THE CANADIAN SPORTSMAN AND NATUBALI8T. 



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is the appointment of an Bntomologist. ] 

 during their growth are more or less subject 

 to the depredations of insectf, therefore 

 enquiry will be made regarding the cause li 

 the Association is to be extensive and sua 

 ful in (heir work, the nomination ol an 

 honorary consulting Entomologist should nol 

 be neglected. The planter is not generally 

 supposed to understand the internal and 

 external diseases of trees in this latitude. Ii 

 is not too late to remedy the oversight. 



I wish to call the attention of Ottawa ento- 

 mologists to a Hymenopterous gall found l>\ 

 me some years ago near Billing's Bridge. It 

 attacks the roots of a species of Rubus. See 

 " Canadian Entomologist," vol. II., pages 68-98. 

 During the late meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science in 

 Montreal, in conversation with Mr. Bassett on 

 the subject, he informed me that the gall has 

 not been rediscovered since, and that he is 

 anxious to obtain specimens. Will some one 

 connected with the Ottawa Field Naturalists' 

 Club endeavour to find the gall ? He will be 

 greatly pleased if some entomologist devotes a 

 little time in the search. Mr. Bassett is work- 

 ing on the genus Diasirophus, and the root-gal Is 

 of Rubus would form quite a valuable addition 

 to American literature on the subject. 



In an article on the milk plant and its insect 

 parasites, page 10, vol. I, " Canadian Sports- 

 man and Naturalist," I made out a list of 

 insects which either live on its roots or on the 

 leaves when the plant is progressing towards 

 maturity. So far, I have shown that the milk 

 plant (Asclepias) supports insects which arc- 

 remarkable for two definite colours, red, 

 (reddish-orange) and black. An addition is 

 made this year in the form of a tufted cater- 

 pillar Euchates egle, Drury, which is also 

 red and black. The common Asclepias of 

 Montreal mountain was literally covered with 

 these caterpillars in August, 1882. I collected 

 a number of these larva, some of which formed 



rag. On th 

 fly emerged from on< 

 corresponds to the 

 TacMna (Lydella) dorypi 

 preys on tb<' larva* of I 

 beetle. This b 



I am anxious to Lear of my confn i 

 ences in rearing the moth, and • 

 regarding its parasites in I 



In a .-kin of a Grizzly I: 

 lately 1 found several 

 or pea imbedded in the hair. Bach pod 

 tained from two to four peas, evidently in the 



3tate oi preservation. II 

 bearskin earning healthy - ably 



many days since the animal 

 the Rocky Mountains — alter undergoing tin- 

 process of dres-ing. 1 have noti 

 curious ways by which - 

 been distributed, but the present instant 

 certainly extraordinary. The little | 

 found at the base oi the hair oi 

 side- of the skin of the animal. They 

 evidently attach themselves to the hair like 

 the seed of the common burdock, but tin- 

 latter becomes matted in the fur. I 

 pods seem to have a creeping they 



are covered with numerous - 

 which are hooked at the point, and they 

 all found at the base of the hair, from which 

 they were extracted with difficulty. I n< 

 this peculiar mode of seed distribution in 

 order to ascertain il ethers detected similar 

 circumstances in the hair of quadrui 



Speaking of Wasps' nests, at pag 



" Packard's Guide to the study ol 

 published in 1869, he says that "no paras 

 have been as vet delected in this Country." 1 

 look on " this count r\ '" entomological! \ . 

 embracing the limits ot Dr. I.e Goote's 

 geographical distribution of Goleoptera — i.e., 

 from the Gull' of Mexico to the Arctic Circle — 

 a plan which Dr. Packard follows in his Guide 

 — there lore Canada is within the m .. 



