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cabinet drawers, among others his collection of Japanese insects 

 which contained some specimens of remarkable beauty. He 

 described the habits of a large wasp, Vespa mandarina, and spoke 

 of his visit to Japan some years ago, giving a most interesting 

 sketch of the history of the capture of some of the specimens 

 shown in the cases. J. F. 



Meeting held on Thursday evening, 12th March, at the 

 residence of Mr. Andrew Halkett, besides whom there were 

 present, Dr. Fletcher and Messrs. Harrington, Gibson, Young, 

 Baldwin, Metcalfe, Letourneau.and Newman. 



Mr. Baldwin showed a box containing lix'ing larvae in the 

 cocoons and a few moths of the Wax Moth, Galleria cerealella; 

 also a miscellaneous collection of moths captured at Ottawa. 



Mr. Gibson exhibited a box containing moths of the genus 

 Homoptera, among which was a specimen of a new species to 

 be described soon by Dr. J. B. Smith as H. helata. This was 

 taken bv Mr. Baldwin, and is the first record of the moth from 

 the Ottaw^a district. In the same box also was a specimen of 

 the butterfly, Pamphila palcemon, taken at Carlsbad Springs. 



Mr. Metcalfe showed specimens of two small moths showing 

 secondarv sexual characters, and a water Hemipteron. 



Mr. Harrington exhibited, among other specimens, a series 

 of cocoons of various insects and spiders, and caddis-fly larva 

 cases; also a series of Buprestian beetles of the genus Chalco- 

 phora from different lands. 



Mr. Letourneau produced a box containing a number of 

 different kinds of caterpillars nicely inflated. Among these 

 were several specimens of the Silver-spotted Skipper, the 

 Zebra caterpillar, the Hedgehog caterpillar and the Fall webworm. 



Dr. Fletcher showed two enormous galls from California, 

 with a few specimens of the makers, Andricus caUf amicus , 

 and read some interesting paragraphs from Miss Evelyn Groes- 

 beeck Mitchell's recent -work entitled: "Mosquito Life." Dr. 

 Fletcher spoke in the highest terms of this work and of the 

 convenient arrangement of the facts for reference. 



Mr. Young exhibited two artistic cases of Lepidoptera, one 

 illustrating the life history of the Spotted Halisidota, Halisidota 

 maculata, the larvae being on their food plant, the willow; and 

 the other case, specimens of the larvae and imagoes of the Milk^ 

 weed Moth, Euchaeiias egle, on their food plant, the milk-weed. 



The recently issued Annual Report of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario was laid on the table. Dr. Fletcher drew 

 attention to some of the more interesting local captures which 

 had been recorded in the Entomological Record. A. H. 



