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The pupa averages 17 mm. in length by 5.5 mm. in width; colour 

 dark mahogany brown, polished. Thorax, wing-cases, etc., finely 

 wrinkled with transverse lines ; abdomen polished, the segments finely 

 punctured at base. Cremaster stout, rugose above, excavated beneath, 

 with two very short points about half way from base, one on each side, 

 and at the tip two slender, divergent and capitate spines 0.4 mm. in 

 length. 



The first moth emerged on the 17th July, and others appeared during 

 the following fortnight. About half the brood wintered over as pupae, 

 the first spring moth appearing on the 15th April (in a cool cellar). 

 This was probably a month earlier than would have been the case out of 

 doors. 



Food-plants. — As the eggs from which these larvae were reared were 

 found on the European honeysuckle, leaves of this plant and many other 

 shrubs were offered to them. The larvae, however, avoided the honey- 

 suckle, and the only plants eaten to any measure were the red oak, curled 

 dock, willows and poplar. Of these, a note was made that the oak was 

 decidedly the favourite food-plant. Later, however, the leaves of all 

 woody-stemmed plants were refused, and plantain, dandelion and a few 

 other low-growing herbs were fed to them, plantain being the most eaten. 



NORTHWEST (CANADA) ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The fourth annual meeting of this Society will beheld on Wednesday, 

 November 5th, 1902, at 3 p. m., in the High School, Calgary. Alta. 

 Among other things it is proposed to devise an extension of its work on 

 the lines of a Natural History Society, and to that end to adopt as its title, 

 " The Northwest Natural History Society," or a similar title. His Lord- 

 ship the Bishop of Saskatchewan and Calgary will preside, and the 

 Department of Agriculture will be represented. If this extension is 

 carried out, the various objects will be entrusted to divisions of 

 entomology, botany, ornithology, etc., with a central presiding officer at 

 Regina. 



