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pot if possible, and transfer the young caterpillars to it, keeping the whole covered with 

 gauze ; a small plant may be kept under a glass lamp chimney with gauze pasted over 

 the top ; the larvas will wander about if the plant is not the usual food-plant of the species, 

 but they can usually be got to eat an allied plant of the same botanical genus. When 

 the working table is covered with twenty or thirty breeding jars it is well to have a con- 

 spicuous coloured label for those that require frequent or regular attention. Bags for 

 enclosing larvae feeding on plants out-of-doors should be very neatly made, in order that 

 there may be no corners for the insects to hide in. It is very important that the breeding- 

 jars or cages should be kept "scrupulously clean. Among the butterflies he saw at Coal- 

 burgh there may be especially mentioned Argynnis Diana, which was first found in the 

 mountains near by ; Argynnis Gyhele, remarkable for the large size of the specimens ; 

 Papilio Philenor, Debis Fortlandia, of which there are two broods in the year, etc. Single 

 Zinnias were found to be most attractive to butterflies of all kinds, and should be freely 

 planted in the collector's garden. 



The next paper on the list was read by the Rev. T. W. Fyles on JVematus Erichsonii, 

 the larch saw-fly, which has become so excessively destructive in the lower Province 

 during the last few years. 



The meeting adjourned at 10.45 p.m. 



THURSDAY MORNING. 



The Society met again in their rooms at 10.15 a.m. An interesting letter was read 

 by Mr. Fletcher from Mr. Edmund Baynes Reid, who is now in charge of the Government 

 Meteorological Station at Esquimalt, British Columbia. 



Capt. Geddes read a paper on his recent visit to Germany and the entomologists whom 

 he had met there. 



Mr. Harrington described a method of packing beetles and other insects for transport- 

 ation in rolls of paper, which he had found very simple and effective. Mr. Fletcher 

 mentioned the capture at Ottawa'of the rare Southern moth, Erebus odora. Mr. Fyles 

 read a paper on the larvse of Gelechia gallm-diplopappi and a parasite which he had pro- 

 cured from it, and exhibited coloured drawings in illustration. The paper will be published 

 in the Canadian Entomologist. Mr. Harrington said that the parasite was evidently, as 

 Mr. Fyles said, a Bracon, but that the genus was a difficult one, and it was hard to say 

 whether it was a new species or not. 



Capt. Geddes exhibited a specimen of Melitcea Carlota taken at Scarborough, near 

 Toronto. Mr. Fletcher exhibited a specimen of Pyrgus centaiireoi, taken at Wabigon tank 

 on the Canadian Pacific Railway, by Mr. W. Mclnnes, of the Geological survey, and one 

 of P. ccespitalis, .which resembles it very closely, from British Columbia, where it 

 is not uncommon. 



Mr. Moflfatt read a letter from Miss Emily Morton, of Newburgh, N.Y., in which 

 she described her experiences in rearing hybrids of the large Emperor moths, some of 

 which remained for twenty-three months in their cocoons, and related her chief captures 

 during the season, especially referring to her success in collecting at willow catkins 

 last April. 



Mr. Moffatt also read his paper on the results of his examination under the micro- 

 scope of an unexpanded wing of Callosamia p)romethea. 



Mr. Fletcher drew the attention of the meeting to specimens which he exhibited of 

 (1) Argytes longulus, Lee, a rare Sylphid taken on Vancouver Island by Prof. John 

 Macoun in 1887 ; (2) Entomoscelis adonides, a showy red and black chrysomelid which 

 has occurred as a pest to turnips and cabbages in the Northwest territories during the 

 past season ; {?>) Acronycta funerali^, bred from white birch at Ottawa ; (4) Gortyna cata- 

 phracta, which is a troublesome pest in gardens, boring into the stems of tomatoes, lilies, 

 and raspberries ; and a single specimen which had entered the stem of a grass, Elymus 

 Canadensis; (5) Myrmeleon abdominalis, bred from larvae collected near Indianapolis, 

 Indiana, and exhibited at the last annual meeting. 



The meeting, which was throughout very enjoyable and successful, then adjourned. 



