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Several s[)ecies, lutherto coasidd'ed rave, have been collected at these 

 lights, to which insects of all kinds are attracted in large nnmbers. 



Hymenoptera. — Large collections were made in this order during 

 the season, and so many species have now been secured that the publi- 

 cation of a local list will soon be advisable ; this, however, cannot 

 be accomplished until a number of species collected in this locality by 

 Mr. Harrington and Mr. Guignard, which are enti.ely new to science, 

 have been described. These are now, with this object, in the hands of 

 the Abbe Provancher, an eminent authority, who has already com- 

 menced the publication of additions to the Canadian list. Particular 

 attention may be drawn to a few species. A curious representative of 

 the ant family belonging to the genus amblyopone, hitherto unknown 

 in America and only recorded from tropical regions, is represented, by 

 two sf>ecimens in the collection of Mr. Harrington. Mr. Guignard has 

 been fortunate enough to collect specimens of a bee for which even a ■ 

 new genus must be created, and this step has also been found necessary 

 for some other of the nevv species. 



Lepidoptera. — In this attractive order a considerable amount of 

 work has been done, both in collecting arid in breeding from the egg. It 

 will be seen by the programme that a paper on the Diurnal Lepidoptera 

 is to be I'ead later in the winter, in which all items of interest regard- 

 ing these forms will be recorded. Butterflies and moths of all kinds 

 >vere remarkably scarce during the whole summer, with the sole excep- 

 tion of Danais Archipjncs, or " Milk-weed Butterfly," which seemed ta 

 take the place in numbers of Pijrameis Canlui, "'The Thistle Butterfly," 

 or "Painted Lady," which swarmed the year befoi-e, when, strangely 

 enough, the Milk-weed. Butterfly was very scarce. One of the most 

 intei'esting observations made in this order during the season was an 

 attack on the maples, and subsequently on the beech trees, in Beech- 

 wood, by the caterpillars of the small moth, Incurvarkt acerifoliella, 

 the '' Maple leaf cutter." The larva forms for itself a flat case, in 

 which ii lives, of oval pieces cut from the maple leaves upon which it 

 feeds. The trees for a space of several acres were severely attacked 

 and the foliage had the appearance of having been blighted ajid turned 

 brown. The case-bearing larvae were to be seen in myriads in every 

 direction, on the leaves, on the ground and on the stems of trees. The 



