THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 211 



Secretary -Treasurer — E. B. Reed, London. 



Librarian — W. E. Saunders, London. 



Council — J. A. Moffat, Hamilton ; James Fletcher, Ottawa ; R. V. 

 Rogers, Kingston ; G. J. Bowles, Montreal ; J. M. Denton, London ; W. 

 H. Harrington, Ottawa, and Wm. Couper, Montreal. 



Editor— Wm. Saunders. 



Editing Committee— Rev. C. j. S. Bethune, E. B. Reed, J. M. Denton. 



Auditors — Chas. Chapman, A. Puddicombe. 



After the routine business was concluded, Mr. Bethune offered some 

 remarks on the moth of the cotton worm, Ahtia argillacea. Twelve years 

 ago he found it extremely abundant late in the season on ripe plums ; he 

 had not taken the insect again until this autumn, when they were found to 

 be quite common in his garden. The opinion which had been advanced 

 by Prof. Riley, of Washington, that the examples of the moth taken in 

 these northern sections had flown northward from their breeding places 

 in the south, he did not concur in, but believed that the insect must feed 

 on some malvaceous plant in our midst, since the specimens he had cap- 

 tured were very perfect and looked as if they had just escaped from the 

 chrysalis. He referred to the fact of this insect having been found com- 

 mon in many of the Northern States, as well as in Canada. 



Mr. Reed stated that he had taken this insect also in London. 



Mr. Moffatt exhibited a number of interesting insects which had been 

 captured by him at Long Point and at Ridgeway, among others Papilio 

 cresp/iontes, P. marcellus, P. phiie?ior, Darapsa versicolor and Junonia 

 ccenia. 



Mr. Denton reported the capture of J. avuia and Libythea Bachmani 

 at Port Stanley ; also of Thyreus Abbotii at London. 



Mr. Moffat stated that this beautiful Sphinx, T. Abbotii. had been 

 comparatively common in Hamilton, and that a number of the larvse had 

 been reared. 



Mr. Fletcher reported having captured two specimens of Erebus odora 

 at Ottawa, one of them so perfect that he thought it was impossible that 

 it could have flown for any distance, and thinks it must have bred in the 

 neighborhood. 



Mr. Saunders referred to several other instances of the capture of this 

 rare moth in Canada during the past few years. 



Mr. Fletcher referred to the fact that during the last year there were 

 published a number of papers on popular Entomology, and he hoped to 



