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found not at all or very sparingly in one marsh being common in another and vice versa. I wa» 

 unable to discover the reason of this but I imagine that on closer examination the condition» 

 would prove to be more different than was apparent at first sight, or that many of the insecta 

 found therein are very local. 



From Sarnia we went by steamboat to Goderich, which town we did not find very interest- 

 ing from a natural history standpoint, the country being entirely of a clayey character ; so we 

 contented ourselves with a single day's trip which was very unprofitable entomologically, the 

 only thing of special interest which was taken being a specimen of Cychrvs Lecontei, a rather rare 

 carabid beetle. 



Our next stopping place was Southamptom, a locality which amply repaid both of us and 

 one where a great variety of country is to be found close at hand. The shore, which at Goderich 

 is a steep clay bank about 200 feet high, is again low and sandy, a magnificent beach which 

 strongly recalled the sea shore extending for some miles on either side of the town. 



The forest growth here is quite boreal in character ; white spruce, white cedar and juniper 

 (Junipeyns communis and J . sabina var procumhens) being the prevailing trees on the sand 

 dunes which form a ridge behind the beach. Back of this ridge a short distance south of the 

 town is an extensive swamp, in which the orthopterous fauna was also of northern type. 



The most interesting capture made here however was an Oedipodine, a new species of 

 Trimerotropis, which was found flying about on the beach, having essentially the same habits 

 as T. maritima, which is abundant on the beaches of the great lakf s further south, extending a 

 little above Sarnia and is also found on the North Atlantic seaboard. As soon as [ observed 

 this extensive beach at Southampton I thought of the probability that either T. maritima 

 would be found there, and if so at a much more northern locality than hitherto reported, or 

 that some other species would take i^s place. After considerable search the latter proved to 

 be the CHse and the species which replaced maritima, though closely allied, differs from that 

 species not only in structure and markings but also markedly in the character of the stridulation. 



I did not find much else of i)articular interest at Southampton, but this was doubtless be- 

 cause I paid small attention to anything but Orthoptera and Odonata ; but on general princi- 

 ples I should highly recommend the locality to entomologists who are studying the Ontaria 

 species of any group of insects, because I believe there are verv few, if any, places of exactly 

 the same character in the Province. I doubt if a wide and extensive beach is to be found any- 

 where north of Southampton, as the eastern shore of Lake Huron north of a point about ten 

 miles above Southampton is, as far as I know, continuously rocky. 



After spending a few days collecting at Southampton we hired a good sized fishing boat and 

 spent a most delightful week on the lake between Southampton and a small town called Tober- 

 mory, a few miles from Cape Hurd on the Georgian Bay side. Our party included the Profes- 

 sor's assistant and two fishermen, besides ourselves, and the object we had in view was the 

 examination of the east shore of the lake as far as the Cape and also a few of the islands. 



We cooked our meals and slept on board, though at night we of course always put into some 

 harbour, of which many fine examples are to be seen. At Tobermory, for instance, there is a 

 beautiful harbour, about half a mile long, the shore of which at the town is perfectly vertical 

 to a depth of about thirty feet below the surface and some three or four above, so that no wharf 

 of any kind is necessary and large vassels can come up close to the shore. 



A decidedly northern flora and fauna is to be met witji in this peninsula, but Prof. Macoun 

 says that half a mile or so inland these conditions give place to the ordinary hardwood forests,. 

 such as would be met with in any part of Ontario at that latitude. This northern climate is- 

 mainly due to its proximity to theccJd lake, but another factor also contributes in some parts 

 of the shore rendering the climatic conditions boreal in character. This occurs at certain points 

 where the limestone is very low and flat and only just a little above the level of the lake. The: 



