232 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Art) contains a large series of bleached specimens of insects of various 

 orders (Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, &c.,) which were not improbably 

 collected by Abbot (Cf. some notes by Mr. McLachlan, Ent. M. Mag. x., 

 pp. 227, 228;. 



Note by Mr. Scudder. — The small volume of paintings referred to by 

 Mr. Kirby is in the library of the Boston Society of Natural History, and 

 was not mentioned by me because the less said about it the better. It 

 was picked up at a book shop, bears the date 1830, and though Double- 

 day paid seven guineas for it, it is certainly not the work of Abbot, but 

 of a very inferior copyist — some of the paintings being the merest daubs. 

 It has scarcely the least value. The notice by Duncan I had not seen, but 

 I find that it adds nothing to the facts of Abbot's life. Either I have 

 never seen the seventeenth volume of Abbot's drawings at the British 

 Museum referred to by Mr. Kirby, or, if it concerns the moths only, may 

 for that reason have taken no note of it. My memorandum of the dates 

 must have been incorrectly copied. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB 



OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



( Continued from page ig8. ) 



Thursday, Aug. 16th. — The Club reassembled at 3.30 p. rn. Papers 

 by Mr. Clarence M. Weed on " The Parasites of the honey-suckle Sphinx, 

 Hemaris diffinis, Boisd.," and on " The Hymenopterous Parasites of the 

 Strawberry Leaf-roller, Phoxopteris comptana, Frol ," were read by 

 the Secretary in his absence. Mr. H. Osborn read an interesting paper 

 on " The Food-habits of the Thripidae."' Mr. Smith gave an account of 

 the collection of Mr. D. Bruce, of Rockport, N. Y., which was chiefly 

 made in Colorado ; it is especially remarkable for the long series of speci- 

 mens of many species of Lepidoptera. Among others he has Chionobas 

 bore in great numbers from the Rocky Mountains, proving it to be distinct 

 from C. Semidea of the White Mountains ; also an immense series of 

 Colias euryiheme in all its varieties, and numbers also of many species of 

 Noctuida?. 



Friday, Aug. 17 th. — The Club met at 9 o'clock a. m. A paper was 

 read by Dr. D. S. Kellicott, on Hepialus argenteo maculatus, which he 



