36 ‘ THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIS'. 
also spotted with several hairy ruddy-copper spots, and ornamented with 
four or five undulated hairy indistinct silver bands: underneath the tint 
of blue is very faint and the disk of the breast is bronzed ; the mesoster- 
num is hollowed out into a deep channel. [Previously described as 
Buprestis (Brachys) ovatea Weber. Rather rare in Canada; taken in the 
Eastern, Middle and Southern States. | | 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 
SMERINTHUS MODESTUS.—Several specimens of this very rare and 
beautiful sphinx have been captured in the neighbourhood of London 
during the past season.—W. S. 
CAPTURES AT NORTH Douro, Co. or PETERBORO, OnT.—Having, in 
accordance with my invariable custom, taken notes during the past year 
of such entomological specimens as I have captured in this neighbour- 
hood, I herewith furnish you with a list which, as the season for collecting 
has expired—save only with respect to those who search for insects in 
their /zdernacula—may perhaps find some small vacant space upon the 
pages of our Magazine. 
March 24.—A fine specimen of Atfacus Polyphemus was hatched m 
a box in my library. In emerging from the cocoon, it made a noise 
similar to, and as loud as, that made by a mouse behind a wainscot. It 
was, in fact, by this scratching sound that my notice was first attracted to 
the box. 
March 29.—I captured ‘a ‘small tortoise-shell butterfly”— Vanessa 
Milberti. It was fluttering on the snow-covered ground, tempted abroad 
by a bright gleam of sunshine, the thermometer indicating, at the time, 
30° Fahrenheit. 
April 8.—I discovered, in a piece of decayed wood, a larva of a Fire- 
fly—Photinus corruscus. It emitted a very pretty pale-green light. 
- May 9.—Mosquitoes made their first appearance; all through this 
year they were less troublesome than I have ever known them previously. 
May 21.—Swarms of Flea-beetles — Ha/tica — appeared on some 
cabbage plants growing in boxes. I watered the plants with tobacco- 
water, soon after which the beetles left them and gathered on the edges 
