374 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Oct. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



Th'e ordinary moDthly meeting of the Society was held in the 

 Council-room of the Canadian Institute on Tuesday, Dec. 8th, at 

 3 p.m. Nearly all themembers from Toronto and the vicinity were 

 present. In the absence of Prof. Croft and Mr. Saunders, Dr. 

 Morris was called to the chair, and Mr. Hubbert appointed secretary 

 pro tern. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



Communications were received from Prof. Hincks, expressing 

 regret at his inability to attend from indisposition ; from F 

 Grant, Esq., and li. V. Rogers, Esq., on business connected with 

 the Society. 



Rev. H. P. Hope, and Rice Lewis, Esq., Toronto, and James 

 Wright, Esq., Vienna, C. W., were proposed as suitable persons 

 to become members. 



The following donations were acknowledged, and the thanks of 

 the Society voted to the donors : 



From Prof. Croft. 



A cabinet of seven drawers. 



To the Library^ from the Smithsonian Institution. 



Monograph of the Diptera of North America, by H. Low. Part I. 



From the author, W. Saunders, Esq., London, C. W. 



(1.) Monograph of the Arctiades of Canada. 20 copies. 



(2.) Description often new species of Arctia. 



(3 ) " On some hitherto undescribed Lepidopterous Larv£e." 



From A. S. Packard, Esq., Jun., Cambridge, Mass., through Principal 



Dawson. 



Photographs of the following undescribed bombjces : 



Crambida pallida, Callimorpha vesta, Callochlora chlorata, Cyrtosia 



albipunctata, male and female, Entrutricudes testacea, Cyrtosia gemi- 



nata, Cilodasys cinereafrons, Laphodonta ferruginea, Gluphisia trilineata, 



male and female, Platyarma furcilla, Cilodasys biguttala, Edaplenyx 



bilineata. 



From James Hubbert, Esq., B.A. 



Popular Entomology, by Maria E. Catlow. 



British Butterflies, by W. S, Coleman. 



To the Cabinet, from Prof. Croft. 

 48 specimens, including 27 species of Chinese Lepidoptera. 

 164 specimens, including 61 species of Coleoptera. 



From B. R. Morris, Esq., B.A., M.D. 

 47 specimens, including 16 species of Coleoptera. 



