1905] Meeting of the Entomological Branch. 201 



ability of markings in this species. A bottle containing- living 

 specimens of small ground beetles which he had collected in the 

 autumn and had kept alive through the winter was also exhibited. 



Dr. Fletcher showed specimens of two imported cockroaches, 

 Panchlora viridis, a beautiful apple-green species, which had been 

 found at several places in Canada during the past season. Speci- 

 mens had been taken by Mr. C. Stevenson, in Montreal, by Mr. 

 Baldwin in Ottawa, by Miss Dorothy Coates in Winnipeg, and by 

 Mr. J. W. Cockle at Kalso, B.C. The species is a native of the 

 West Indies, and had, probably, in all instances, been imported 

 in bunches of bananas. Another large species found by Mr. C. 

 Stevenson, in Montreal, Periplaneta atcstralasice, has also lately 

 turned -up in numbers in Philadelphia. An extract was read from 

 a letter by Dr. Henry Skinner, just received, in which he quotes 

 from a correspondent, as follows : " I had a lot of living insects 

 sent me yesterday. They are in the greenhouse of one of the 

 members of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and are de- 

 vouring everything from an orchid to an overcoat." Some 

 remarkable oak galls from California gave an opportunity for 

 speaking of the work of these insects. Specimens of the Brown- 

 tail moth from Massachusetts were shown in all stages of the 

 insect. A single specimen of this moth was taken in St. John, 

 N.B., in 1902, by Mr. W. Mcintosh, but no further occurrence in 

 Canada has been reported. It is now causing great concern by 

 its rapid increase in Massachusetts. 



Mr. Arthur Gibson showed specimens and spoke on the cosmo- 

 politan occurrence of the granary weevils. The best remedies tor 

 preventing injury and destroying the beetles in infested grain were 

 described. The Columbine borer {Papaipenia pnrpurifascid) in all 

 stages was shown, and an account given of injury done by the 

 larvae in beds of columbine at the Experimental Farm. Some 

 well-made inflates of the larvae of some sphinx moths were also 

 shown by Mr. Gibson and were much admired by all present. 



The Chairman drew the attention of the members to the 

 beautiful report by Prof. E. P. Felt, State Entomologist of New 

 York, recently issued on the Mosquitoes or Culicidae of New York 

 State. ..^ ^.,. . 



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