220 The Ottawa Naturalist. [March 



was in finding" enough specimens for the whole class to examine 

 at once. 



Mr. Arthur Gibson read a paper describing the life-history o^ 

 Eiipithecia interruptofasciata, a small geometrid moth which he 

 had reared from larvae found on J luiipems communis by Mr. W. 

 Metcalfe, at Hull, Que. Specimens were e.Khibited. 



Mr. W. Metcalfe described the finding of 42 specimens of Pa- 

 chyta riigipennis which he had taken upon a dead pine tree on 

 May 29 last. The females were ovipositing and every one of 

 these had about half a dozen males in attendance. This is an ex- 

 tremely rare insect and had never previously be m recorded from 

 Ottawa A few days afterwards Mr. Metcalfe revisited the tree 

 but could not find a single specimen. 



Mr. Jos. Keele gave a most interesting account of an expe- 

 dition made by him during the past season along the Mayo Lake 

 and in the valley of the Mayo River, Yukon Territory, describing 

 the animals and fishes there observed. Among the insects 

 brought back by Mr. Keele was a beautiful specimen of Papilio 

 niachaon, var. aliaska, and a rubbed but undoubted specimen of 

 Eurymus hoothiiy which answered exactly to a figure of the species 

 published by Mr. H. J. Elwe^, in the Transactions of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London, part III, 1903. 



Mr. C. H. Young, exhibited a box of exquisitively mounted 

 geometers taken during the p ist summer at Mcach Lake, Que. 



Mr, Andrew Halkett showed specimens of the pupae of the 

 Tomato Sphinx and c.ists of som^ dragonfly nymphs, including 

 Didymops transversa. 



Mr J. W. B.ildwln referred to insects imported with bananas 

 and showed specimens of cockroaches thus brought to Ottawa. 



Mr. Norman Criddle, of Aweme, Man. was present and 

 joined in the discussions. 



Meeting No. 21 was held at the residence of Mr. W. Simpson 

 on the i6ih Feb., 1905, Mr. Simpson in the chair. The first half 

 hour was pleasantly spent examining the chairman's large collec- 

 tion of local coleoptera, which comprises many rare species. Mr. 

 Simpson, while the cases were being examined and passed around, 



