The winter of 1933-34 was the coldest to which the oriental fruit moth has been exposed in Canada since its discovery in the Niagara peninsula in 1925, and we were naturally very interested to see how it survived. Unfortunately we have to report that it survived very well indeed, although we are glad to say its larval parasites, both native and imported, also survived.

In the months of June and July field work was carried on by myself in western Nova Scotia at the following localities—Annapolis Royal in the Annaapolis Valley, South Milford in the interior and White Point Beach on the south shore near Liverpool. A number of life histories of various Microlepidoptera were worked out and data on the early stages secured. I offer the following notes on several of these species concerning which, as far as I know, our knowledge is very fragmentary. As in a previous work of this nature (1933, Can. Jour. Res. IX, 502-517) I have checked as far as possible both Fracker's larval classification (1915, Ill. Biol. Mon. II) and Mosher's work on the pupae (1916, Bull. Ill. Sta. Lab. Nat. Hist. XII, Art. 2).

In 1894 Horn (Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, IV) recorded twelve species of Histeridae as occurring in Lower California. One, Carcinops viridicollis Mars., was omitted, but Lewis (1888) and Leng (1920) Both record it from lower California, and one, Iliotona beyeri Schffr. (1907), has since been described from this region. In the present paper, one known and three new Histeridae are added to the list, thus raising the total numher from this region to eighteen.

The Island of Newfoundland is divided into tliree faunal zones—Arctic, Hudsonian and Canadian. The latter two are of about equal size but the first is only a narrow strip along the North and North East coasts. TheCollection hereinafter referred to came exclusively from the southwestern part the island in the Canadian zone. The locality is interesting because this part of Newfoundland remained unglaciated during the last continental glaciation. It possesses a large relict flora of species which have persisted since pleistocene times and it is possible that some insects of that period also survie.