200 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Scarborough coast, as if they had fully determined to cross Lake Ontario 
and visit their American relatives. One poor fellow, however, had come 
to grief, and floated with outstretched wings upon the rippling wavelets. 
The time was about eight in the morning, and there was no wind to blow 
them out to sea.—R. V. Rocers, Kingston, Ont. 
DORYPHORA 10-LINEATA, the champion potato-eater, has made his 
way east as far as this city. I saw several crawling about in September. 
RB. V. Rocers, Kingston, Ont. 
DIAPHEROMERA FEMORATA, Say’, OR SPECTRUM FEMORATUM, Harris. 
Are the ‘walking sticks” unusually plentiful this year? I counted, and 
could easily have captured, twenty-eight of them within a couple of, 
hours in a wood near the village of Vittoria, Co. of Norfolk. . They were 
all upon the trunks of oaks; not one was to be seen on any other kind of. 
tree, although beech and maple were growing in close proximity to the 
oak. On one tree I saw seven, and was delighted thereat, as in the 
eastern section of Ontario,.though to be found, they are yet far from 
common. It was at the end of August, and the process of copulation 
was still going on, yet I caught two little creatures of a light green colour, 
and the third of an inch long, which I took to be young “sticks.” Pack- 
ard says that in this genus “the antennæ are rather short ;’ my exper- 
ience is that in this species they are over two inches long. Both Harris 
and Packard accuse the Spectre of being very sluggish and inactive; I 
found that on the slightest touch—even when in the act of coupling—the 
insect made off, marching up the trees on their tall stilt-ike legs in a 
manner perfectiy surprising, till quickly they were far beyond the reach 
of pursuit.—R. V. Rocers, Kingston, Ont. i 
PERSONAL: 
Dr. A. S. PACKARD, JR., has just returned from a four months’ visit 
to the entomological collections of Europe, where he compared many of 
our foreign-named species of Lepidoptera to the types. 
: Dr. Joun L. LECONTE is expected home from his long stay in Europe 
this month of October, and will then commence the classification of the 
North American Curculionide. an event that all entomologists will re- 
joice in. 
Dr. Gro. H. Horn is preparing a synopsis of the genus Zcbia of the 
family Carabide. | 
