226 The Ottawa Naturalist. [Jan. 



"Those whom we love truly never die. 



For death the pure life saves, 



And life all pure is love, and love can reach 



From Heaven to earth, and nobler lessons teach 



Than those by mortals read. " 



"Thank God for one dead friend, 

 With face still radiant with the light of truth. 

 Whose love comes laden with the scent of vouth 

 Through twenty years of death. " 



The following letter from Dr. S. B. Sinclair was read: — 



It is probable that the death of no one outside the teaching 

 profession would be mourned more deeply or sincerely by Cana- 

 dian teachers and more particularlv by the graduates of the 

 Ottawa Normal School, than .Dr. Fletcher. Dr. Fletcher, in 

 addition to combining in a rare degree the qualities of the gifted 

 scientist and the cultured gentlemen, was above all the Prince of 

 good companions. 



The students never lost an opportunity to express their 

 appreciation of his untiring energies in their behalf and of the 

 value of the lessons which he taught and the interest which he 

 created. 



Hundreds of teachers, when they hear the sad news, will recall 

 a time when under the convincing and inspiring force of an elo- 

 quent and masterlv address or in the never to be forgotten walk 

 through the pathless woods they caught something of the spirit 

 of this great man and ever after nature had to them a larger and a 

 Diviner meaning. 



DESCRIPTION OF PSILOCORSIS FLETCHERELLA, A 



NEW SPECIES OF MOTH OF THE FAMILY 



CECOPHORID^. 



By Arthur Gibson, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 



In the Canadian Entomologist, March, 1908, the writer 

 published, under the name of Cryptolechia quercicella Clemens, 

 a note on some larvae, which had been found feeding on Populus 

 tremuloides, in the Arboretum of the Central Experimental Farm, 

 Ottawa. On further study the moth reared from these larvae 

 proves to be an undescribed species of the genus Psilocorsis, as 

 mentioned by Mr. August Busck in the Proceedings of the United 

 States National Museum, Vol. XXXV, page 197, 1908. As a tri- 



