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Mr. Davis' s series of Basilarchia astyanax also included an 

 example of the variety albofascia, from Staten Island. 



Mr. Shoemaker exhibited a number of Laertias philenor, 

 obtained from chrysalids, all of which had the tails consider- 

 ably aborted. 



GEO. P. ENGELHARDT, Recording Secretary. 



Meeting of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, November 

 7, 1907. The President, Dr. Zabriskie, in the chair; fifteen 

 members present. 



Mr. Everett S. Howell, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was elected a 

 member. 



In an address entitled "Collecting Bombus at Banff, Al- 

 berta," Dr. Zabriskie gave an interesting account of a five 

 weeks' trip, undertaken during the past summer in the com- 

 pany of thirty-eight tourists, to the Pacific coast and Alaska, 

 returning over the Canadian Pacific Railroad. 



Leaving New York on the 24th of July, stops were made at 

 the Yellowstone National Park, at Portland, and Seattle, where 

 a steamer bound for Alaskan waters was boarded. Visiting 

 Sitka, Skagway, Glacier Bay, Muir Glacier, and Vancouver, 

 the journey was continued over the Canadian Pacific Railroad 

 to Banff, Alberta, where the travelers arrived on the 22d of 

 August and remained for two nights and a day. 



Giving due attention to the magnificent scenery, the beau- 

 tiful flora, and the many other attractions for which this 

 mountain resort is noted, Dr. Zabriskie did not neglect to 

 observe in a general way the occurrence of insects. Consid- 

 erable snow, still lying on the mountains, had fallen a few 

 days previously; nevertheless, a number of butterflies, princi- 

 pally of the genera Argynnis and Colias, were seen on the 

 wing. A species of flowering Goldenrod, not exceeding 

 eighteen inches in height, proved very attractive to bumble- 

 bees, which, not being very active, could be easily taken with 

 the bottle. Of the forty-seven specimens collected and exhib- 

 ited, only nine were females. The variation of color and size, 



