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while the frosts which succeeded formed an ice-bridge which gave access to their places of 

 refuge, which in ordinary seasons remain covered with snow till the general break-up of 

 the winter, when they are rendered inacessible by being surrounded or covered with water. 

 Mr. J. D. Evans and myself, who are the sole representatives of the Entomological Society 

 in this district, took advantage of these favourable circumstances and commenced a vigor- 

 ous course of moss-hunting, lasting from March 1st to May 24th. During this period we 

 'Collected upwards of 1,000 specimens of over 100 species, of which the following are not 

 included in the Society's published lists. The numbers are those of Crotch's Check List, 

 and the determinations, with few exceptions, were made by Mr. H. Ulke, of Washington, 

 .and Mr. E. P. Austin, of Boston : — 



7496 Anchus pusillus. 



Hydrochus (nova species, Ulke.) 

 1579 Trichopteryx Haldemanni. 



" 2 sp. (nova species, Ulke.) 



2102a Pselaphus longiclavus. 

 2110 Bryaxis conjuncta. 

 2120« B. propinqua. 

 2134 Decarthron formiceti. 

 2139 Arthmius globicollis. 

 2295 Scydmsenus bicolor. 



" 2 species not determined. 



2366 Latridius deletus. 

 2572 Atomaria ochracea. 

 5670 Xanthoma Stevensii. 

 5771 Plagiodera cochleariae. 

 6294 Paratenetus gibbipennis. 

 9027 Tanysphyrus lemnse. 

 9293 Ceutorrhyncus semirufus. 

 1818 Philonthus palliatus. 

 7749 Stilicus biarmatus. 



All the above were taken from moss, and in addition the following, which are already 

 Tegistered as Canadian: 2095, 2100, 2102, 2103, 2113, 2124, 2130, 2149, 2150, 2164, 

 2283, 2285, and about 70 species of Carabidse, Staphylinidse, Chrysomelidae, Curculionidse, 

 'etc. 



3932 Alaus gorgops ; from a stump in Bleecker's Woods. 



On June 7th we experienced a heavy gale from the S.W., and on the 12th one of 

 my daughters, who was visiting at West Lake, Prince Edward County, went with a pic- 

 nic party to the Sand Banks, on the shore of Lake Ontario. There she found the beach 

 strewn with Calosomas and other Coleoptera. On her return she brought me 16 C. scru- 

 tator , 13 C. Wilcoxi, 1 C./rigidum, and many other beetles. On July 1st, Mr. W. R. 

 Smith being at Brighton, found on the beach at Presq' Isle a similar display of Calosomas, 

 and brought me 14 C. scrutator, 24 C. Wilcoxi, and 3 C./rigidum ; unfortunately most 

 of them were spoiled from exposure. 



On J une I had brought to me a rather fine specimen of Eacles imperialis and a good 

 male of Xyloryctes satyrus, both taken within half a mile from the city limits. 



With these exceptions, the season of 1880 has proved the least favourable to the 

 Entomological collector, in this quarter at least, of any I have experienced in my 21 years' 

 residence in Canada. Very few Lepidoptera were seen, either on the wing or at sugar; 

 beating the bushes was singularly unproductive, and I have more than once picked stumps 

 .and turned over stones for a full hour without getting 20 specimens of all sorts. 



