^8 The Ottawa Naturalist. [June 



specimens of the beautiful Cncujus puniceits and the equally 

 brilliant Eros simplicipes and E. Icetus, Odonteus obesus, Synaplmta 

 Qucxii. This last named insect attacks the willow and some 

 years ago 1 took more than twenty specimens from a heap of 

 dead willow branches in my yard. 



On flowers there have not yet been many beetles, the only 

 captures perhaps worth noting being Anthaxia csneogaster, 

 LathriniCBiim pictum and Grynocharis pilosula. Assisting me to 

 rid my fruit trees of Aphides are 1 1 species of Lady birds and 

 their efforts are seconded I think by Podabriis pruinosus. This 

 insect is very common on the affected trees and I believe its 

 errand is a friendly one. Lastly in my pantry, in stale bread 

 left there as a bait, I have found many beetles, Omosita discoidea, 

 Colastus truncaius, a Cryptophagid for which Professor Wickham 

 cannot give me a name and numerous small fry which have not 

 yet been determined. 



By the way there is one other beetle 1 must mention as it 

 is both rare and curious, Nosodendron Californicum, I found this 

 for the first time on May 13th last year, when I took about 

 twenty in an old wound on the trunk of a balsam fir {Abies 

 gnmdis). This year I have taken other specimens in the same 

 place, the earliest date being y\pril 26th, but I cannot find a 

 single specimen elsewhere. 



Among the Lepidoptera I have not been doing much. The 

 hibernated Graptas with V. Antiopa and Milbertii put in an 

 appearance before the end of March. By the beginning of 

 April the early Blues, TJiccla Siva, T. indinus and T. iroides, 

 Anthocaris ausonides and A. Stella and Pieris venosa were all 

 abundant. A single specimen of Papilio Eurymedon was 

 observed on April 24 a month before its proper time of appear- 

 ance. The larvae of Linienitis Lorquinii left their hibernacula 

 on the apple trees and spiraeas before a leaf was out, but managed 

 to satisfy their hunger by nibbling the buds. The larva of 

 Anthocaris (I am not sure which species) was also to be found at 

 the end of the month feeding on Arabis perfoliata. 



