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Ch Canadian Entomologist. 
VOL. IV. LONDON, ONT., NOVEMBER, 1872. No. 11 
REMARKRS ON LEPIDOPTERA COLLECTED AT FOX BAY, 
DMRICOS TI AND: THE NORTH SHORE. OF THE «ST. 
LAWRENCE, BETWEEN JUNE 18tH AND AUGUST ist. 
BY WILLIAM COUPER, MONTREAL. 
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When I decided on an Entomological tour during the past summer to 
the Island of Anticosti and the coast of Labrador, I fully expected to 
bring home sufficient material, not only to satisfy the few subcribers to 
the enterprise, but (after supplying them) enough to remunerate myself 
for the risk of the voyage and loss of time. Your readers are already 
acquainted with my misfortune; still, I hope that the lost species will be 
replaced, as it is my intention to go over the ground again (if God spares 
me) next summer. Entomologically speaking, the region is totally new. 
A great deal of knowledge can yet be obtained from another research in 
these regions, as the following brief remarks sufficiently show. For years 
past I wished for an opportunity to explore the Island of Anticosti,in order 
-to collect its insect java and obtain a knowledge of the species occur- 
ring theron. Before I visited it, I had an idea that it would be found 
deficient in many of the Coleopterous forms which exist on the shores of 
the St. Lawrence, to the north and south of it. So far, therefore, my 
surmises are correct, as I found it meagre, indeed, in Geodephaga. No 
Cicindelidae occurred in my rambles, and but two or three species of 
Carabidae were met with during the time I remained there. The species 
obtained belonging to the latter were evidently brought there by com- 
merce. The island is evidently rich in Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera, 
and probably Longicornia and Curculionidae. No doubt its fresh water 
ponds, when carefully examined, will be found to contain nondescript 
species of aquatic Coleoptera. The few species belonging to the latter 
order and Hymenoptera, collected on the Island, also those occasionally 
picked up on the Labrador coast, will, in due time, be described in the 
Can. ENT. 
There is nearly one hundred miles between the West point of 
Anticosti to Fox Bay, near the East, and where I collected. Heretofore, 
