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Mr. Fletcher gave an abstract of a paper he had prepared detaiHng 

 some experiments he had made in breeding some Cohads from the egg. 

 He said he thought that the thanks of the Society were especially due to 

 Mr. W. H. Edwards for his most valuable papers published in the Can- 

 adian Entomologist during the past year, and he was of opinion that 

 they could not fail to have important results. Having been induced him- 

 self by these articles to take up this fascinating branch of entomology, the 

 results had been such that he considered them worthy to bring before the 

 members at this meeting. He had been fortunate enough to secure a 

 very much worn female of Coiias aoytheme, summer form eurythe/ne, from 

 which he had succeeded in breeding a lovely female specimen of the 

 autumn form, keewaydin. Thinking it would be interesting to compare 

 the larvcc stage by stage with C. philodice, he had obtained twelve eggs 

 of that species from a typically marked yellow female, on the same day as 

 the eggs of C. eurytheme were laid, and he gave a short account of the 

 differences noted between these larvae at the different moults, and exhibited 

 a beautiful series of specimens of C. ph Hod ice, drawing attention to the 

 different variations in the markings. The brood of twelve bred at the 

 same time as C. eurytheme, were very interesting, consisting of three 

 males, four ordinary yellow females, three albino females, and one yellow 

 female with very dull markings ; one larva was destroyed by the larva of 

 a Tachina fly. 



Rev. Mr. Fyles read an interesting paper on the Neuroptera and their 

 relation to the fishing interests. 



Also a paper on the occurrence in the Province of Quebec of the 

 Croton Bug, Ectobia gervianica. 



The President then read an interesting paper by Mr. G. J. Bowles, on 

 ants. 



The meeting decided that these papers should be submitted for 

 insertion in the Annual Report. 



Mr. W. A. Macdonald, agricultural editor of the Fanner's Advocate, 

 took the oi)portunity of expressing the pleasure he had derived from hs- 

 tening to the interesting discussions which had taken place during the 

 meetings, and to the vast amount of information thus given. He had 

 found these meetings so profitable that he hoped to have the pleasure of 

 attending them another year. The Entomological Society of Ontario, he 

 said, was doing a good work in gathering and distributing information in 



