40 REPORT OF No. 19 



Fired with the ambition to secure this beautiful and rare species, I 

 determined to take an early opportunity of seeking it in the locality whence 

 came the type and so prolonged a business trip to Toronto into an entomo-- 

 logical expedition to the then headquarters of our Society. 



I left Toronto by the International Limited on the afternoon of July 

 9th, 1903, reaching London the same evening. After supper I called upon 

 Mr. Dearness, who very kindly advised me as to the best remaining locality 

 in which to look for the food plant, and promised to see Mr. Balkwill in the 

 morning as to the most likely guide to the happy hunting ground. The 

 next morning Mr. Balkwill called for me at the hotel and after some delay 

 we succeeded in chartering a vehicle from a livery stable with a boy to go 

 with us. We drove some distance into the country to a likely swamp, and 

 then, leaving the vehicle in charge of the boy, Mr. Balkwill led the way to 

 where the Pitcher Plants grew. There were no great masses of them, and 

 probably they do not grow that way, but they were scattered about here and 

 there through the swamp. I searched many but found no larvae nor even 

 any trace of them. Once I thought I had found one, as there was frass 

 among the leaves near the root, but I found it had evidently dropped from 

 some larva on the tree above, and the plant was without any borer. Now, 

 I could never be mistaken about the frass of this species as it is reddish in 

 color. After spending over an hour in the hunt without success, I aban- 

 doned the search and went with Mr. Balkwill to where cocoons of Samia 

 Columbia had been found on larch in another part of the swamp, but saw 

 none. We then returned to the city. 



The next year I made a trip to Italy and so had no opportunity of look- 

 ing for this species, but last year I determined to make another attempt, 

 and as I also wanted to make a hunt at Kittery for G. Harrisii, I planned 

 a four days' trip to Prout's Neck, Me., to search for these species, have a 

 few dips in the sea, and a little golf. I left home on the evening of the 

 22nd July, and arrived at mv destination before 11 a.m. the following morn- 

 ing, and in the afternoon set out accoutred for the chase. It is a good walk 

 from Prout's Neck to the locality I was in search of, which I had not visited 

 for nearly twenty years, and when I found the place my heart sank, as the 

 area where the Sarracenia grew was so restricted, not occupying more than 

 about a fifth of an acre between a wood which shut it off from the road and 

 a salt marsh. However, I set to work, and as the result of about two hours' 

 work secured three nearly mature larvse. I then set out on a brisk walk to 

 the hotel, happy at my success. 



The next day was bad, as it rained all day, but towards five o'clock the 

 rain stopped and the sun came out, and I sallied forth for a walk, though 

 it was too late to go to the Pitcher Plants. After going for some distance 

 along the road, I came to where some evening primroses grew and started a 

 hunt for that lovely moth which used to be called AJaria Florida, but for 

 the present is known as Rhodophora Florida, and secured quite a number 

 of them asleep in the blossoms. I then turned off from the road across a 

 stretch of meadow land to a drainage ditch along which the Poison Hemlock 

 (Cicuta MacuJata) grew abundantly, and in a very short time I had secured 

 over a dozen practically mature larvae of G. Margividens, which Dr. Hol- 

 land calls a rather scarce species, and only left off grubbing them up because 

 I had filled up all mv tin accommodation with the roots and enclosed larvse, 

 and I believe I could have easily gathered fifty. 



The next morning I again visited the Pitcher Plants and devoted nearly 

 two hours more to the search, and having secured two more larva? and a 

 newly formed pupa, which I took to be of this species and which was dis- 



