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.does not reach the inner margin ; on the hind wings it consists of six spots arranged in a 

 zigzag manner, and the last spot next to the inner margin is remote from the rest ; besides 

 -these there are on the same wings three more white spots bordered with brown between 

 the zigzag band and the base ; and between the same band and the margin three black 

 .spots, behind the middle one of which is a rust-red spot with a black centre. The wings 

 expand from W^ to ly^- inch. This pretty species is found on the mouse-ear (Gnaphalium 

 plantaginewm) in May, and on the flowers of the spearmint in August." 



" Terias Mexicana Boisd. Boisd. Spec. Gen. 679. Figured on pi. 3, C. fig. 1, of 

 Boisd. Spec. Gen. 



"Wings brilliant citron yellow; primaries with a black border at 'the extremity, 

 rather wide, ending squarely at the internal angle, showing near the middle a rather deep 

 quadrangular sinus ; the outer edge slightly sinuate, and whitish ; secondaries, with the 

 middle of the exterior edge prolonged to a prominent angle, in the form of a tail ; a black 

 border of moderate width, a little dentated on its internal side, not reaching the internal 

 angle ; costal edge washed with orange yellow, mingling with the ground colour. 



" Under side of the primaries pale citron yellow, with a black central point, the edge 

 intersected with brown points ; the outer edge reddish near the fringe. 



" Under side of secondaries yellow, sprinkled with ferruginous atoms, with a blackish 

 central point ; edge intersected with ferruginous points, and marked near the external 

 angle with a spot of the same colour ; the posterior half having four or five other spots of 

 the same colour, of which two or three are in a line, and tending to form a transverse 

 band ; the middle of the outer edge more or less washed with ferruginous. 



" Female differs from the male in the upper side being yellowish white, with a wider 

 border, the quadrangular sinus more profound ; the anterior edge of the secondaries 

 widely orange yellow, and below, three ferruginous posterior spots form on the secondaries 

 a narrow, transverse, ferruginous band. 



" Texas — Louisiana — Mexico." 



Among the other insects taken were Papilio cresphontes, P. turnus, P. troilus, Colias 

 philodice, Terias lisa, Argynnis cybele, Phyciodes tharos, Pyrameis huntera, P. atalanta, 

 Anchyloxypha numitor, Pholisora catullus, Eudamua tityrus, Eudryas grata, Leucania 

 unipuncta, Lticanus lentus and Macrodactylus subspinosus. The latter species was very 

 common on the flowers of the tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), which was then bloom- 

 ing freely ; also on the sour gum or Pepperidge tree (Nyssa multiflora). 



The next morning we started early on our return journey and reached Essex Centre 

 in time to take the afternoon train home. Had the weather been favourable we should 

 .doubtless have reaped a much richer harvest. 



NOTES OF A JUNE RAMBLE. 



BY W. HAGUE HARRINGTON, OTTAWA. 



My office duties prevent me, unfortunately, from going afield during almost the 

 entire month of July in each year, and perhaps a few notes on my last ramble, 29th June, 

 may interest the inexperienced, and indicate some of the insects to be found at this time. 

 The special aim of this ramble was to visit a grove of hickories, Carya amara, and inves- 

 tigate the insects occurring in these trees, but I desired also to obtain Coleoptera and 

 Hymenoptera, especially sawflies. 



My out-fit consisted of a flat beating-net constructed so as to be folded up snugly 

 when not in use ; a sweeping-net on a folding pocket-ring ; a bottle containing coarse 

 sawdust, with a morsel of cyanide for beetles ; a wide-mouthed bottle lined with blotting 

 paper, and ha\ ing some cyanide in a cavity in the cork, for Hymenoptera and Diptera ; a 

 couple of boxes for larvae, and last, but not least, a note-book and pencil. The day is 

 favourable, the sun shining hotly, yet tempered by a slight breeze. My first capture is 

 a half grown Cimbex larva under an elm tree in the city, and in passing through the 

 lumber yards I obtain Buprestis consularw and Dicerca tenebrosa. Along the river are 

 seen many Neuroptera, including some fine species of Phryganidaj and PerliJse. On the 

 sides of a railway embankment (I am now in the Province of Quebec) grow a variety of 

 young trees and other plants. The willows are first tried and yield very abundantly, 



