70 THE entomologist's record, 



to an ambition to begin his career of collecting where the older genera- 

 tion left off. The unbidden thought arises as to whether it will not be 

 the case, in the near future, that familiarity Avith the distant and 

 mysterious " localities " over which a glamour has been thrown Ijy the 

 records and the results of the doughty pioneers coeval with Doubleday, 

 may not lireed an undesirable contempt for a pursuit of fame. Perish 

 the thought ! If the reapers are more and their work lightened, yet the 

 results of tlieir labours have an ever-widening and more appreciative 

 public. 



In regard to the above possible drawbacks, our energetic friends 

 across the Border, have in some measure compensation for their isolation 

 from the more active and populous centres of entomological activity. 

 No enterprising " Field-Day " })arty, even though "personally conducted " 

 from our flourishing MetroiDolitan Societies, can ever hope to penetrate 

 the Highland haunts of Anarta cordigcra, or Fklonia carhonarid, nor to 

 ply the busy chisel to the detriment of the birch plantations, in search 

 of the slow-feeding larva of the rare Sesia scoUaeformis. 



To A. R. G. 



OVER of Night, in other lands ; Call forth thy spectres robed in 



than mine, gauzy light, 



Of night made mystical by many , Thy shadowy Indians and thy old- 



a sprite world fays. 



And bashful woodland fancies, made I So shall the Old World and the New 



divine unite 



By the moon's shining and the : On Natuie's bye-paths and Night's 



still starlight. | silent ways. 



I greet thee, my twin Spirit. Tell ' And when one day the still pro- 



thy tale cession moves 



More often to thy listeners over To seek those realms that men call 



seas : Heaven and Hell, 



Tell how the shadows brood o'er hill We twain may steal an hour, if none 



and vale : reproves, 



Tell how the voices whisper on the To watch the Moths in meads of 



breeze. asphodel. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES & OBSERVATIONS. 



Protracted Periods of Emergence. — From my experience it would 

 appear that Leucnnia littoraJis continues to emerge over a long period. 

 On May 8th, 1893, larvje were plentiful on the sand-grass right among 

 the sand-hills, and appeared mostly to be full-fed. Only a few of those 

 which I took rewarded me with imagines, as many of them bit holes 

 through the muslin covering of the breeding cage in Avhieh I kept them, 

 and escaped. Of the few that did go on unto perfection, imagines were 

 still emerging on July 16th. I captured the imago plentifully on sugar 

 towards the end of May. The insect is said to remain in pupa only for 

 about fifteen days. Hadena suasa (ditisimilis) is another species that 

 seems to have a very extended period of emergence. I took a couple 

 on May 2nd ; two or three more during the first week of May ; some more 

 during the last week of that month, from which I obtained ova ; two at 

 sugar on June 13th ; one at light on July 21st. In September I bred 



