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city, the sandy shore of the Ottawa had been so thickly covered with 

 them for a distance of several hundred yards, that at one stroke of the 

 net he had captured 47, which, strange to say, were all males. 



Prof. Saunders stated that he had made search near London for the 

 larvae of Papil'io cresphontes, where it had formerly been captured, but 

 without success. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a fine collection of Canadian species of the 

 genus Chionobas, and explained the great value of these insects on 

 account of their rarity hitherto in collections. C. Macotmii Edw. was a 

 new species which had been collected by Prof Macoun at Nipigon in 

 18S5, and the Rocky Mountains in 1886 Closely allied to it was C. 

 Gigas Butler, of which until the past summer only three specimens were 

 known in collections. Other beautiful species exhibited and described 

 were C. Ca/i/ornica, C. Chryxus, C. Jutta, C. Varuna and C. Uhleri, of 

 which Prof. Macoun had taken specimens in the Rocky Mountains. 



A pleasant and valuable paper by the Rev. George \N . Taylor, of 

 Victoria, B. C, was read, describing an ascent of Mount Finlayson, B. C, 

 in search of C. Gigas, and the success which had attended the party. 



Prof. Macoun, who had accompanied Mr. Taylor, described the man- 

 ner of flight of this butterfly, which was swift and ceaseless, as was the 

 case with the specimens of C. Afacounii taken at Nipigon ; all the speci- ' 

 mens taken, it may be added, of both species, were males. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited three specimens of the rare Papiiio Nitra, two 

 taken by Prof Macoun in the Rocky Mountains, the other by Mr. N. H. 

 Cowdry at Regina, N. W. T. ; also some interesting species and varieties 

 of Colias, regarding which there was discussion by several of the members. 



Attention was then called to the valuable paper by Mr. H. H. Lyman 

 in the October number of the Entomologist, and the beautiful plate 

 accompanying it. A series of the moths brought by different members of 

 the Council was examined in connection with this paper. 



Mr. J. Alston Moffat exhibited and distributed among the members 

 specimens of two new species of moths which had been captured by him 

 at Hamilton, and which had been described by Prof. Fernald and Prof. 

 Grote respectively as Frotcoteras Moffatiana and Scopelosoma Moffatiana. 



Mr. Fletcher showed specimens of an Halesidota and of its larvae, 

 which had been very abundant and destructive upon the Douglas Fir in 

 British Columbia during the past year. He also distributed a collection 

 of Coleoptera sent from Vancouver Island for this purpose by Rev. G. W. 

 Taylor. 



