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With reference to the Manitoba cut-worm, referred to by Mr. Saunders, 

 he had succeeded in bringing to chrysaHs three of the four larvae sent to 

 him by Mr. Acton Burrows, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture for 

 Manitoba ; of these when the moth emerged one proved to be Agrotis 

 devastator, and the other two had been sent to Mr. J. B. Smyth, of New 

 York, for identification. They were very dissimilar in color, but the 

 markings seemed to be the same on each. 



Mr. Fletcher also stated that during the month of July he had found 

 a small Phytononms committing great damage in the clover at Dalhousie, 

 New Brunswick. 



He had taken it for P. nigrirostris at first, but fancied it might be a 

 different species, as nearly all the specimens bred were light cinnamon 

 brown in color*. 



He found that its habits differed considerably from those of P. 

 punctatus as described in Prof. Lintner's first report. He had brought 

 specimens for the members, and as he had prepared a note of the insect 

 for the Society he would not say more then. He had found a cocoon on 

 clover at Brome, in the Eastern Townships. 



Mr. J. Alston Moffat here exhibited specimens of the true P. punctatus 

 which he had received from Mr. Kilman, Ridgeway. Resuming his re- 

 marks, Mr. Fletcher said that he had obseved enormous damage done by 

 the Larch saw fiy, Nematus Erichsonii ; he had first noticed it near Que- 

 bec, and had traced it all down the Intercolonial Railway, wherever any 

 Larch trees occurred, as far as Dalhousie, where he found it abundant. 

 He exhibited interesting specimens of young twigs of Larix Americana 

 which he had received the previous week from the Rev. Mr. Fyles, from 

 Quebec, in which the leaves of the tree, although eaten down to the base 

 by the larvae, had later in the season, after the attack ceased, been able to 

 grow about a quarter of an inch. Mr. Fletcher thought that this fact, that 

 the tree was able to produce this after-crop of foliage, was one of very great 

 importance, as the tree might by this means be able to withstand the in- 

 sect for a much longer period ; he anticipated that some remedy, either 

 artificial or natural, would be found before long. 



He exhibited a small Homopteron, Podisus niodestus, which he had 

 found destroying the larvae at Brome, P. Q., on the estate of S. A. Fisher, 



* Since identified as Phytonomus nigrirostris. 



