62 THE REPORT OF THE No. 19 



I remember an effusion that I sent to the "Weekly Intelligencer," after 

 such an outing. It ran : — 



"Come to the wild woods, come away, 

 Now the sun is bright in the month of May. 

 And the mated birds, in boist'rous glee, 

 Fill the wide heavens with harmony ; 

 Now the breezes shake the hyacinth bells. 

 And the pale anemone whitens the dells, 

 And young leaves whisper soothingly. 

 And all is joy and light and love — 

 For the azure heaven is smiling above, 

 And the green earth laughs for sympathy. 

 Come where the Hair-streak* flutters by 

 Like a living leaf; where the butterflyf 

 ^ Whose snowy wings are dash'd with green, 



And with rich orange tipp'd, is seen; 

 Where the Chequer'd Skipper, + as you tread, 

 Springs lightly from his grassy bed; 

 And Clouded-border Moths § unfold 

 Their tender wings of speckled gold'; 

 Where Fuciformis quivers round 

 The stems with honeysuckle bound ; 

 And, like a fragment from the sky. 

 Sweet A lexis gambols by ; 

 Where Falcrda, whose hooked wings 

 Have eye-like spots, to the birch leaf clings; 

 While near it, where the catkins play, ^ 



Papilionaria larvse stray, 

 Mid forms like their own safe to be 

 From prowling Ichneumonidce, 

 From the busy tit that twitters near, 

 And other foes they have to fear. 

 ■Oh, come to the wild woods, come away. 

 Now the sun is bright, in the month of May I 

 Come, for a thousand sights shall cheer 

 Your eye — a thousand sounds your ear I" 



In Canada the brethren of the net are too widely scattered, the claims 

 of business are too urgent, the mosquitoes too troublesome for such gather- 

 ings to be very frequent, very numerously attended, or very thoroughly 

 enjoyable. 



But, notwithstanding, the sugar-woods, the intervales, the neglected 

 bottom lands of this country, the orchards, where the owners are better 

 farmers than fruit growers, are all fine hunting-grounds. * 



On the 16th of August I discovered an undrained hollow in which was 

 a thick growth of dwarf willows, sedges and flags. It was richly bordered 

 with asters, Joe Pye Weed and Golden Eod, in full bloom. The multitude 

 of insects clustering about the flower heads was truly astonishing. The 

 Painted Ladies were much in evidence. Pamphila Manit&ba was there; 

 and there was a great show of Humble-bees, wasps, ichneumons, dragon- 

 flies, flower-flies, etc. I spent a very profitable hour amongst them. 



Bombyces were scarce in the collections of former days. We have an 

 advantage now that was undreamed of when I was a boy, viz., the electric 

 light. Many of the gems of our collections have been taken at this light. 

 So late as the beginning of this month (October, 1905), I was passing by a 

 A^arehouse on the Louise embankment late at night, when I saw, under an 

 arc-light, a fine specimen of Lophodonta ferruginea, Pack, and one of 

 Charadra deridens, Gn. I had no cyanide bottle, nor chip boxes, with me; 



*Thecla ruhi. XThymele alveolus. 



^Anthocharis cardaminet. iVenilia maculata. 



