. Annual report - Entomological Society of Ontario. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. 17 (G. longilabris Say),the rich rosy-purple (G. purpurea, 01iv.),(Fig. 6), and the deep bronzed-green (C. limbalis Kl.). My efforts to capture some of these aroused the curiosity of some habitants who were working in an adjacent field. At first they looked with the utmost astonish- ment at my proceedings, and shook their heads at one another as much as to say, He is very far gone; but soon a light seemed to dawn in upon them and there was a general clearing up, they came,in fact, to th
. Annual report - Entomological Society of Ontario. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. 17 (G. longilabris Say),the rich rosy-purple (G. purpurea, 01iv.),(Fig. 6), and the deep bronzed-green (C. limbalis Kl.). My efforts to capture some of these aroused the curiosity of some habitants who were working in an adjacent field. At first they looked with the utmost astonish- ment at my proceedings, and shook their heads at one another as much as to say, He is very far gone; but soon a light seemed to dawn in upon them and there was a general clearing up, they came,in fact, to the conclusion that I and my party were bound on a fishing excursion to the Falls of the Etchemin, and that I was prudently laying in a supply of grasshoppers for bait And shortly afterwards, when I Fig. 6. bad occassion to speak to them, I received respectful greeting and attention as one who knew luhat he was about. Resuming our journey we came to a region of second growth balsams, broken in upon by poorly cultivated fields in which blue-berry bushes abounded, and by tracts of green vel- vety moss dotted over with young pines. As we entered this region the passage of our vehicle disturbed a butterfly. " There goes Neonympha canthus," I said, but in a moment the thoughts of the incongruities of time and place for this induced me to leave my wagofi and go in search of the insect, and soon I had the great delight of securing for the first time, a living specimen of Debis Portlandia. Gosse took this species many years ago at Compton, P. Que., and D'Urban in Argenteuil county, on the River Rouge. It has since been taken by Mr. Caulfield and Mr. Winn on Mount Royal, and by Mr. Fletcher in the neighbourhood of Ottawa. The insect is, however, rare in the Province of Quebec. In the course of a few hours I took two others specimens, dilapidated females. I found that the ovary of one of these had been quite emptied, from the other I obtained by pressure five pearly-white eggs, l
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