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Thursday, August nth. — Club met pursuant to adjournment, iS 

 persons present, Prof. Comstock in the chair. 



Mr. Saunders of ( >tta\va gave a brief review of what had been done 

 recently in the way of establishing Experiment Stations in Canada, at 

 which Entomology in its relations to Agriculture formed one of the sub- 

 jects of Experiment. Five Stations are proposed — a central station at 

 Ottawa, a 2nd in the Maritime Provinces, a 3rd in Manitoba, a 4th in 

 the N. W. Territory and the 5th in British Columbia. At the Central 

 Station an Entomologist — Mr. Fletcher— has been appointed, and a col- 

 lection of Insects of all the sections will be formed there. It is intended 

 also that Bulletins be issued several times in the course of the year to 

 interest the public in the work and demonstrate its general utility. He 

 i ad been travelling ; bout a great deal during the past year and had done 

 little Fntomological work ; but he had noticed this Spring near Ottawa 

 the larva of Vanessa antiopa in immense numbers, stripping willows. It 

 is not usually common with them. In Nova Scotia he saw Satyrus alope 

 and nephele in great numbers, with all sorts of intergrades between. He 

 also found the potato beetle there, which appears in this section for the 

 first lime. The growers there follow the old fashioned plan of knocking 

 them into a pan with a stick. 



Dr Morris stated that Criocerus asparaga had reached them at 

 Baltimore and proved very destructive. 



Mr. Saunders said it was not yet found in Canada. 



Prof. Comstock said he had found it as far West as Geneva, N. Y. 

 The insect seems to have started from Long Island. 



Prof. Cook said that the method of knocking the potato beetles from 

 the plants with a stick, is both old and new, for one of the largest growers 

 of potatoes in his section of the country had returned to it after trying all 

 kinds of poisons. He claimed it was cheaper for him to destroy them in that 

 way and while Prof. Cook did not understand how this could be possible, 

 yet this farmer claims it is so and follows out his belief. 



Mr. Saunders said that in the Maritime Provinces, Nova Scotia and 

 New Brunswick, he found the larch saw-fly (Ncmatus erichsonii), ex- 

 tremely abundant and destructive. 



Mr. E. C. M. Rand of New York exhibited some specimens of Co- 

 leoptera taken from a mummy, and suggested they might be of interest, 

 as perhaps old types. The mummy dated back at least as far as 1200 

 B. ( '. , and he explained the number of wrappers and method of covering, 

 and stated that channels had been made in the wrappers, and in these 

 some of the beetles were found. 



