THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 37 
and sides of the boxes, suffering, evidently, from warcosis. 1 killed hun- 
dreds of them, while in this condition, without difficulty. 
‘I also, on the same day, poured tobacco-water into some ants’ nests 
on my lawn, and the ants disappeared. 
May 25.—Black-flies— Syria molesta—put in their most unwelcome 
appearance, covering, positively darkening, trees and fences and sides of 
houses. 
May 27.—Papilio asterias, P. turnus T and 2, Vanessa antiopa, 
and Thyreis nessus. 
May 29.—Chalcophora virginiensis. 
June 6.—Another specimen of C. wirginiensis and Chrysobothris fe- 
morata. 
Finding my currant and gooseberry-bushes infested with caterpillars, : 
I watered them with hellebore and alum—rz oz. powdered hellebore and 
2 oz. powdered alum, to a gallon of water—which I find an unfailing 
remedy. 
June 9.—Polyommatus Americana. 
‘June 10.—A friend brought me a ‘“ Cucumber-beetle”—Dvabrotica 
vittata, with some of its eggs, which, with a look almost of triumph at the 
discovery, he assured me was a “ Colorado Potato Bug.” Nor could I 
convince him of his error until I. showed him in my collection a specimen 
of the Diabrotica captured some years ago, long before the Colorado 
Beetle was heard of in Canada. JI may here mention that on two subse- 
quent days, two neighbours brought me specimens of the Awcylochira fas- 
cata and the Clytus speciosus respectively, with the assertion, very emphatic 
in the case of the second, that they were the veritable much-dreaded 
‘* bugs.” 
However, on the 4th of the following month, July, I was shown, by 
another neighbour, some larvee, discovered on a potato-patch in his 
garden, of the true Doryphora ro-lineata. 
June 29.—* Locust-tree Carpenter-moth”—NXyleutes Robinia. Limenitis 
arthemis Ÿ. 
July 1.—A “ Buprestis”—Ancylochira fasciata. 
July 3.—Clytus speciosus. 
July 3.—“ Common 3-striped Potato-beetle”—Lema trilineata. ‘Three 
specimens. 
July 25.—Clytus speciosus. LHypercompa Lecontei. 
