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A Parasite op Datana angusii G. & E. 



Last year I found larvae of D. angusii feeding upon hickory. I succeeded 

 in bringing a number of them to perfection. Tlie first of the moths appeared 

 on May 31st last, and others followed; but each of two of the chrysalids produced 

 a lively specimen of Exochilum mundum Say. The front of the chrysalis-case 

 broke away to give the parasite exit. 



Basilona impekialis, Drury. 



May 31st. An imago of B. imperialis appeared in my breeding cage, from a 

 larva obtained in September of last year. Specimens of this fine moth vi^ere taken 

 in tbis locality up to July 11th. 



Phlegethontius cingulata, Fab. 



On the 18th of September, a neighbour's son brought me a living specimen of 

 P. cingulata, that had been attracted by the electric light at the toll gate, on the 

 Aylmer Boad, at the corner of Front Street, Hull. 



The specimen was so perfect, so beautifully fresh, that it was hard to believe 

 that it had come from " away down South." And yet, to the best of my knowledge, 

 the larva of the species has never been found in Canada. Indeed, I believe that 

 no capture of the moth has hitherto been recorded in the Province of Quebec. 



I am indebted to Mr. A. F. Winn for the following notices of captures of the 

 species which he has found in, our Canadian Entomological publications : 



"Mr. Mcintosh took it at St. John, K.B., Oct. 5, 1902. (See An. Eep- Ent. 

 Soc. of Ont. 1902, page 93.)." 



"Mr. Moffat recorded it 30 years ago, from Long Point, Ontario (See Can. 

 Ent. XIIL 256)." 



"It was captured at Orono, Maine. (See Can. Ent., XVI, 21) by Mrs. C. H- 

 Fernald." 



P. cingulata is considered a form or variety of the European Sphinx convol- 

 vuli. If my memory serves me aright, the European moth has more of a grey or 

 bluish tinge than P. cingulata. There is, however, a close resemblance between 

 the two. 



In that handsome volume " British and European Butterflies and Moths " by 

 A. W. Kappel and W. Egmont Kirby, on Plate XIII, there is a coloured repre- 

 sentation of a larva of 8. convolvuli. It shows a length of four inches. The 

 dorsal parts of the larva are dark brown; the lower, tawny. The seven oblique 

 side lines are of a darker brown bordered underneath with tawny. The spiracles 

 are black in white rings. The horn is of a dark neutral tint. The larva is repre- 

 sented as feeding upon the small bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis L.). Another 

 food plant is said to be Impatiens noli-me-tangere (See Stainton's Manual of 

 Butterflies and Moths, page 90). 



As food-plants of P. cingulata Dr. John B. Smith gives " Morning glory, sweet 

 potato and other Ipomcea and Convolvulus species." (Insects of New Jersey, 

 page 387.) 



Another Gelechian. 



In the beginning of September, Miss Faith Fyles, B.A., Assistant Botanist 

 for the Department of Agriculture, brought me from a swamp, 25 miles north of 

 Hull, two galls on Aster junceus Ait. Each gall was on a stem and was about 



