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writer. It is some years since this butterfly has been taken in 

 the Ottawa district. Dr. Fletcher has collected it once or twice 

 previously at the Mer Bleue, which is probably the most southern 

 locality known for this insect. All the specimens which have 

 been taken here have the markings slightly suffused on both 

 the upper and lower surfaces. 



In a wood near the Mer Bleue, Mr. Lemieux found a fine 

 specimen of the Spotted Salamander, Amblystoma punctatum, 

 and also some specimens of Plethodon erythronotus and Plethodon 

 erythronotus cinereus. These latter salamanders occur commonly 

 in the Ottawa district. 



The small, curious caterpillars of the plume moth, Ptero- 

 phorus eupatorii, were found in numbers feeding on the leaves 

 of Joe Pye Weed, Eupatorium purptireum, and in some pasture 

 fields the Hard-hack, Spircea tomentosa, was seen to be badly 

 infested by the galls of a cecidomyid. Many of these plants 

 were entirely covered by these galls. Since, the small fly has 

 been reared and specimens have been determined by Dr. E. P. 

 Felt, of Albany, N.Y., as Rhabdophaga salicifolia, a species which 

 has been found abundant in Massachusetts and New York, on 

 the above plant and also on Spircea salicifolia. 



A. G. 



MEETINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL BRANCH. 



Meeting held at the residence of Mr. Harrington, 13th 

 February, 1908. Present, Messrs. Fletcher, Letourneau, Halkett, 

 Nelles, Gibson, Young, Baldwin, and Mr. Harrington, in the Chair. 



Mr. Letourneau showed a perfect nest of Etimenes glohu- 

 losus, with the insect which had emerged from it during the 

 past summer. The specimen had been found on the twig of a 

 bush on the Experimental Farm. 



Dr. Fletcher showed a fresh supply of Boreus calijornicus 

 which had just come to hand in a Hving state from^Mr. J. W. 

 Cockle, of Kaslo, B.C. He also spoke of some most interesting 

 observations by Mr. Cockle upon the mating of these insects. 

 Specimens apparently of another species had been collected 

 by Mr. N. B. Sanson, in the Rocky Mountain Park, Banff, Alta. 

 Other interesting specimens shown were: a specimen of the 

 remarkable Snow fly, Chionea valga, taken at Banff by Mr. 

 Sanson; the strange heteropterous bug, Emesa longipes, which 

 was one of five specimens taken by Mr. W. A. Dent, at Sarnia, 

 Ont. ; some living larvae of the Brown-tail Moth in their winter 

 web, also a fine series showing inflates of the full grown larvae 

 and the perfect moths. Collections of insects made by Mr. D. 



