1909] The Ottawa Naturalist. 77 



past season we found the lamellicorn beetle, Ligyrus relictus, 

 quite abundantly on several evenings. This beetle which is 

 a close relative of the common May Beetle, or so-called June Bug, 

 has not in the past been at all common in the Ottawa district. 



A. G. 



The ineeting of the Branch at the residence of Mr. Arthur 

 Gibson on the 25th March, was very informal in nature. Those 

 present were Messrs. Halkett, Metcalfe, Groh, Baldwin and 

 Gibson. 



Owing to the few exhibits which were made the discussions 

 were of a very general nature. Mr. Metcalfe showed a box of 

 Psyllidae, some of which had recently been named by Mr. 

 Schwar/,, of Washington, through the courtesy of Dr. L. 0. 

 Howard. These little insects have not received very much study 

 in North America as yet. They are known popularly as "jump- 

 ing plant lice" from their active habits, although they resemble 

 much more closely a miniattire Cicada. 



The work of the Birch Skeletonizer, Bucculatrix canaden- 

 sisella, was exhibited by Mr. Groh, along with specimens of the 

 beautiful little moth. Some years this insect does much harm 

 to the foliage of birch trees. It has been found commonly in 

 the Ottawa District. 



Some parasitized chrysalids of Papilio turnus and Hyperch- 

 iria io, were shown by Mr. Baldwin. The parasites were probably 

 Tachina flies. 



Mr. Gibson exhibited a large potato shaped gall on Rubus 

 Hutkanus, which had been received from Mr. J. R. Anderson, of 

 Victoria, B.C. Specimens of the hymenopterous gall maker, 

 doubtless one of the Cynipidae, were also shown. These had 

 emerged indoors during March. A series of the noctuids, 

 Graphiphora praeses and Stretchia norntalis, also from British 

 Columbia, was exhibited. Sir George Hampson's Vol. VII, of the 

 catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalasnai in the British Museum 

 was laid on the table with the accompanying plates, and was 

 examined with much interest by those present These volumes 

 are of the greatest value to lepidopterists the world over. 



A. G. 



Dr. E. L. Greene, of the United States National Museum. 

 Washington, D.C., who has been studying plants of the genus 

 Thalictrum in western Ontario, was in Ottawa for a day, or 

 two, last month. 



