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Two new members have been added to our roll, viz., Messrs. Lachlan Gibb and J. W. 

 Oushing, but three of our old members have resigned owing to continued absence from 

 the city, and the death of our esteemed vice-president, Mr. F. B. Caulfield, has caused a 

 great gap in our ranks which it will be difficult to fill. He was one of the founders of 

 this Branch, and has taken the greatest interest in its welfare through all its vicissitudes 

 during the past nineteen years, At our meetings he has read over forty original papers, 

 and being an enthusiastic and pains-taking entomologist, the loss to the Branch is a very 

 heavy one. 



The Council would again urge the members to do all in their power to increase the 

 interest in our meetings by getting as many new members as possible, and by bringing to 

 the meetings specimens and notes on insects. 



A large amount of work might easily be done during the coming summer on the 

 neglected orders, Neuroptera, Hemiptera and Diptera, and we would suggest that each 

 member should study at least one order besides his specialty and thus aid in increasing 

 our knowledge of some of the many very common species of which at present we know 

 little or nothing. 



The report of the treasurer shews a balance on hand of $17.08. 



Submitted on behalf of the Council, 



H. H. Lyman, President. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, H. H. Lyman ; 

 Vice-President, W. C. Adams ; Secretary-Treasurer, A. F. Winn ; Council, J. F. Hausen, 

 Ohas. Jackson. 



After the reading of the foregoing reports was completed Mr. Harrington gave an 

 interesting account of a visit which he and Mr. Fletcher had made to Sudbury this 

 summer, and exhibited some rare and remarkable specimens that they had found in that 

 locality. 



Mr, Fletcher gave an entertaining description of a trip to Nepigon, north of Lake 

 Superior, in quest of eggs of the butterfly, Chionobas Macoanii. JS^o eggs of that species 

 were obtained, but many interesting observations were made. Eggs of N'emeophila 

 selwynu were secured, and the larvte bred from them were described. Grapta fauaus 

 was bred from larvte found on Abius viridis, Salix discolor and Betula papyrifera, and an 

 undesciibed parasite was also reared. Grapta prognpj was also reared from larvte on 

 Betida pcqyijrifera. Colias interior was mentioned, and the food plant was stated to be 

 willow (from the observations of Mr. T. E. Bean in the Rocky Mountains). Mr. 

 Fletcher was of the opinion that it was also Vacciniu/n. Specimens of two western 

 species of A.rgynnis, A. cipris and A. electa were taken at Nepigon, and the occurrence 

 there commented on. Lijctena lucia was taken and an addition made to its food plants 

 in the flowers and seeds of Acer spicatum. Carlerocephalus mandan is not uncommon at 

 Nepigon in roadways running through low woodlands. Eggs had been secured on grasses 

 and several larvae were being bred. Nisoniades icelus, common at Nepigon, was being 

 bred from eggs laid on the upper side of the leaves of Salix cor data. The larvie were 

 found to exhibit different temperaments, one particular specimen being described as " very 

 bad tempered." Some beetles had been collected, and the oviposition o^ Myodites zeschii 

 in the unopened flowers of Solidago canadensis was described. An interesting Mordella 

 had been taken on a white fungus growing on an old wharf, but the species did not seem 

 to answer to any of those in the available literature. Species of Donacia, Leptura and 

 some Carabidie had been collected. Trirhabda convergens had been found abundantly on 

 asters and solidagos. Of Hymenoptera many interesting species had been secured, Abia 

 kennicottii amongst them, and several spacimens of Trichiosoma trianyulum. 



The meeting adiourned at 10 p.m. 



