1904] Meetings of entomological Branch. 57 



proved productive to all naturalists who have attended the Club 

 excursions, and Mr. Young' during two summers spent there has 

 made extensive collections. Fourteen species of the rarer moths 

 were shown. Mr. Metcalfe exhibited a neatly mounted collection 

 of flies, mostly small species, consisting of about 500 specimens, 

 which he presented to Dr. Fletcher, for the museum of the 

 Experimental Farm, to the collections in which it will be a valu- 

 able addition. Mr. Harringtoh showed two large pupal cases, 

 apparently of a Hepialus, which he had taken from an old maple 

 tree on the Aylmer road. He also exhibited two boxes of insects 

 in various orders taken during 1903, and containing several species 

 as yet undetermined. Dr. Fletcher exhibited a female Mantis 

 Carolina which he had kept living for some time and whose 

 rapacious habits he graphically described. Mr. Harrington re- 

 ferred to a larger species, equally voracious, which he had fre- 

 quently observed in Japan. Mr. Baldwin showed some galls from 

 willows and raspberry. 



Meeting No. 13. — Held at Mr. Gibson's on February loth, 

 1904 ; eight present. Mr. Baldwin showed some recently collected 

 cocoons of moths, also of the sawfly Trichiosoma triangulu^n^ and 

 of spiders. Mr. Metcalfe submitted a list of 43 species of hemip- 

 tera, representing 34 genera, taken at Brockville, Aug. -Nov., 

 1903. Mr. MacLaughlin stated that, while unable to do any col- 

 lecting, it appeared to him that there was an unusual scarcity of 

 dragonflies last year, due probably to the excessively dry spring. 

 Dr. Fletcher referred to the immense swarms of a species of 

 Gomphus which had appeared in Ottawa some years ago, and 

 which had not since been observed in any special abundance. He 

 also spoke of the myriads of dragonflies seen by him last summer 

 upon the North-west prairies, chiefly Diplax rubicundula and D. 

 costifera. 



Mr. Harrington exhibited a case of Ottawa Buprestid^e, 

 containing about 40 species of these destructive beetles, and read 

 a paper giving the dates of appearance and notes on the habits of 

 the various species ; regarding the majority of which much is to 

 be learned. .Dr. Fletcher had found Buprestis langii abundant in 

 the upper country of Alberta and British Columbia upon the 



