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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The banana merchants in our town have proved themselves possessed of curious 

 entomological stores. I have received from them a couple of living tarantulas, and not 

 long ago a living specimen of Caligo Teucer, which had emerged from a Chrysalis, hidden 



Fig. 26. 



in a bunch of bananas. The insect had been transported by sea and land from either 

 Honduras or some port in the northern portion of South America, a journey of several 

 thousand miles. This reminds me that in several consignments of eastern lepidoptera I 



V, 



Fig. 27. 



have found one Danais plexippus, Linn. One of the sendings was from Borneo, the 

 other from Java. We shall soon hear of its domestication on the mainland of Asia, and 

 it will probably spread all over China and Japan. The insects taken by the U. S. Eclipse 



