THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 2lS 



entered on the list, comprising 385 Lepidoptera, 367 Coleoptera, 4 Dip- 

 tera, 15 Orthoptera, 16 Hymenoptera and 3 Hemiptera. The earnest 

 co-operation of the members is requested by your Council in this work. 

 There is no doubt but that it will be of immense value to future students 

 and will form a lasting memorial of our labors. 



The finances of the Society have engaged the earnest attention of your 

 Council. They would recommend that the cash on hand be expended in 

 books for our Library, under the direction of the new Council. 



The whole respectfully submitted. 



Geo. Jno. Bowles, President. 

 Montreal, ist May, 1877. 



The following were then elected to office for the ensuing year : 



G. J. Bowles, President (re-elected) ; H. H. Lyman, Vice-President ; 

 G. B. Pearson, jr., Secretary and Treasurer (re-elected) ; C. W. Pearson, 

 Curator (re-elected) ; Council — F. B. Caulfeild, Robert Jack, W. Hib- 

 bins, jr. 



After a pleasant conversation on Entomological subjects, and the 

 examination of numerous specimens, the meeting adjourned. 



G. B. Pearson, Jr., Secretary. 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY A. R. GROTE, 



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



Scopelosoma Pettiti. 



I have received from Mr. Fred. Tepper a fine and well marked speci- 

 men of this species, originally described by me (Can. Ent., 7, 188) from 

 specimens received from Mr. J. Pettit, of Grimsby, Ont. The new 

 specimen, from Iowa, shows the continuous, even, diffuse and broad 

 median shade very distinctly, running just inside the large reniform and 

 absorbing its exterior orange annulet. The t. p. line has a costal angu- 



