ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO 



Dr. Belhune then read " A List of the Butterflies of the Eistern Provinces of 

 Canada," which contained no less than 116 species, of which the localities and in most 

 cases the food plants and times of flight were given. The paper was commented on bj 

 Oapt. Geddes, Messrs. Fletcher, Fyles and Lyman, who contributed much interesting 

 information regarding a number of the species. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited specimens and gave an account of the remarkable habits of 

 the moth Exyra Rolandiana, the larva of which feeds upon the leaves of the pitcher 

 plant, Sarracenia purpurea. He also exhibited an interesting collection of butterflies 

 sent by Mr. Green, of British Columbia, and gave an account of a visit he made to Sud- 

 bury in May last, when, notwithstanding a snow storm that prevailed, he procured the 

 larva of PamiMJa nietacomnt, which fed on carex, and which he succeeded in rearing 

 He made some interesting remarks upon Colias elis, nasles and interior, and gave an 

 account of a rearing of Co/ins eurijt/ieme, the eggs of which he had obtained at Nepigon in. 

 Jure. When the chrysalids were beginning to show the color of the butterfly he retarded 

 their development for some weeks by placing them in a refrigerator, while emergence was 

 hastened by exposure to electric light. He also showed some specimens of Papili* 

 Bairdii and P. Oregonia received from Mr. Edwards, who had this year added yet another 

 to his laurels by proving that these very dissimilar butterflies were really dimorphic forms 

 of one species. Mr. Edwards had gone to Colorado and with great care had bred broods 

 of larvte from eggs laid by both forms and had obtained from each brood some of botk 

 kinds of the butterflies named. This, the speaker said, he considered one of the greatest 

 triumphs of this wonderful man. He had had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Edwards 

 in his own beautiful home amongst the mountains of West Virginia, where he hoped he 

 would long be spared to carry on his useful studies with his characteristic energy, perse- 

 verance and accuracy. 



Mr. Fletcher next exhibited specimens of Pamphila metacome.t in all stages, 

 egg, larva, pupa and cocoon and perfect butterfly, as well as an egg parasite, which 

 had been named by Mr. Ashmead Telenomus paviphilce, n.s. It was agreed at 

 the last annual mf^eting that each member should try to work out the life history of at 

 least one insect in time for this meeting : he had devoted his attention to P. metacomet, 

 which is as a rule rarely taken at Ottawa. Thi.s fact, however, he thinks has been due to 

 a want of knowledge as to its habits. He had previously taken the butterfly only in open 

 glades in a wood, but the larvae feed on carices growing on exposed rocks. The food 

 plant of this species as well as that of P. mystic, which he had also bred this year, was, 

 he thought, not grasses, but sedges (carex;, although in confinement they would eat 

 grasses. The eggs are laid in July and the caterpillar passes two or sometimes three 

 moults the same autumn and then hibernates in a case made by spinning three or four of 

 the leaves of the food plant together. The larva is pale green, closely lined all over with 

 broken white lines and covered with minute black piliferous tubercles. The most remark- 

 able part of the larva is the head which is ornamented diflereutly from that of any other 

 species of the genus he was acquainted with. On the front, at the apex, is a large, vel- 

 vety black area edged with white, and down either hide of the face run two white lines 

 with a dark area between them ; behind these lines the head is black. The thoracic shield 

 is ribbon-like, double, white in front, black behind. Just previous to pupation two large, 

 v/hite patches were plainly visible through the skin beneath segments 11 and 12. Wlien 

 ready to pupate the larva spins a close cocoon, similar to that oi Acronycta ohlinila, the end 

 of which is stopped up with a silvery white, flikey powder which is emitted through the 

 skin (apparently) from the two white patches mentioned. In three or four instances the 

 pupa worked its way out of the cocoons and fell to thi ground. Ic is piceous, when 

 cleaned ol the white silvery powder, slender and much elongated. The tongue case pro- 

 trudes beyond the wing cases as in Pamphila cernes, etc. The abdomen beneath is closely 

 covered with tawny bristles which are thickest at the cremastral end. The end of the 

 body is furnished with about six short blunt spikes and on each side two larger ones. A 

 moie detailed account of the stages will appear later in the Canadian Entomologist. 



The Rev. T. W. Fyles read a short paper on " Catastega aceriella-Semasia signa- 

 tana." In answer to an enquiry whether Nernalus Erichsoni, the Larch saw-fly, wa.s 



