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Yorkshire, England, a number of English Lepidoptera. From Mr. Prest, 

 York, England, ditto. From Mr. McLachlan, London, England, a valuable col- 

 lection of typical forms of Trichoptera, being the British species enumerated in 

 his recent monograph on this order. From Mr. Pettit, Grimsby, 131 specimens 

 of Canadian Insects, chiefly Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. From Mr Saunders, 

 London, C. W. several specimens of the same orders. From Mr. Orange, a few 

 Lepidoptera. 



The following works were presented to the Library by the Rev. H P. Hope, 

 Toronto : — Gosse's Romance of Natural History ; Broderip's Zoological Recrea- 

 tions ; Elements of Natural History, vol. 2 ; a copy of the ' Carte de Visite" of 

 Mr. H, Ulke, Coleopterist, Washington, D.C. ; and a photograph of a new species 

 of Alypia (A. Lcmgtonii, Couper) were also announced as having been received 

 from Mr. Wm. Couper, Curator of the Quebec Branch. 



The following officers were elected for the year 1865 : — ^President, Rev. Prof. 

 Hincks, P.L.S. ; Vice-President, William Saunders, Esq. ; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 Rev. G. J. S. Bethune, M. A. ; Curator, Robert V. Rogers, Esq., Jr., B.A. Mr. 

 Harbottle was also requested to assist Mr. Rogers in the duties of the Curator- 

 ship during the year. 



The standing Committees on the various Insect orders were re-arranged as 

 follows : — On Coleoptera, Prof. Croft, Messrs. B. Billings and Couper. On Lepi- 

 doptera, Messrs. Bethune, Reed, Saunders, and Bowles. On Orthoptera and 

 Neuroptera, Prof. Hincks, Dr. Cowdry, Mr. B Billings. On Diptera, Messrs. 

 Rogers, Couper, and Clarke. On Hymenoptera, Messrs. Saunders, Beckett and 

 Bowles. On Insect-architecture, Messrs. Couper, Sangster, Hope, and H. 

 Cowdry. 



Mr. Saunders reported, on behalf of the Committee on Canadian silk-producing 

 moths, that during the past year he had succeeded in getting two of the best 

 of our silk-producers (Mtacus cecropia and A. polyphemus) to breed in captivity, 

 and that there is not the slightest difficulty in raising them in any numbers. 



Mr. Bethune, on behalf of the Committee on Lepidoptera, presented a list of 

 upwards of three hundred Canadian species not enumerated in the list already 

 published by the Society. He was authorized to proceed with its publication 

 immediately. 



Mr. Hope suggested that the Society should send a collection of the more 

 conspicuous Canadian Insects to the Exhibition about to be held in Dublin, in 

 order to afford naturalists at home an opportunity of seeing some of the insect 

 forms of this country. After some discussion, in which the suggestion was 

 approved of, it was decided to defer any action in the matter till it was learnt 

 whether the Government intended to make any grant to meet the expenses of 

 forwarding articles from this country. 



The Secretary informed the meeting of what had been done in order to pro- 

 cure German entomological pins for the Society. English ones had been im- 

 ported in mistake by the merchant to whom the order was entrusted, but mea- 

 sures had been taken to send them back and obtain the desired quality as soon 

 as possible. 



Papers were read (1) by Mr. Bethune, on "Some New Species of Canadian 



