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During the past season the only diurnals which I know of as having been taken in 

 this neighborhood, and which are really worth mentioning are : 



Feniseca Tarquinius. — One specimen observed at Forks of Credit on 1st July. 



Lycaena Comyntas. — -Very rare, only a few specimens taken, one of which I took on 

 26th June. 



Lycaena Scudderii. — Fairly plentiful on and about 15th June, but very local around 

 the food plant, — Lupin. 



Pieris Napi. — Two or three specimens of a variety of this butterfly were taken 

 on the 24th May, the only specimens observed. 



Last season, on the 1st July, the variety Oleracea-aestiva was very common at the 

 Forks of Credit, but on paying a visit there on the same date this year, not a single 

 specimen was to be seen. In fact, very few butterflies of any species were noticeable. 



Papilio Cresphontes. — A worn specimen of this butterfly was taken on the 24th 

 September, at Weston, a few miles from Toronto, by Mr. Donald Wilby. 



Collecting by electric light was also very poor this season. I do not know what has 

 come over the Sphingidse. For the last four seasons they have been very scarce. In 

 1893 as many as seventeen different species were to be taken, and most of these species 

 were fairly common, while some of them were very plentiful. Deilephila Chamaenerii 



Fig. 46. 



(Fig. 46) especially was very common in 1893. Even around the electric lights in the 

 heart of the city numbers of specimens of D. Chamaenerii were to be taken. During the 

 last two seasons I have not seen a single specimen of this sphinx. Actias Luna was fre- 

 quently observed this season, and as many as ten specimens were taken on the 27th 

 May. Regarding the other moths which come to light, they were in most cases very 

 scarce. 



" Sugaring " also was poor, up to July 1st hardly a specimen being attracted to the 

 sugar. After that date, however, several good noctuids were taken, but up to the present 

 time I have not got them identified. 



NOTES ON THE SEASON OF 1897. 

 By C. E. Gbant, Orillia. 



The season of 1897 was not a very good one from an entomological point of view, 

 though, as is often the case in such seasons, some good captures were made here in Orillia, 

 of which I made some notes. 



Brephos infans was taken by me this year on April 11th for the first time in thirty 

 years. Others were seen at a later date, but were too wild to capture. The locality was 

 a road through a birch woods. 



