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Nocturnal Lepidoptera ;" (2) by Mr. Saunders, "Observations and Notes on 

 Insects during the past season." 



The meeting: also assembled in the evening for the purpose of examining 

 specimens, comparing notes, &c , and adjourned after a couple of hours spent 

 very pleasantly. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



REPORT FOR 1864. 



The Council of the Entomological Society of Canada, in presenting their 

 Second Annual Report, beg to congratulate the members upon the very satisfac-. 

 tory progress that has already been made by the Society. During the past 

 year, two branches have been formed in conection with it ; one at Quebec, C. E ; 

 the other at London, C. W., both of which are now in active operation. This 

 is a course that will, we trust, be followed by entomologists in other parts of 

 Canada, and thus a strong society will be formed, which may successfully carry 

 out the study of the insect fauna of Canada. The Quebec Branch now contains 

 twelve members, and has already formed a goodly collection of native insects . 

 four papers were read during the year, and meetings were regularly held in the 

 rooms of the Literary and Historical Society ; its proceedings are published in 

 the " Canadian Naturalist and Geologist.'' The London Branch was organized 

 on the 1st of July. 1864, and now numbers fifteen members : monthly meetings, 

 at which live papers were read, were held at the houses of members in rotation, 

 and during the season, the mornings of every Monday were devoted to field ex- 

 cursions. The Parent Society, exclusive of the Branches, is now composed of 

 twenty-one members ; the whole number is, therefore, forly-eisht, an increase of 

 twelve during the year. Three general meetings of the Society have been held, 

 and several field-meetings also, during the summer months. Six papers have 

 been read, and several valuable contributions to the library have been received. 

 The number of donations of specimens of insects to the Cabinet of the Society, 

 is particularly gratifying, — the whole number now amounting to upwards of 

 2,500. Moreover, in addition to these, a large number of European insects, of 

 various orders, has been brought out for the Society by the Secretary, — the gift 

 chiefly of Francis Walker, Esq.. F.Fj.S., of the British Museum, London, — these 

 have not yet been arranged in the cab'net provided for them by the Canadian 

 Institute, but will ere long be put in their proper places. A list of Canadian 

 Lepidoptera, embracing all the Rhopalocera. and the groups Sphingina and 

 Bombycina of the Heterocera has been published ; the remainder is under pre- 

 paration. The Council, in conclusion, cannot refrain from expressing their 

 regret that the Society has been deprived of the active co-operation of Dr. B. R. 

 Morris, of Toronto, who lately left this country for England. His interest in 

 our proceedings will, we trust, be continued as a corresponding member. 



CHARLES J. S. BETHUNE, 



Secretary. 



