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Microca'lia diplitheroides var. obliterata. 



Euchalcia putnumi. 



Euchalcia venusta. 



Euchalcia cibspid^ea. 



Euchalcia contexta. 



Chamyris cerintha. 



Gatocala relicta. 



Catocala relicta hianca. 



Synelys alabastaria. 



Caripeta divisata. 



Synanthedon acerni. 



Atrytone pocahontas. 



Mr. R. S. Duncan (from Port Hope) of the Department of Agriculture writes 

 in answer to enquiries that he has not noticed many insect pests about the 

 orchards. He was called on to fight the Army Worm (1) on the Cobourg Eoad 

 east of Port Hope, and (2) on farms near Charlecote, Perrytown, Newcastle and 

 Solina. The pest was bad, but not nearly so troublesome as in Western Ontario. 



The insect collections made by school children have been steadily increasing. 

 At each of the five school fairs in the county, from two to seven collections of 

 insects have been exhibited; some of them very neatly and correctly labelled. 



Dr. Watson reports some interesting captures in Coleoptera, including a 

 longicorn {Goes oculata) new to his collection taken under a butternut tree 

 during the spell of unusually hot weather about the middje of September. 



In the neighbourhood of Peterborough the most noticeable pest was the Tent 

 Caterpillar. Very early in the spring the webs became conspicuous on wild 

 cherry, hawthorn and other trees and shrubs about the lanes and fence-corners 

 outside the city. The newly hatched grubs destroyed even foliage-buds before the 

 leaves had expanded. In neglected orchards they were also very abundant, and 

 had been nearly as bad the season before. Next to nothing was done to cope 

 with the pest till the caterpillars were nearly full-grown; there was then an 

 agitation, and in several places torches were used, but more than half the larvae 

 escaped by scattering. Towards the end of June the full-grown larvae began to 

 swarm in masses round the lower trunks of the trees and it was only then that 

 the extent of the mischief became apparent; throughout the dity the shade trees 

 showed great ravages in the heart of the foliage, especially basswood', maple and 

 elm. For a week when the creatures swarmed in great masses on the tree trunks, 

 they could be destroyed very easily, but the job was evidently too disagreeable 

 and was left undone. In every mass examined a few of the individual worms 

 proved to be those of the Orchard Tent Caterpillar, the vast majority being the 

 Forest Tent Caterpillar. In an orchard adjoining our house every tree was stripped 

 of foliage and when fire was applied to the webs so many of the caterpilkrs escaped 

 that the houses on all sides were fairly besieged and many garden shrubs, rambler 

 roses, for instance, were stripped. 



In the "fresh fields and pastures new" afforded by a change of residence 

 some interesting observations were made during the season, and quite a large 

 numlber of additions secured to your district director's collection of Coleoptera, 

 the collecting grounds being chiefly fungus, the fermenting bark, trunks and 

 branches of newly felled trees, and green foliage. At the beginning of May a 

 large alder swamp, partly cleared, yielded some interesting forms of Chrysomelian, 

 at first, of course, specimens that had hibernated. These included three species 



