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mills and other places where there is fermenting vegetable matter. Both 

 writers, who are Fourth-year students in the Ontario Agricultural College, 

 were complimented on the excellence of their papers and the careful 

 scientific work which they had performed. 



Owing to the lamented death of Dr. Fletcher, the following officers 

 were elected : 



President — Tennyson D. Jarvis, B. S. A., Lecturer in Entomology and 

 Zoology, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. 



Vice- President — E. M. Walker, M. D., Lecturer in the Biological 

 Department of the University of Toronto. 



Montreal Branch. 



At the monthly meeting of the Montreal Branch, held at 850 St. 

 Hubert Street, on Saturday evening, November 14th, the following reso- 

 lution was passed : 



Moved by Henry H. Lyman, seconded by A. F. Winn, and resolved : 



That the members of the Montreal Branch of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario, having learned with unfeigned sorrow of the untimely 

 death of Dr. James Fletcher, President of the Parent Society, and Ento- 

 mologist and Botanist of the Dominion Experimental Farms, desire to 

 place on record their high appreciation of his eminence in his field of 

 labour, and of his lovable personalty. They feel that in his death the 

 Society and Entomological Science in Canada have sustained a great loss, 

 and desire to assure his widow and family of their sincere sympathy 

 in their great bereavement. 



That C)pies of this resolution ba forwarded to Mrs. Fletcher, to 

 the Parent Society and to the daily press. 



Nepvtia pellucidaria. Pack. — Since my notes on this species were 

 written (Can. Ent., Vol. XXXIX, p. 171) I have been permitted to 

 examine the types of Geometridss described by Dr. Herman Strecker at 

 Reading, Penn. My conjecture, that \\\<a Cleora fumosaria\^ the same 

 as this species, proves correct, and it must hereafter be listed as a 

 synonym oi pellucidaria. Pack, — Richard F. Pearsall, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



