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growing vegetables, completely destroying them, but they also attacked 

 the young shoots of young apple trees, in some cases, that came under 

 my observation in a newly planted block of trees, entirely denuding the 

 trees of all foliage and cutting off the tips of the young shoots. I quite 

 expected to see a large brood of these insects emerge after the pupal 

 stage, but for some reason I cannot account for, few of them ever 

 emerged as imagoes. I was too busy at the time to make a collection 

 of the larvae, so I cannot give any details of the probable causes which 

 led to their destruction. 



The season just passed was remarkable for immense swarms of 

 J'anessa califonika. These insects, though not so numerous as in the 

 vear 1891, were everywhere in evidence and a large number are now 

 hibernating. 



I received several reports of the devastation of Tamarac and 

 Pine trees by the larva of Neophasia menapia, but these were entirely 

 local in occurrence and probably did but little permanent damage. 



I was much interested in receiving a box containing some specimens 

 of the wood tick. The local form Dermacenter venustus is always 

 fairly common, but those to which I previously referred are from a 

 district in the southern boundary of the Province. I have heard, on 

 various occasions, that the ticks in this district caused intense irritation 

 by their bites, and that those bitten by them often experienced great 

 suffering from the pimples and blotches which showed on their skin after 

 being attacked by this animal, and there is one case on record where a 

 child was supposedly killed from this cause. The specimens are smaller 

 than those found here, and though very similar to D. venustus, are, I 

 think, a different species. I have not had time to go over the specimens 

 and sort them out for further identification, but that will be eventually 

 done and the authorities can decide as to the merits of the species. 



My regrets are that I have little of interest in the way of captures to 

 record ; true I have secured duplicates of one or two noctuids that 

 previously stood as undescribed uniques, but I was fortunate in securing 

 a topotype of Eupithecia agnesata Taylor, the species having been named 

 by Mr. Taylor from an unique. The type is now in my collection. 



During last winter I submitted specimens of Colias, including 

 philodke, curythemc, eryphile and Kootenai, to Mr. Bean, who was a 

 great collector and breeder of this genus when located at Banff, Alta. 

 This comparison was undertaken to secure his views of the validity of a 

 variety of Colias that I have tentatively named Kootenai. Mr. Bean's 

 views are that this variety should be merged with eryphile, but he is not 

 prepared to say just where philodice begins. The specimens were later 

 sent to the Montreal Entomological Society for study and from this 

 source I am credited with the naming of a new species and the ex- 



