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entomological work is done. So marked was the preference for willow, 

 that I find written on the margin of my Insects Injurious to Vegetation, 

 ' chiefly willow, sometimes poplar.' I have always raised my Turnus 

 larv» on willow." And Miss Soule quotes from a letter from Miss I. M. 

 Eliot, of New York, ** with whom my summer work is done," and to 

 whom she had mentioned the subject : " I wish Mr. Edwards could have 

 seen the willow where we first found Turnus ! " 



Also, Wm. Bentenmiiller, of New York, writes : "I have frequently 

 found the larva of Turnus feeding on willow." 



It is therefore settled beyond all question that willow is one of the 

 food plants, though I do not learn that it is known to many collectors. 

 Mr. Scudder quoted willow in his " Butterflies," but from a statement 

 made by Mr. Gosse in 1845. ^^^^ ^^ ^ have before said, my larvae at 

 Coalburgh died before they would eat willow, and the plant was offered 

 them repeatedly. As the same thing happened with me when I gave spice 

 wood and sassafras to larvae of P. Aj'ax, though in Tenn. Mr. Aaron says 

 these larvae certainly will eat both these plants, I conclude that larval 

 habits as to food may differ decidedly in different localities. 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1885. 

 Owing to unforseen circumstances, the distribution of the Annual 

 Government Raport for 1885 has been unavoidably delayed. We are 

 glad to state, however, that they have at last been received and forwarded 

 to those members entitled to receive them. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 

 The Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario will be 

 held in the Society's Rooms, London, Ontario, on Wednesday, October 

 20, 1886, at 7.30 p.m. Members are invited to prepare papers to be read, 

 and to send them to the Sec.-Treas., Mr. E. B. Reed, if they are unable to 

 attend. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 Dear Sir : I notice in my article two serious errors that I overlooked 

 in the proof, one clerical and the other typographical : Page 112, nth 

 line from bottom, read dorsal instead of ventral; page 115, 13th line 

 from top, read beak instead of back. 



John Hamilton, Allegheny, Pa. 



