28 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



E. T. Cresson, Esq., Secretary to the American Entomological Society, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



W. H. Edwards,, Esq., Coalburgh, Kanawha Co., West Va. 



Prof. Townend Glover, Agricultural Department, Washington, D. C 



Augustus R. Grote, Esq., New York. 



Dr. George H. Horn, President of the American Entomological So- 

 ciety, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Dr. J. L. LeConte, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Dr. a. S. Packard, Jun., Editor American Naturalist, Salem, Mass. 



C. V. lliLEY, Esq., State Entomologist of Missouri, St. Louis, Mo. 



S. H. ScuDDER, Esq., Secretary, &c., to the Society of Natural History, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Benj. D. Walsh, Esq., M.A., State Entomologist of Illinois, Rock 

 Island, 111. 



The following gentlemen were also elected members : — 



MaRmaduke S. Richmond, Esq., Wooler, Ont., to be an Ordinary 

 Member. 



John Fletcher, Esq., Detroit, Michigan, (late of Oakville, Ont.,) to be 

 a Corresponding Member. 



A vote of thanks was passed to F. Walker, Esq., of Elm Hall, Wanstead, 

 Essex, England, for his kind donation of two boxes of specimens of vaiious 

 orders of British and Foreign insects. 



A collection of Cicindelidce was exhibited by the Rev. C J. S. Bethune, 

 after the examination of which, as well as of the new donations, the meeting 

 adjourned. 



NOTICE OF A STATION FOR MELIT^A PHAETON IN THE 

 NEIGHBOURHOOD OF OTTAWA, ONTARIO. 



BY B. BILLINGS. 



Early in July I accidentally discovered a locality for this rare butterfly 

 within fwo miles of the city limits. It is an open swamp, densely surrounded 

 with coniferous trees, which are almost impenetrable except by a path which 

 passes through them. It occupies an area of about eight or ten acres, with 

 a few scattered trees of TImJa occidentalis and Larix Americana. The 

 shrubs consist of ^^« MS incana, Rhamnus alnifolius, Ruhus triflorus, Ledum 

 latifolium, and an occasional clump of Cornus stoJenifera, Myrica Gale, and 

 Salix Candida. The principal herbaceous plants are Thalktrum ' Cornuii, 

 Chelone glabra, Platanthera hyperhorea, P. dilatata, Cypripedium puhes. 

 oens, C. spectabile, and a few grasses and sedges. Aspidium Thelypteris is 



