212 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The following report was read and adopted : 



REPORT. 



Your Council beg to present the Fourth Annual Report of the Society's 

 operations. 



They would refer with pleasure to the satisfactory progress of the 

 Society in the study of our science, evinced by the steadiness with which 

 the monthly meetings have been kept up, and the interesting and valuable 

 papers read at these meetings. Solid progress has been made in the 

 identification and classification of the insects of Montreal, and much 

 preliminary work has been accomplished, the value of which will appear 

 hereafter. The only cause for regret is that our number continues so 

 small, but the zeal and perseverance of the present members go far to 

 compensate for their paucity in number. Your Council entertain the hope 

 that at no distant day our membership will be augmented by the addition 

 of at least a few more students of our useful and interesting branch of 

 natural history. 



Twelve meetings were held during the year, at which the following 

 papers were read and presented to the Society : 



G. J. Bowles — " List of Eggs and Larvce Described in the Seven Vol- 

 umes of the Canadian Entomologist." 



H. H. Lyman — " Notes on the Occurrence of Argymiis idalta." 



F. B. Caulfeild — "List of the Geometridae of Montreal." 



W. Couper — " On Phyciodes tharos." 



H. H. Lyman — " List of Some of the Geometridae of Montreal." 



F. B. Caulfeild — •" Notes on Some Species of Chrysotnelidce Occurring 

 on the Island of Montreal." 



F. B. Caulfeild — " Notes on the Species of Meloe in Canada." 



H. H. Lyman — -" Entomological Rambles, Including Notes on Ento- 

 mology at the Centennial Exhibition." 



G. J. Bowles — '■'■ The Noctuidae of Quebec." 



G. J. Bowles — '' Notes on D'Urban's Paper in the Canadiati Natural- 

 ist, Vol. v., with Identifications of the Species." 



Some progress has been made during the year in the compilation of the 

 " Montreal Catalogue," and the names of 790 identified species are now 



