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to offer to his widow and family their respectful sympathy in the bereave- 

 ment that they have sustained. 



The Council has also to lament the death of one of the Honorary Mem- 

 bers of the Society, Dr. William H. Ashmead, which took place on the 17th 

 of October. For nearly thirty years he was a constant and valued contributor 

 to the pages of the "Canadian Entomologist" and had attained a high 

 reputation among all students of this department of science from the 

 thoroughness of his work. He had devoted himself especially to the study 

 of the Hymenoptera and became the chief authority on the order in North 

 America. His death at the early age of 53 years is a distinct loss to science 

 and leaves a gap that it will not be easy to fill. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Tennyson D. Jarvis, 



Vice-President. 



ANNUAL EEPORT OF THE MONTREAL BRANCH. 



The 294th regular, and 35th annual meeting of the Montreal Branch 

 was held in the rooms of the Natural History Society, Drummond Street, on 

 Saturday evening, May 16th, 1908. 



Members present: Messrs. Geo. A. Moore in the Chair; Henry H. 

 Lyman, E. C. Barwick, G. Chagnon, A. E. Norris, A. F. Winn. 



The Secretary read the following report of the Council. 



During the season 1907-08 meetings have been held monthly except in 

 July and August, making ten in all, the average attendance being 7J, and 

 two meetings of the Council have been held. The papers read at the meetings 

 were as follows : — 



Annual Address of President, Geo. A. Moore. 



Hemiptera taken at St. Madeleine, Quebec, May 24, Geo. A. Moore. 



Notes on Coleoptera taken at St. Madeleine^ G. Chagnon. 



An Afternoon at Highgate Springs, Vt., A. F. Winn. 



Canadian Cerambycidae, 1907, G. Chagnon. 



Sugaring Record — August, 1907, A. F. Winn. 



Hemiperta taken at Lacolle, Quebec, July 19-31, G. A. Moore. 



Report on Boston Meeting Ent. Soc. of America, and Work on Brown- 

 tail and Gypsy Moths, Henrv H. Lvman. 



A Field of Golden-rod, A. F. Winn. 



Notes on collecting Sthenopis thule, E. Denny. 



Note on Sphinx Canadensis, E. C. Barwick. 



Variations in shade of Samia cecropia, E. Kollmar. 



On the Oriental Moth, Henry H. Lyman. 



An Account of the Annual Meeting at Guelph, Henry H. Lyman. 



Plusia precationis at Petunia blossoms, A. F. Winn. 



Further Notes on Hepialus thule, Henry H. Lyman. 



Larval habits of Pyrausta theseusalis. walk, G. Chagnon. 



An odd Home for a Micro Larva, A. F. Winn. 



Another Fortnight at Biddeford, Me., A. F. Winn. 



Notes on Hemiptera taken at Biddeford, Me., Geo. A. Moore. 



Collecting and breedinsr Notes for 1907. Henry H. Lyman. 



A few remarks on the Season's Work, E. Denny. 



