ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



still at work, he stated that it was still operating in the Province of Quebec, but in 

 »reatly reduced numbers. A tree here and there had been stripped this summer ; in 

 some cases part of the tree only had been affected. The insects were now attacking 

 young trees — those from about ten to twenty or more, feet in height. They seemed on their 

 first arrival to pass by these, he supposed because the foliage of the more mature trees was 

 more palatable to them. Some trees near Quebec that had been badly attacked and that 

 he once thought would die, seemed to have made a struggle for life and had sent out 

 numbers of small twigs on the stems and main branches, so as to present a very scrubby 

 appearance. He had not been able to visit the large swamps in the Townships, but he 

 believed the state of things there to be such as he had described in the society's Reports. 

 He had been surprised to find in parts of the Gomin swamp affected by drainage numbers 

 of small tamaracks from six inches to several feet high, where a few years ago none were 

 to be seen. Mr. Harrington stated that in Cape Breton also he found young tamaracks 

 growing up. 



Mr. Fyles next gave an account of a s-range food for the larva; of Pi/ralis fariaalis. 

 He said that in the society's Report for 1893, page 42, he gave a description of a Litho- 

 colletis larva that he found feeding in bli.sters on the leaves of the white hazel, and which 

 he hoped to rear. When full fed the larva spun a cocoon inside the blister, but his liofie 

 of obtaining the perfect insect was defeated in a strange manner. One the 3rd of Mirch 

 he examined the glass jar in which he had stored the blistered nut leaves, and over which 

 he had tied a muslin cover. To his great surprise he found a number of Pyralid larva; 

 feeding upon the leaves. He described them as follows : Length, when extended, nine- 

 tenths of an icch ; head and prothoracic and ari.al plates, nut brown; the rest of the 

 body, lead color : dorsal line, black. The appearance of the larva; seemed familiar to 

 him, but he let them be. They ate up the nut leaves, leaving only a tangle of the ribs 

 and veins. In due time they produced a number of tine specimens of the moth J'yralis 

 farinall&, Linn. 



^Ir. Fyles stated that he wished to rectify a mistake. In the list of captures on 

 pajje 41 of the annual Report for 1893 occurs the name Anisota senatoria^; it .should be 

 Anisoia virginien.sis, Drury. 



Mr. Harrington exhibited a collection of beetles from Japan, many of which were 

 very beautiful and remarkable. 



Mr. Lyman showed a box of specimens collected by Mr. Bean, at Laggan, AU)erta, 

 among which was a series of the moth NemeophUa petrosa. An excellent photograph of 

 these had Vjeen made, and it was resolved, on motion of Mr. Fletcher, seconded by Dr. 

 Bethune, that Mr. Lyman be requested to have .h plate prepared for publication in the 

 Canadlati Entomologist. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a small collection of diurnals which had been sent down for 

 identification by Mr A. W. Hanham, of Winnipeg. Attention was drawn to specimens 

 of 1 luimellcns Garita, this being probably the most eastern record ; Lycceiui MeAissa, 

 Thccla Acadica and three specimens of TliAcla slrigosa, all of which showed the large 

 fulvous spots similar to the specimen figured by Boisduval and Leconte as T. Liparops. 

 This form was very rare at Ottawa, thn speaker having taken only two speciiuens in many 

 years. 



While on his feet Mr. Fletcher said he wished to mention that a j^ood deal of work 

 had been done during the past season in collecting insects in distant places in Canada 



Mr. A. P. Low, of the Geological Survey, had made a collection of diurnal Lepi'lop- 

 tera and Coleoptera in his jourriev acros-s Labrador, specimens of PijrQUti centaureoiy 

 ChionohdK julttt and Cofias Srudderii were exhibited. Dr. G. M. Dawson and Mr. J. 

 McEvoy had collected in die mountains about Ashcroft, B.C. ; Messrs. C de B. Green 

 and Edmund Reynolds had made larjje and valuabe collections of Lepidoptera in the 

 mountains at Osoyoos, B.C., just north of the bonndnry of Washington State. S|)eci- 

 mens wt re exhibited of Pajnlio Daiinns, Oregonia, Rufulus var Arizonensis^ Tiirn^iSy 

 Satyrus (Ktiis, S. Ariane, Lyrt^na sagittigera, L. llpAeroriKa, Picris BecliXrii, Colias Emilia, 

 Anthocaris Sara, A. cref/sa, 'Jhfcla dunietorum., Pterogon Clarkim and many other 



