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Life histories of the followintj; insects are given ; Xylina Bethunei by Mr. Lyman ; several 

 species of Hydrrecia by Mr. H. Bird : the Green-house Leaf-tyer by Dr. Fletcher and Mr. A. 

 Gibson ; the fall Canker-worm by Mr. D. E. Hinds ; several species of Catocala by Messrs. G. 

 M. and E. A. Dodge ; Nannotheniis bella by Mr. R. Weith and Prof. J. G. Needham ; and 

 Arctia virguncula by Mr. Arthur Gibson. 



In Economic Entomology there are important papers by Mr. E. D. Sanderson on Plant- 

 lice affecting Peas, Clover and Lettuce ; Diptera bred from Cow mannre by Dr. L. O. Howard ; 

 the Exportation and Importation of Beneficial Insects by Prof. F. M. Webster ; the Insect 

 Fauna of Human Excrement (a review) by Dr. J. Fletcher. Also a paper on the effects of 

 Scorpion venum by Mr. O. VV. Barrett. 



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NOTES ON THE SEASON OF 1902. (WESTERN QUEBEC.)* 



By Chakles Stevenson, Montreal. 



The season commenced early with every prospect of a good time for the Insect-hunter, but 

 the meteorological conditions soon became of such a nature that there was little sport for the 

 Lepidopterist. The temperature was low with high winds and perpetual rains. However, on 

 the 22nd June, when at Piedmont in the Laurentian Hills, I had the pleasure of adding a new 

 species of butterfly to the Quebec list, which was identified by Mr. H. H. Lyman as Coeno- 

 nympha inornata Edw. The day was anything but favorable for collecting, as there was no 

 sunshine and several showers. But on a plateau at a high elevation behind " La Montagne," 

 I caught five perfect specimens in twenty minutes time. On returning to the station I found 

 that Mr. A. E. Norris who had gone off in another direction had caught a weather-beaten 

 specimen. This insect has been recorded in Newfoundland, Labrador, Sault Ste. Marie and 

 Lake Winnipeg in Canada, Montana and Minnesota in the United States. Dr. VV. J. Hol- 

 land, who possesses a large series of this species, says that the Newfoundland type is distinctly 

 darker than those in the Northwest. Four of my captures are pale and one dark. By this 

 capture in the Laurentians it seems probable that its range extends across the continent on the 

 high grounds unfrequented by the Entomologist, and as these regions open up it may prove 

 to be found fairly abundant from Labrador by the Laurentians, along the north shore of the 

 Ottawa on to Lake Winnipeg and into the United States. 



At the same place and date while grubbing among rotten stumps I found an interesting 

 looking larva which was successfully reared to maturity, producing a fine specimen of a click- 

 beetle, rare to us, Pityob'us anguinus Lee. This calls to mind the cap- 

 ture of a very large Eyed-elater, Alaus oculatus Linn (Fig. 35) on the 

 slopes of Mount Royal on the somewhat early date of the 18th May, 

 resting on the trunk of a fallen tree. 



When the Natural History Society visited Piedmont on the 7th June, 

 a day of rain and drizzle, a few of us enthusiasts braved the elements 

 and I was fortunate enough to get a syrphid fly new to the very fine col- 

 lection of Mr. G. Chagnon and a moth Mamestra latex, Gn. new to mine. 

 A specimen of the Hag-moth Phobeiron pithecium A. & S. was ob- 

 tained in sweepings on Mont Beloeil at St. Hilaire on the 9th July. 

 In the Coleoptera my last captures were : 

 Gahrita junus, Fab., 25th May, Rigaud, Que. 



Fig. 35. 



Callida punctata, Lee, 9th July, St. Hilaire, Que. 

 Cychrus viduus, Dej., 11th July, St. Hilaire, Que. 



Read before the Montreal Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 



