; its 



front thighs are yellow and the feet dark. Further to the south the 

 moths are frequently ornamented with many black spots, but I have 

 never seen this form in Canada. At the present time, many of our 

 shade trees are rendered unsightlv by the nests of the social caterpillars 

 of this insect and this note is inserted to request the members cf the 

 O. F. N. C. to set a good example by destroying them whenever they 



