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Name of Species. When First Seen. Number Seen. 



Snowy Owl , , 25 About a dozen. 



White- win. "fed Scoter . Dec. 1 In numbers. 



Shelldrake ,, 22 In numbers. 



Bluebill ,, 22 In numbers. 



Northern Shrike ,, 22 One. Has been 



here about a 

 month. 

 Shore Lark Jan 6 Three. 



MEETINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL BRANCH. 



A good meeting of the Entomological Branch was held at Dr. 

 Fletcher's apartments on the evening of March 23, at which S 

 members were present. The chairman exhibited some rare but- 

 terflies taken in the Yukon Territory by Mr. Jos. Keele, and by 

 Mr. W. J. Wilson, both of the Geological Survey. Among those 

 taken- by Mr. Keele, the most remarkable were Erebia magdalena 

 and Eurymus boothii. 



Mr. Harrington exhibited his collection of Dytiscidae, all of 

 which had been recently examined by Mr. J. D. Sherman, 

 Jr., of New York. This collection contains 50 species from Ot- 

 tawa and will be of great value to local coleopterists in naming 

 their specimens of this little-worked family. There were 7 

 species which could not be named. 



Mr. Gibson showed a fine specimen of Sthenopsis thule taken 

 by him on July 6 last. This is the first authentic record of this 

 rare mcth ever having been taken at any other place than Mont- 

 real, the type locality. Mr. Gibson also showed a leaf of an Ixia 

 from the greenhouse at the Experimental Farm which was thickly 

 matted with the dead bodies of a species of aphis, every specimen 

 of which had been destroyed by a minute Chalcid parasite, and 

 read a note on the behaviour of the parasite when stinging its 

 victims. 



Mr. Young exhibited a series of nine specimens of Eucosma 

 solandriana, showing a remarkable range of variation. These 



