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Mr. Fletcher had found larvae on apple twigs in winter in Nova Scotia, 

 hibernating beneath a silken covering, which he thought were undoubt- 

 edly this species. He had also secured eggs during the past summer at 

 Ottawa, where it had been one of the notable pests of the season. 



Mr. Lintner also made remarks 



ON SOME OF OUR ORGVIAS. 



Some time since Mr. Smith named some specimens of Orgyia in his 

 collection as O. definita, stating that there were no leucostigma in the 

 Albany collections to his knowledge. More recently Mr. Dyar had seen 

 the specimens, and had pronounced them all leucostigma. He also 

 pointed out that the egg mass of leucostigma is covered by the female 

 with a frothy mass. That of defi7iita is almost bare, having only a slight 

 covering of hairs, and there is no frothy substance whatever. He had 

 reared from eggs received from Mr. Dyar a specimen of definita., which 

 certainly seemed distinct from what he had in his collection He had 

 also bred O. nova., which deposited its eggs in a single lajer upon the 

 surface of the cocoon, without any covering whatever. 



He had been especially interested in this latter species because of 

 its supposed resemblance to the European antiqua, and would endeavour 

 to get the early stages of both for comparison. 



Mr. Smith said that the late Mr. Hy. Edwards had made such com- 

 parisons, and had frequently stated positively that they were identical. 

 Concerning his determination of defi?iita, he had just been working over the 

 Meske material in the museum collection, which contained only what he 

 took to be definita. Mr. Lintner's specimens were seen soon after, and 

 were so well marked and clean that he deemed them the same, and said 

 so. Since then he had seen the egg masses on trees at Albany, and finds 

 them leucostigma. He had long known of the difference between the egg 

 masses, Mr. Lintner had very few specimens ; and he can only believe 

 that the finest and most sharply marked specimens were retained, and 

 these looked quite different from the normal, obscure and shabby 

 specimens taken. 



Mr. Lintner assented, that only the finer specimens had been retained. 



Mr. Riley said that he had carefully compared nova and antiqua in 

 all stages and found them identical. 



Adjourned until the 21st inst. at 9 a. m. 



