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found this interesting longicorn settling in considerable numbers on the logs. It 

 had evidently lately emerged from its bores in the elms. I captured several pairs 

 hidden under flakes of the bark, and about a, dozen running along the logs after 

 flight in the sunshine. Only once before had I taken this creature and that had 

 been on the trunk of a standing elm, green and flourishing. It was, therefore, jof 

 interest to note that these logs were dead, and had been lying — some of them — for 

 three or four seasons. 



The excitement of this first find was hardly spent before I spied a newly 

 emerged specimen of Saperda trideniata, slowly waving its antennie and preening 

 itself in the ecstasy of a first sun bath. The elm saperda is no doubt a common 

 insect, and on summer evenings I have occasionally taken a stray specimen, 

 attracted to light through an open window; but I had never before happened on 

 its chosen breeding grounds. Larvcv and pupce were frequent in the inner bark of 

 several logs and stumps, and while it seemed emerging most abundantly in the 

 first ten days of June (exactly the season of the basswood saperda), occasional 

 specimens were taken throughout the month. This first day's bag tallied 17. 



The winter road turned sharply west at the neck of the swamp, leading past a 

 couple of woodpiles and a heap of brush. Here I captured (besides 3 more elm 

 borers) 2 basswood borers, a fine specimen of Cnllidium aniennatwn, and (on a 

 billet of white pine) a strange beetle that looked like a small Criocephalus or a 

 light-colored, long and narrow specimen of Asemuni moestum; it proved to be 

 Tetropium cinnainopteriim; evidently a rarity, for I have only seen one other; 

 that was last July in the Algonquin Park, taken resting in shadow on the under- 

 side of a newly fallen white spruce. 



In the middle of Juno I returned to the scene and right in the same tract 

 captured on a basswood log ro(jonocli(vruss inixtus, and my third specimen of 

 Hoplosia nuhila. The season of 1915, however, proved far from ideal for sun.- 

 worshippers, cold east winds more than countervailing the. bright sunshine. It 

 was on tliis second trip that I noted, at the north edge of the wood, some large 

 bushes of thimbleberry crowded with sprays of bud that promised well. ' While 

 following the winter road south through the heart of the wood I came across several 

 patches of the rare striped coral-root in full bloom. Then, after crossing a 

 couple of hardwood ridges, I descended to a rich piece of tamarac swamp, and 

 groping my way through a dense mist of mosquitoes, along a track of sphagnum 

 moss and decaying corduroy emerged at last on a gravel road intersecting the 

 wood from west to east. Despite bloodsuckers and bogholes I was not empty- 

 handed when I reached terra firma. From willow foliage I had gathered half a 

 dozen specimens of Lina scripta, on a hemlock stump Rltagiitm lineatum, and in 

 blossoms of buttercup and fleabane several specimens of Anthaxia (Pneogasier and 

 Lepiura vibex. 



To the making and through the heart of as pretty a piece of landscape as you 

 might find in all the Province went this gravel road : wooded on both sides and 

 flanked on the north by a, fringe of heaths — T>abrador tea, andromeda and American 

 laurel — all in bloom ; on the south by a shallow ditch filled with marsh fern. To 

 the west, at a bend in the road, the ditcli was backed by a low escarpment of shaded 

 bank, based with clumps of crested and prickly shield fern and occasional masses 

 of giant osmunda; the whole forming a kind of natural ha-ha. behind wdiich 

 spread, well above swamp level, a hardwood of maple and beech. Due south at 

 . somewhat greater distance the woods climbed suddenly out of the swamp and rose 

 rapidly to the sky-line, presenting to the enraptured eye tier above tier of l)alsam 

 and silver birch, elm and maple, in the varied shades of lush soft green that marlc 



