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'The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, 

 And chargeu perhaps with vtnom, tliat intrudes, 

 A visitor unwelcome, into scenes 

 Sacred to neatness and repose, th' alcove. 

 The chamber, or refectory, may die : 

 A necessary act incurs no blame. 

 Not so when, held within their proper bounds. 

 And guileless of oflfence, they range the air, 

 Or take their pastime in the spacious field ; 

 There they are privileged: and he who hunts, 

 Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong. 

 Disturbs th' economy of Nature'b realm. 

 Who, when she formed, designed them an abode, 

 The sum is this. If man's convenience, health. 

 Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims 

 Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs 

 Else they are all — the meanest things that ar( 

 As free to live, and to enjoy that life. 

 As Grod was free to form theni^at the first, 

 Who in Hi& sov'reign wisdom made them all." 



The Task— Line 5b8 to iine 587, 



BASSWOOD, OR LINDEN, INSECTS. 



By Arthur Gibson, Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 



Tlie following notes on insects found feeding on basswood, Tilia Amer- 

 icana, are chieiiy from records handed to the writer since the publication of 

 a paper on the above subject which appeared in the 34th Annual Report of 

 this Society, and of a further paper in the 35th Annual Report. In the 

 first paper 94 species are listed, and in the 1904 Report further notes on 

 some of these insects are given, as' well as notes on 8 other species, which 

 brought the list up to 102. 



ATTACKING THE FOLIAGE. 



Order Homoptera. 



Mr. W. Metcalfe, of Ottawa, who has devoted considerable time to the 

 collection and study of homoptera and hemiptera, has been good enough 

 to give me 15 records, which I am glad to include here. All of the species 

 found by him were on basswood. 



103. The common "Buffalo-tree hopper," Ceresa bubalus, Fabr. Five 

 specimens of a dark form taken, Ottawa, July 14, (Metcalfe). 



104. Telamona recUvata, Fitch, Ottawa, July 1, (Metcalfe). Mr. Met- 

 calfe tells me that he has taken later in July five specimens, all on bass- 

 wood, of a species of Telamona, which does not seem to be reclivata. 



105. Orrrtenis pruinosa, Say. Mr. Otto H. Swezey, in his "Preliminary 

 Catalogue of the Described Species of the Family Fulgoridae, of North 

 America, North of Mexico" (Ohio Dept. Agric, Div. Nursery and Or- 

 chard Inspection, Bull. 3) mentions basswood among a great many other food 

 plants of this homopi:erous insect. TJie insect is rare in Ontario. 



106. La7nenia vulgaris, Fitch. Ottawa, July 1, (Metcalfe). 



107. Bythoscopus variabilis. Fitch, var. Ottawa, June 19 to 24, (Met- 

 calfe). This insect is a near relative to the very injurious grape vine leaf- 

 hopper which is so abundant some seasons in Ontario. 



108. Agalh'a novella. Say. Ottawa, June 24, (Metcalfe). 



