68 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Ltcjena LUCIA, Kirh. — Common from the 1st June to the end of July. 

 This species was first noticed by me at Watchsheshoo, early in June, when 

 the weather was cold. They could then be easily taken by the hand. 



At Mingan (July 22nd), I saw one specimen of Argynnis (probably A. 

 Aphrodite, Fab.), but was not able to capture it. During my stay on the 

 coast, I did notice a single species of Hesperidoe. If the family are repre- 

 sented in Labrador, I would have noticed some of them between the months 

 of May and July. I visited ten rivers which enter the sea from the northern 

 interior of the country, and I explored some of these river banks from five 

 to ten miles inward, but found little of Entomological interest. It is only 

 on the coast, and in the immediate neighbourhood of settlements that I was 

 successful in procuring the material which I brought home. At Watchshe- 

 shoo, on a July evening, I noticed a species of Sphinx. 



Mr. Cresson, of Philadelphia, thinks that I have been on the dividing line 

 between the Canadian and Labrador faunge. He is, no doubt, correct regard- 

 ing the Lepidoptera, as the flora of the localities visited by me, are mainly 

 sub-arctic, intermixed with Canadian varieties, therefore where the former pre- 

 dominate, it is reasonable to expect a local fauna. But it is not the case 

 with Coleoptera, which, as I formerly stated, do not show any visible variety 

 from those frequenting the district of Quebec. 



I took two varieties (green and purple) of Cicindela longilabris Kirhy, 

 at Natashquaun, where they were uncommon. I also procured some species 

 of Hymenoptera and Di'ptera which are not determined. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



A NEW Thorn-Leap Gall. — The European thorn Crataegus crus-galU 

 Linn, has been cultivated for many years at Quebec, where it hedges gardens 

 and farms in the vicinity of the city. The leaves of this thorn appear early 

 in May, and about the beginning of June ; they are attacked by an insect 

 which deposits its eggs in the fibre of the leaf. The galls are small, each the 

 receptacle of a single larva, and from one to four may be seen on many of the 

 leaves. These galls are composed externally of fibrous denticulated sprouts, 

 which rise from the face of the leaf. The tops of the sprouts are beautifully 

 ornamented with knobs of a reddish color. On separating the sprouts which 

 enclose the mouth of the gall, a larva may be seen (in June) occupying a 

 smooth cell in the same vertical position as Solids strobiloides Osten Sacken, 

 in the pine-cone gall of the willow. I have watched and tried to rear the 

 larva from these thorn-leaf galls, but have not been successful in procuring 

 the imago. In 1866, I sent specimens of the galls to Wilson Armistead, 

 Esq., of Leeds, England, who has devoted upwards of twenty years to the 



