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pleasant to us, through the privilege it affords of personal acquaintance, 

 comparison of observations, interchange of opinion, and the strengthening 

 of those bonds of sympathy which should (they do not always) unite 

 those who labor in a common cause. 



On the motion of Mr. A. R. Grote, of Buffalo, a resolution was passed 

 requesting The Canadian Entomologist to publish the President's 

 Address and the proceedings of this meeting. 



Mr. E. B. Reed, of London, Canada, associate Editor of the Can. 

 Ent., apologized for the unavoidable absence of the Vice-President, Mr. 

 Wm. Saunders, and stated that the Editor of the Can. Ent. would be 

 most happy to comply with the wishes of the Club respecting the publi- 

 cation of the proceedings of the meeting. 



Mr. A. R. Grote exhibited some insects from Georgia — Callosamia 

 angulifera, Eacles didyma, Lagoa pyxidifera, Heterocampa obliqua. In the 

 South he had found that Actios luna, Sa/iiia cccropia, Telea polyphemus 

 and Saturnia io were double-brooded, while on the contrary, Citheronia 

 regalis was only single-brooded. 



Prof. Wetherby stated that in his section, and in other parts also of 

 the North-Western States, many of the above-named moths were also 

 double-brooded. 



Miss Emily A. Smith, of the Scientific Association of Peoria, 111., sub- 

 mitted to the meeting a most interesting account of Lecaniiim acericorticis 

 Fitch, a bark-louse that had seriously damaged the Maple trees, both hard 

 and soft, in Illinois and adjoining States. The whole life history of this 

 pest had been most carefully worked out by Miss Smith, who also exhi- 

 bited a very complete set of microscopical preparations of the insect in its 

 various stages, and also of a parasitic Chalcid discovered by her. One 

 important point noted was the migration of the bark-lice on the approach 

 of the fall from the leaves to the trunk of the tree, on which, however 

 numerously they might be found together, their position was always length- 

 wise with the trunk. In the South the insect was doubtless double- 

 brooded. Dr. Fitch had briefly described the insect many years ago, but 

 Miss Smith had been enabled to work out many hitherto unknown points 

 in its history. 



Various experiments had been tried to destroy the lice, but Miss Smith 

 had found the best success in using a Babcock or Chambers Fire 



