THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 179% 
Body black, covered more or less with brown decumbent short hairs. 
Rostrum angular, thickish, dilated at the tip, below the antennae covered 
thickly with snow-white decumbent pile ; antennae almost as long as the 
thorax, rufous, knob dusky-brown ; front marked with two whitish dots, 
one adjoining each eye on their upper side: prothorax wrinkled with a 
transverse discoidal impression, and near the base with an elevated 
transverse ridge: elytra wrinkled with a discoidal tubercle near the base, 
near the apex adorned with an irregular angular band composed of snow- 
. white decumbent pile : abdomen whitish with a double indistinct series of 
black dots : tibiae with a white ring. 
Variety B. With the tubercles of the elytra less conspicuous ; the 
abdomen snowy-white ; thighs variegated with white. 
I have no memorandum whence I received this variety. It is smaller, 
and probably American. 
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NESCELEANEOUS. 
Mr. Couper’s Lasrapor Tour.—The following notice lately ap- 
peared in the Afontreal Herald :-— 
“ GREAT ENTOMOLOGICAL Loss.—Mr. Couper, the Canadian Entomo- 
logist, who left Montreal on the roth of May last to collect butterflies and 
moths in Labrador, has had his splendid collection of rare specimens 
destroyed by some of the Indians, who took revenge in this way for some 
statement made by him in the Quebec Chronicie, about seven years ago, 
regarding the destructive practice of the tribe in spearing salmon on the 
then spawning grounds.” 
In a recent letter from Mr. Couper, who has returned from Labrador, 
he confirms this statement. He informs us that “a six weeks’ collection, 
consisting of 36 specimens of Colas Znterior ; 4 species of Argynnide 
(100 specimens) ; 5 species of Lycenide (200 specimens,) and a quantity 
of other material, amounting to about 4oo in all, were destroyed by 
Indians, who, I suppose, broke open my trunks, &c. during absence from 
camp. At all events the destruction took place between Mingan and 
Seven Islands, on the north shore. ‘The loss was not discovered until I 
examined the cases after leaving the latter place. I was informed by the 
lessee of the salmon fishery at Mingan that my life was not safe,as I 
helped the fishery guardian to prevent the Indians from spearing salmon 
on the Mingan river, and also wrote as above stated seven years ago. 
- Before I left Mingan, I went to the Zere who attends to their spiritual 
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