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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 101 



Your committee recommend that this report be printed and a copy 

 sent to each member of the Club, and that it be brought up for discussion 

 at the next annual session of the Club. C. V. Riley, 



August 2i, 1878. A. G. Wetherby, 



E. Baynes Reed. 



The report was unanimously adopted. 



The Club then proceeded to the election of officers. 



On motion, duly carried, the following gentlemen were re-elected 

 officers for the ensuing year : 



Mr. J. A. Lintner, Albany, N. Y. - - President. 



Mr. Wm. Saunders, London, Ont. - Vice-do. 



Mr. B. Pickman Mann, Cambridge, Mass. - Secretary. 



The President returned thanks for the honor conferred upon him. He 

 then addressed the Club, giving a most interesting description of the suc- 

 cess that had attended his efforts and those of his co-laborers in collecting 

 Noctuidae during the season of 1877, by the means known as "sugaring." 

 By reference to a list given on page 120 of his " Entomological Contri- 

 butions," No. 4, it would be seen that there had been captured eighty-six 

 species, not one of which had hitherto been taken in the Albany district. 

 Nearly all of these had been found in the famous Center locality. He 

 most graphically described his manner of working by this method, and 

 strongly recommended its trial to all the members. 



Prof. Wetherby made some remarks on this attractive means of cap- 

 ture, which was continually bringing under the notice of Entomologists 

 specimens hitherto unknown or considered as most rare. It was a question 

 if there were any species which are in reality rare, their seeming rarity 

 resulting from our not knowing when, where and how to collect them. 



Miss Smith described a collecting bottle of her own device, by which, 

 on touching a spring, the cover flew back and the insects could be readily 

 caught in the receptacle. Its chief recommendation was that it could be 

 managed by one hand, leaving the other at liberty for holding the lantern. 



Mr. Reed advocated the fastening of the lantern to the waist by a 

 belt, thus leaving the hands at greater freedom to use the bottles and 

 boxes. 



The President said he had found that in using the ordinary bulls-eye 

 lantern the fingers could be thrust through the wire handle in such a man- 

 ner that their ends and the thumb were free for use in withdrawing, hold- 



