to 5,700 feet, were presented by Professor Poulton, and 16 by- 

 Professor Meldola. 



Five hundred and fifty-three specimens, captured in small 

 sets at a very large number of localities on the Canadian 

 Pacific and Grand Trunk Railways between Banff and Toronto, 

 were also presented. The principal sets came from the 

 following places, proceeding eastward from Lake Louise- 

 Banff, Medicine Hat, Waldeck, Rush Lake, Parkbeg, Moose- 

 jaw, Regina, Brandon, Carberry, Rennie, Rat Portage and 

 Nepigon. Of this number of specimens 8 were captured and 

 presented by Miss Cecil Vernon Harcourt, 10 by Miss E.- C. 

 Ramsay, 14 by Mr. W. G. Ramsay, 9 by Professor Meldola, 

 3 by Professor G. F. Fitzgerald, 2 by Dr. W. Saunders of 

 Ottawa, 4 by E. H. Chapman, Esq., of Magdalen College, 

 24 by E. M. Walker, Esq., of Toronto, and the remainder by 

 Professor Poulton. 



A very fine consignment of 633 insects of many Orders 

 from Russell (W. Manitoba) was presented by Mr. H. R. 

 Smith, late assistant in the Hope Department. They include 

 over 400 specimens of Lepidoptera, several of which will be of 

 much value for the series illustrating the subject of Mimicr}^ 



One hundred and twenty-two insects from Virden (W. Mani- 

 toba) were captured and presented by Miss Mary G. Holmes. 

 The specimens are beautifully collected and accompanied by 

 excellent data. 



Concerning the specimens from Southern Canada enumerated 

 above, it may be well to point out that even the common species 

 are very rare in European Collections. Thus Mr. H. R. Smith's 

 valuable present included many specimens of two species of 

 Erebia {E. epipsodca and E. discoidalis), which had never 

 before been obtained further East than Calgary. Such a large 

 number of specimens with excellent data from this part of the 

 world forms an accession of the utmost value to the University 

 Collections, and has also enabled us to enrich the British 

 Museum with many of the duplicates. 



Professor Poulton presented 234, and Professor Meldola 24 

 specimens of insects captured, in August and September, in 

 the neighbourhood of Toronto. Professor J. Mavor, of Toronto, 

 and his son presented 12 insects from the same locality. 



