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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 agricultural 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.” * 
Epwarp NEWMAN. 
(To be continued.) 
Entomological Notes, Captures, &c. 
A few Remarks on some Collectors.—W hen 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 1, in company with three other collectors, did 
capture about that number a few 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 
paper, 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 
Jour of us were collecting; and as we were more than ‘hree 
* Rey. C. J. S. Bethune, M.A., in “ Report of the Entomological 
Society of the Province of Ontario, 1874,” 
