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Captures of Noctuidce near Orillia, in the province of Ontario, Canada West. — 

 During the season of 1875, I collected Noctuce near Orillia, in the province of 

 Ontario. The locality where I resided was the Couchiching Ilotel, a place of great 

 beauty, situated on a wooded isthmus, dividing Lake Couchiching from Lake Simcoe. 

 From the varied nature of the ground, enormous forest tracts, swamps, &c., I fully 

 expected the locality would have been more productive in insects than my last year's 

 place of sojourn, St. Catharine's, which was supplied with very little timber. In 

 this I was much disappointed, possibly owing to the bad season, more than the 

 locality : the season was an uncommonly cold one. This, combined with the high and 

 cold winds which prevailed at night during the whole summer, was much against 

 sugaring, and certainly rendered it one of the veiy worst collecting seasons I ever 

 experienced. 



I may here mention that Mr. F. Grant, who has resided at Orillia some years, 

 has found Agrotis fennica not unfrequent on a species of SptVcea, visiting the flowers. 

 He has also taken Plusia striatella, D. Comstocki, Agrotis gilvipennis, Adit. Chimon- 

 anthi, and other rare Noctuce. In spite of the above-mentioned drawbacks, it will 

 be seen the locality has not failed to yield several species new to science. These 

 have been determined and described by Mr. Grote, of Buffalo, to whom my best 

 thanks are due. The following species must be added to my list of St. Catharine 

 captures : Agrotis campestris, n. sp., Acronycta vinnula, Hadena hadestriga, P. angu- 

 lata, Noctua plecta, Phlogophora v-hrunneum, Agrotis gladiaria. 



Raphia frater, 4th July, rare at light. 



Diphthera Comstocki (Mr. Grant) ; fallax, 2nd July, not uncommon at sugar. 



Acronycta occidentalis, 7th June, common at rest and sugar ; mnrida, 7th July, 

 not uncommon at sugar; hasta, 30th June, rare at sugar; innotata, 11th Jidy, com- 

 mon at sugar; hastulifera, 15th July, rare at sugar; noctivaga, 15th June, common 

 at sugar ; supe^-ans, 11th July, at sugar, not uncommon. 



Noctua sigmoides, 2l8fc June, bred from larvse, afterwards frequent at sugar ; 

 haruspica, 15th July, very common at sugar ; phyllopliora, 22nd July, rare at sugar ; 

 haja, 29th Jidy, very common at sugar ; C-nigrum, 24th June, bred from larvse, 

 frequent at sugar ; hicarnea, 17th June, bred from larva;, abundant at sugar ; badi- 

 collis, 4th August, not rare at rest; ruhifera, n. sp., 24th July, very common at 

 sugar ; conflua, 10th August, rare at sugar ; Normaniana, 11th August, common at 

 sugar — much darker than St. Catharine specimens ; plecta, 16th July, not common 

 at sugar ; clandestina, 27th June, bred from larvse, common at sugar ; alternata, 8th 

 August, very common at sugar ; cupida, 25th August, very common at sugar. 



Agrotis tessclata, 11th July, very common at sugar and light ; messoria {Cochrani), 

 2nd August, swarming at sugar and light ; herilis, 11th August, not unfrequent at 

 light and sugar; tricosa, 18th August, rare at sugar and light ; g^daris, n. sp., 12th 

 August, not uncommon at flowers and light ; ctiicreo-macida, n. sp., 19th July, 

 not unfrequent over flowers ; turris, n. sp., 20th August, not unfrequent at sugar 

 and light ; friahilis, n. sp., 4th August, rare at sugar ; versipellis, n. sp., 20th June, 

 not uncommon at light ; campestris, n. sp., 5th August, not uncommon at light and 

 sugar ; sa^icia, 7th July, exceedingly common at sugar ; suffusa, 12th August, ex- 

 ceedingly abundant at sugar ; venerahilis, 9th September, rare at light. 



Pachnohia orilliana, n. sp., 13th May, not ilnfrequent at palms. 



