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by the unusual appearance of some specimens labelled Callosamia promethea. As I was 

 pondering and puzzling over them, it began to dawn upon me that it was not promethea 

 I was looking at, but angulifera, and upon enquiring, he informed me they were his own 

 •aptures in that locality. 



A few years ago I was put in possession of two pairs of angulifera through the kind- 

 ness of Mr. James Angus, of New York, the first I had seen of them. You are aware 

 how marked the. difference is between the males of the two species, the male angulifera 

 bearing a strong resemblance in both form and colour to the female promethea, with the 

 addition of the heavy whitish angular mark in the centre of the wings, from which I 

 presume it obtained its name. Mr. Kilman had three specimens, two males and a female. 

 He gave me a male, and on comparing it with the N. Y. specimens, I find it two sizes 

 larger, and with less yellow in the general colouring. The locality where Mr. Kilman 

 resides is particularly favourable for entomological pursuits — sandy hills and gravelly 

 ridges, with their appropriate vegetation — marshy flats full of flowering shrubs and weeds 

 — virgin forests with an abundance of decayed and decaying timber — belts of young 

 second growth trees — swampy and dry ground, and long cultivated fields with their 

 diversity of vegetable productions, all in close proximity to Lake Erie shore, whilst any 

 and all of them are within a few minutes' walk, making an exceedingly attractive 

 and productive hunting-ground for the collector. 



RARE MOTHS AT MONTREAL. 



BT G. J. BOWLES, MONTREAL, QUE. 



Last fall an important addition was made to our list of Sphingidse. A number of 

 larvae of Philam^elus achemon were discovered on cultivated grape-vines growing in the 

 open air, at a gentleman's residence in this city. Another western Sphinx, Deilephila 

 lineala, is taken here, but very rarely. 1 have heard of only two specimens in ten years. 

 Last year, a specimen of Samia Columbia was brought to me, captured in a central part 

 of the city. A few days afterwards I received a Hepialus thule, Strecker, described by 

 him in No. 12 of his " Lepidoptera," from a specimen sent him from here by Mr. Caul- 

 field. Mr. J. G. Jack, of Chateauguay Basin, also has a very beautiful specimen of this 

 moth. These three are, I believe, the only specimens in collections. 



NOTES ON THE ENTOMOLOGY OF VANCOUVER ISLAND. 



BY GEO. W. TAYLOR, VICTORIA, B. C. 



Since I came to this island, a couple of seasons ago, I have made a practice of cap- 

 turing any insects that came in my way, and I have sometimes made an expedition 

 purposely in pursuit of such prey. The result is an accumulation of about one thousand 

 species of all orders, which probably represents not more than five per cent, of our insect 

 population. * 



As my favourite studies are in another department of Zoology, I have neither the 

 inclination nor sufficient knowledge to work out all this material myself, but with the 

 help of entomological friends, resident, alas ! sadly too far off, I am gradually making 

 progress with the naming of my captures, and I propose, with your permission, to publish 

 from time to time in the Canadian Entomologist, lists, with notes, of the species that 

 have occurred to me. I hope that this will be both useful and interesting to Eastern 

 entomologists, as I notice that hardly more than one-half of the insects I have already 

 identified are named in the recently published check list of Messrs. Brodie & White, and 

 many of them will prove, I think, new to science. 



