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were dozens of tliem but to-day I got but five, which I put in a box with a 

 pansy plant. I see to-night they are changing to the pupa state." The 

 specimens arrived at Ottawa on July 20 and proved to be Euptoieta claudia, 

 Cramer. The occurrence of the species in numbers, at Baltimore, Ont., is 

 very interesting, as the insect is rare in Ontario, only a few previous records 

 of the butterfly having been recorded by collectors. In the North-west the 

 butterfly is much more abundant, and was found, by Dr. Fletcher, very 

 destructive to pansy beds at Kinistino, N. W. T. Dr. Fletcher tells me he 

 has seen ihe females ovipositing on the wild flax, Linum sulcatum. 



Sparyanothis ((Enectra) flavibasana, Fern. In June, 1895, this 

 species was found in some numbers by Mr. J. A. Balkwill, at London, Ont., 

 and specimens of the moth were identified, through our late Curator, Mr. 

 J. Alston Moffat, by Prof. C. H. Fernald. Mr. Balkwill found his first spec- 

 imens at rest upon honey-suckle in his garden, but later found some pupae 

 which produced the moths. In the Canadian Entomologist, October, 1895, 

 Mr. Moffat says : "Presumably the larvse had fed upon the honeysuckle, as 

 chrysalids were found in the connate leaves with a thin silken web spun over 

 them, one of which I raised to the moth. There is plenty of evidence of 

 feeding having been done upon the plant, but nothing positive as to what did 

 it. A lookout is being kept upon the plants for the next brood." Under 

 date of November 17, 1905, Mr. Balkwill writes: "Your letter of the 15th 

 inst. is to hand. I am sorry that I am unable to give you the information 

 desired. I captured the moths on honeysuckle and found some of their co- 

 coons, which were reared to mature insects. We could not find the larvae 

 although Mr. Rennie and I kept a good look out for the next two years." 



The Greenhouse Leaf-Tyer, Phlyctcenia rubigalis, Gn. ~ Phlyctcenia 

 ferrugaUs, Hbn. In Canada this insect has never been reported as doing 

 anj' injury to plants other than those grown under glass. In the United 

 States, however, the caterpillars are known to feed on several kinds of crop 

 plants, as celery, cabbage, beets and tobacco, as well as on a great many orn- 

 amental plants grown outside, such as wall-flowers, dahlias, daisies, begon- 

 ias, roses, nasturtiums, geraniums, carnations, etc. The insect is abundant 

 in some of the large greenhouses in central and western Ontario and mention 

 has been made of injuries by the larvae in Toronto, in the annual reports of 

 the Dominion Entomologist for 1899 and 1900. Since that date Dr. Fletcher 

 and the writer have published the life-history of the species in the May, 

 1901, number of the Canadian Entomologist. When full grown the cater- 

 pillar is about three-quarters of an inch in length, of a semi-translucent 

 green colour, with two distinct black spots (one on each side) close behind the 

 head, and a green dorsal vessel showing distinctly down the middle of the 

 back, bordered on each side with a double white band. As its popular name 

 would suggest the caterpillar has the habit^.of drawing together portions of 

 a leaf, or of two leaves that happen to be contiguous, and tying them with 

 fine threads of silk. This webbing of the leaves is more apparent, of course, 

 as the larva reaches maturity, and owing to its manner of protecting itself 

 it is rather difficult to reach with a spraying mixture. A Paris green or 

 some other arsenical mixture would doubtless prove to be a remedy, should 

 the caterpillars be noticed working on any plants in flower gardens, or many 

 of them could be removed by handpicking. 



Rose Root-Gall, Rhodites radicuw, 0. S. (Fig. 58.) This large gall 

 which is from 1| to 2 inches in diameter is not infrequently found in Ontario 

 on and at the roots of many kinds of wild roses, as well as sometimes on culti- 

 vated ones. The insect which causes this conspicuous gall is a four- winged 



