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Mature larva. — Head green, with a pale blue line on each side ; body pea-green, with 

 lateral oblique pink bands edged below with white ; caudal horn crimson ; pupa reddish- 

 brown ; tongue case not apparent. (Abbot and Smith.) Feeds on black alder {Prionos 

 glaher) and whortleberry. 



Moth. — Head and thorax brownish rust-colour, whitish on the sides ; two white 

 spots on top of tlioi-ax, two black ones below it ; abdomen brownish rust-colour, with a 

 row of dorsal brown spots and a double row of white spots, and with lateral alternate 

 black and narrow white demi-bands ; fore- wings dull rust-colour or dark brownish, varied 

 with white and blackish-white spot at base, discal spot white and black margined, a band 

 of blackish lines crossing the middle of the wing, margined at the end broadly with 

 whitish, and black circlets on the hinder ends of the middle veins ; hind-wings whitish, 

 with an indistinct double median blackish band, a broad terminal dark brown band edged 

 above with blackish. 



32. — Ellema Harrisii, Clemens. 



Anceryx coniferarum, Walker, C. B. M. 

 Ellema Harrisii, Clemens, Syn. N. A. Sph. 



" " Morris, Syn. K A. Lep. Sm. Ins., p. 21G. 



Sphinx co7iiJe7'artim, Harris, Ins. Inj. Veg., p. 328. 



Larva two inches long, the body being smooth and nearly cylindrical, and thickest 

 in the middle ; the head is large, pointed above, flat in front, and green, with a yellow 

 stripe on each side ; body bright green, wdth a dorsal row of dark-red spots on the fifth 

 to the twelfth segments inclusive, with a bright yellow stripe on each side of the reddish 

 spots, and a lateral white stripe mixed with yellow ; prolegs rose-coloured, and a ventral 

 stripe of same colour ; has no caudal horn. Found in September deeding on the white 

 pine. 



Pinus strobus. — Dr. Guthrie says, "I have taken the larva about the middle of 

 September beneath or ascending the trunks of the white pine, from the leaves of which 

 it seems liable when near maturity to be shaken by the high winds." 



Pupa. — Chestnut brown ; tongue case buried ; very difficult to rear in confinement. 



Moth. — The palpi, head and thorax pale-umber, with the sides of the thorax at base 

 of fore wings, and the lower portion of shoulder-cases greyish. Abdomen brownish-gray. 

 Fore wings umber-coloured, varied with pale grey ; blackish-brown lines crowning the 

 wings, vnXh. blackish moon-shaped spots between the veins ; ends of veins tipped with 

 dark-brown ; fringes brown, spotted with white ; lighter towards the base. 



KECROPHOR I— B URYING BEETLES. 

 By J. Fletcher, Ottawa. 



The several classes of beneficial insects may be grouped under two heads : — First 

 there are those which do actual good themselves ; and, secondly, those which prevent 

 others from doing harm. It is of the utmost importance that the appearance of all 

 these beneficial insects should be known to those engaged in agricultural pursuits, or many 

 of the most useful of man's auxiliaries, will, without doubt, be frequently destroyed. 

 This is a very easy matter, for the members of the difi'erent families, into which insect.s 

 are classified by entomologists, may nearly always be recognized as such, at a glance, and 

 with very few exceptions the difierent genera of any family have the same habits. 



From the small size of insects, the enormous benefits and injuries which man experi- 

 ences at their hands, are apt to be underrated or even overlooked altogether. They are^ 

 however, becoming more appreciated, day by day, as the labours of specialists are made 



