THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



this country, and may well be called rare. It is elegantly 

 marked with the Baltimore colours, black and orange, with 

 round spots of white. 



C. — Here are two wings of a very large moth, that I 

 have just picked up from the ground by the side of the 

 road. 



F. — They are the two left wings of a Sphinx, and of a 

 remarkably large species : the insect nmst have measured four 

 inches and a half in extent of wing. I have never met with 

 the species ; its colours are but dull, a plain brown drab ; but 

 you see, on the under side of the hind wing is a large cloud 

 of dull crimson near the base.* These wings have no doubt 

 been snipped off by some bat, or night hawk, which had 

 caught the moth : if its body corresponded with its wings, it 

 would form a good meal for a bat. 



C. — The Silver-spot Fritillary (Argynnis Aphrodite ?) is 

 becoming common : this is a fine butterfly, for though its 

 upper surface is of rather a dull tint, the number and beauty 

 of the bright silver spots beneath are sufficient to redeem it. 



F. — It is a common butterfly throughout the summer ; 

 but the Banded Purple makes quite a short stay with us ; 

 it becomes very numerous all of a sudden, but by the begin- 

 ning of August they have all disappeared, with the occa- 

 sional exception of a straggler. 



C. — Among the clover blossoms, hundreds of little Skip- 

 pers are dancing in their peculiar jerking way from flower to 

 flower. The Yellow-spot (Pamphila Peckius) is abundant, 

 and another species much resembling it, the Tawny-edged 

 Skipper (Pamphila CernesJ. Two new Bomhyces were 

 evolved a few days since from caterpillars taken last fall ; 

 one of them is very pretty, the Silver-spotted Buff" (Pygcera 



— * It is not described in Dr. Harris's recent monograph of the American 

 Sphinges. 



