THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOG-IST, 19 



A VISIT TO AMHERSTBURG, ONTARIO. 



BY E. B. REED, LONDON, ONT 



Being recently on a visit to this pretty little frontier town, I devoted a 

 few hours to my friends the resident Culeoptera and Lepidoptera, and well 

 indeed were my labours rewarded, as the sequel will show. The season was 

 rather advanced for Lopidoptera, but there must have been an enormous 

 supply of their larvEe, for I noticed the fatal results of their "grubbing" 

 powers on many of the surrounding- trees; oaks, maples, hickory and walnut 

 in particular, were filled with larvae of Dryocampa senatoria, D. stigma, D. 

 rubicunda, Halesidota curyse, II. tesselaris,ar\d a variety of species unknown 

 to rae by name, though we have taken several similar ones oear London, but 

 have failed to rear them. 



Hearing that a lady in the town had a few specimens, I obtained an in- 

 troduction from a mutual friend, and soon was busy at work upon the odds 

 and ends of a most miscellaneous collection. Imagine my delight upon re- 

 cognizing that magnificent insect, PapUio thoas ! I was told that it was 

 quite common there, and was made the lucky possessor of a fine specimen 

 captured the week before, and I hope next season to procure a good supply 

 of this rare insect. I also saw a very handsome Sphinx, Chœrocampa tersa, 

 caught on the vines in a neighbouring garden, and a splendid specimen of 

 Catocala cava, both of which species I am inclined to think are hitherto 

 unrecorded as taken in Canada. From this collection I obtained a specimen 

 of those rather uncommon beetles Xylorydes satyrus and Saperda cretata, 

 captured at Paris, Ont. ; I also took several moths, new to me, and shall 

 endeavour shortly to procure their names. I do not know whether other 

 localities were visited in the same way, but Amherstburg seemed literally to 

 swarm with Danois archippus, reminding me of a similar occurrence in 

 Toronto about seven years ago. From all appearances a rich harvest might 

 be reaped by an energetic collector in this hitherto ungleaned field. 



The following were obtained by me : — Lepidoptera — F. asterias, P. 

 tarnus, P. ohracea, P. protodicCj C. philodice, D^ archippus, V. milberti, 

 V. progne, L. dislppus, A. cylele, M. tharos ; Catocala amatrix, C parla, 

 Aretia SaundersU, A. phalerata, and several of the Noctuadae not yet de- 

 termined by me through want of leisure. Coleopetra — Pdidiiota punctata, 

 Clerus nigripes, Leptura Canadensis, Saperda vestiia, Ligyrus relictus, 

 C/yfus campestris, Cassida pallida, Hippodamia maculata, Chrysomela 

 Bigsbyana, Diahrotica vitlata, Macrobasis Fabricil, several Graphisiiri, 

 and a most wonderful Curculio with a very alarming snout longer than its 

 body, and the thickness of a horse-hair, belonging, I believe, to the genus 



