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" In this part of Canada we have only one native white 

 butterfly, viz. P. oleracea, which is found always in woods or 

 wooded lands, though it is somewhat fond of flying along 

 the roads in these woods. 



" Pic/is rapcc is very common over here, having been 

 imported some sixty years back, and its habits here are just 

 the same as in England. P. oleracea appears to be getting 

 much scarcer near here, and the collectors put it down to 

 P. rapce driving it out, but I cannot see how this can be, as 

 their habits, food, etc., are so dissimilar. The flight of 

 P. oleracea is weakish, but stronger than that of the English 

 Leptidia sinapis. 



" The three Lost River specimens I cannot make out. I 

 took them this spring around Eraser Lake, Lost River, about 

 1200 feet above sea-level. Around this lake, farms, clearings, 

 and woods alternate, and the species (?) seems to prefer the 

 grassy lands to the more wooded places. Are they a cross 

 between P. oleracea and P. rapcc- ? They seem to be very 

 like the English P. napi, but that species is not known in 

 this district. 



" Notice the black body and quick stopping of black 

 shading on the wings of P. oleracea, whereas, in the Lost 

 River specimens, the body and shading is greyish, and much 

 more sufi"used on the wings, with distinct spots in the 

 female ; it also seems a more robust insect than P. oleracea. 



" When I took P. oleracea and the Lost River specimens 

 P. rapa; was not on the wing, but about three weeks later a 

 friend took P. rapce, which then appeared fresh, and also 

 P. oleracea, which were mostly worn." 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a number of cases of a Coleo- 

 phorid feeding on the seeds of wild sweet-william {Dianthus 

 barbatus), sent to him from Hyeres by Dr. Chapman, and a 

 short series of the imagines bred from them. It was after- 

 wards ascertained to be Coleophora dianthi. He also exhibited 

 the nest of a species of wasp, Polistes sp. (?), found in August 

 of igog at Zermatt, attached to a twig of Alpine rose 

 {Rhododendron ferrugineum) ; and stated that at Grindelwald 

 this year he had met with a very similar nest attached to a 

 natural rock used as a monument in the churchyard. It 

 was in full sunlight, of precisely the same tint as the stone, 

 very inconspicuous, and its inhabitants were actively at work. 



Captain Cardew exhibited a very flne example of the con- 

 fluent form of Anthrocera vicice {meliloti), which has been 

 called V. confusa. It was taken in the New Forest, in July 

 last, when the species was in some numbers. He also 



