THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 179 



"As yet we do not know whether the locust ravages are 

 wont to extend over the great fertile region to the north-west 

 of Manitoba, — that magnificent agricultnral region drained 

 by the Saskatchewan River; we hope, and we are strongly 

 inclined to think, that the plague, if noticeable at all, is there 

 trifling in character and moderate in extent. Should it be 

 otherwise, should that 'fertile belt' be as subject to these 

 visitations as the states to the south of it unhappily are, it 

 must prove a great hindrance to its rapid settlement. If, on 

 the other hand, it possesses an immunity not shared in by 

 the western states, it will certainly draw from them, before 

 many years are over, and as soon as railway facilities are 

 afforded for transportation of goods and produce, a very 

 large portion of those settlers who are now eaten out of house 

 and home. We fully expect to see the tide of immigration, 

 which for a few years past has been setting so strongly 

 towards the plains of Kansas and Nebraska, turned towards 

 our own more highly-favoured, even though more northern 

 regions of Assiniboine and Saskatchewan."* 



Edward Newman. 



(To be continued.) 



Enloynological Notes, Captures, S^c. 



A few Remarks on some Collectors. — When I began reading 

 Mr. Lewis's remarks on this subject (Entom.viii. 127) I thought 

 his rhetoric and clever insinuation respecting the eight 

 hundred Colias Hyale referred to myself (by the bye, I fail 

 to see why " defenceless" should be especially applied to 

 that species), as I, in company with three other collectors, did 

 capture about that number a ^e.v^ years ago, and, not having 

 heard of a similar number being taken by others, I presumed 

 he referred to me. Glad was I to find, on continuing, that 

 it was not so; and lest some readers, who have either 

 forgotten or did not read the circumstances under which 

 these Hyale were caught, should be misled by Mr. Lewis's 

 pajier, and so connect me with the attempted extermination 

 of the " gentle creature, Sinapis," 1 crave a few lines space. 

 At p. 179, vol. iv., of the 'Entomologist,' it will be seen that 

 four of us were collecting; and as we were more than three 



- Rev. C. J. S. BetluTne, M.A., iu " Report of the Entomological 

 Society of the Province of Ontario, 1874." 



