ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



rarities. Mr. Fletcher was glad to be able to announce that Mr. Green intended next 

 year to collect as a business. His address for the present is Osoyoos, B.C., and intending 

 purchasers would do well to correspond with him at once. Mr. Green and Mr. Reynolds 

 had both added new species this year to the Canadian list. At Calgary Mr. C. Wolley- 

 Dod had done good work in collecting and providing Mr. W. H. Edwards with eggs of 

 Chionobas Alberta, the larvte from which had been successfully taken through all their 

 stages. At Olds, 40 miles from Calgary, Mr. T. JST. Willing had also done good work, 

 and had taken, among other rarities, Erebia discoidalis and Argynnis Edwardsii. Prof. 

 John Macoun had this year collected at Crane lake, in the same district, and had added 

 Ili'pparchia Ridingsii to the Canadian list. In Alaska collections of insects had been 

 made by Messrs Otto Klotz and W. Ogilvey, of the Boundary Survey, as well as by some 

 of the other mtmbers of the party This material was chiefly diptera, coleoptera and 

 hymenoptera. It had not as yet been worked up. In the Rocky Mountains Mr. T. E. 

 Bean continued his studies. Through his kindness eggs had been received by the speaker 

 of Colias Elis, of which bred specimens of the larv;^ and imago were exhibited, Colias 

 naates and other rare species. Some beautifully blown larv;e prepared by Mr. Bean were 

 .shown. Mr. W. Mclnnes and Mr. J. 0. Guillim, of the Geological Survey, had collected 

 east of Port Arthur, the latter gentleman taking Euj)toieta Claudia at Wabigoon, on the 

 C P. Ry. In Manitoba collections had been made by Mr. Hanham at Winnipeg, and a 

 very remarkable collection by Mr. E F. Heath, near Oartwright, Man., some most sur- 

 prising captures had been made as Vanessa Californica, Natlialis lole, and a Thecla which 

 is probably undescribed. Mr. Heath has also sent the cocoons of some splendid speci- 

 mens of Samia Columbia which were exhibited, and compared with specimens found at 

 Ottawa on tamarack. The northwestern food of this species is Ehvagnus argentea, and 

 the moths are always distinguishable by their much redder hue. 



Mr. Harrington gave some interesting " Notes on Canadian Coleoptera," relating 

 how he had obtained a hair snake from a Coccinella, and found the krvre of a beetle, 

 Brachyacantim Jirsina, feeding upon plant lice in an ant's nest, with other noteworthy 

 matters, which will be found detailed in his paper. 



The meeting adjourned at G o'clock p.m. 



EVENING SESSION. 



In the evening the society held a public meeting in its rooms in Victoria Hall, at 

 which there .>"as a largely increased attendance of members, between thirty and forty 

 being present. Besides those already mentioned at the afternoon meeting, the following 

 were noticed : Messrs. R W. Rennie, J. G. Wilson, J. H Bowman, Dr. S. Woolverton, 

 J. H. Pearce, W. T. McOlement, W. Scarrow, etc. 



The chair was taken by the President, Mr. Harrington, at '8 o'clock. After apolo- 

 gizing for the absence of Mr. Kihiian and Mr. Kvans, the Chairman called upon the 

 Secretary to read the 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario beg to present the following 

 report of their proceedings during the past year : 



They are happy to congratulate the members of the society upon the steady increase 

 in numbers which continues to take place, and the hearty interest that is maintained in 

 the various departments of work. 



The twenty-fourth annual report on Economic and General Entomology was pre- 

 sented to the Minister of Agriculture in November last, and was printed and distributed 

 at the beginning of January. It consisted of one hundred and eleven pages, a much larger 

 number than usual, and was illustrated with thirty-nine wood cuts and a portrait of the 

 Editor, who was for several years President of the society. Among the more important 

 and interesting' papers may be mentioned Mr. Fletcher's account of " The Injurious 



