ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MONTREAL BRANCH OF THE 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The council beg to submit the following report of the work of the Branch during the 

 session of 1892-93. 



Eight monthly meetings have been held and the following papers have been read : 



Notes on Zaraea Americana, Rev. T. W. Fyles. 



A Trip to Mt. Washington, H. H. Lyman. 



Notes on the Lepidoptera of Cap a L'aigle P. Q , A. F. Winn. 



Preparatory Stages of Anisota Pellucida, H, H. Lyman. 



Life History of Nemeophila Scudderii, H. H. Lyman. 



Notes on Taxonus Dubitans and T. Nigrosoma, J. G. Jack, 



Notes on Collecting Sesiidie in the London (England) District, L. Gibb. 



List of Lepidoptera collected by Dr. Bell in the Country North of Lake Huron, 

 H. H. Lyman. 



We have, since our last annual meeting, lost another of our members who was an 

 enthusiastic worker in the study of insects, by the death of Mr. J. W. Gushing. 



Your council regret that the attendance at the meetings during the past season has 

 not been as good as in former years, and would urge on the members the necessity of 

 doing all in their power to increase the interest of the meetings and to endeavor to add to 

 our roll as many new names as possible. 



The report of the Treasurer shows a balance at our credit of $19.24. 



Submitted on behalf of the council. 



(Signed) H. H. Lyman, 



President. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : 



President, H. H. Lyman ; Vice-President, L. Gibb ; Sec.-Tres., A. F. Winn ; Council : 

 J. F. Hausen, H. B. Gushing. 



Regret was expressed that no member had been able to represent the Society at the 

 annual meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists held at Madison, Wisconsin, 

 in August. (Through the kindness of Mr. Howard, a full account of the proceedings 

 has been received and will be found in subsequent pages of this report.) At the 

 meeting of the Entomological Club of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, held at the same place, Mr. Lyman, of Montreal, one of our members, was 

 present, and read a paper on Hepialus Thule. 



A paper entitled "Notes and Queries," by the Rev. Dr. Holland, of Pittsburg, was 

 read by Dr. Bethune ; the writer referred especially to the occurence of Erehus odoray 

 Papilio crespJiontes and Plulenor and other insects. In the discussion that followed, it 

 was stated by Messrs. Motfat and Saunders that they found P. cresphontes in abundance 

 about London, and also its larvae. Dr. Bethune reported having taken it at Roach's Point, 

 Lake Simcoe, on the 28th of August last. He mentioned also the capture at Port Hope, 

 on the 15th of October, of a male specimen of Colias Eurytheme, the hrst that he had 

 seen in that neighborhood. Fapilio philenor had formerly been taken near Toronto and 

 Hamilton, but not of late years ; its larvoe had been found at Ridge way feeding upon 

 Wild Ginger, Asarnm Canadense. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited an illustration of a gall on Negundo aceroides made by a moth, 

 and described its peculiarities ; also specimens of Silpha Htuherosa from Saskatoon. 

 Some larvfe were recently sent him from there, which were feeding upon Monolepis 

 chenopodioides, an abundant plant in the prairie region ; from these he bred the beetle, S 

 bituhirosa. 



