23 



Mr. Reed exhibited a coloured photograph presented to the Society by Mr. Alfred 

 "Wailly, an English member of the Society, representing an extraordinary aberrant form of 

 Attacus cecropia. 



Mr. Fletcher stated that he was happy to announce that during the past summer, 

 under instructions from Dr. Selwyn, F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 an interesting collection of Lepidoptera had been made in the Lake Nipigon region by 

 Prof. Macoun and Mr. William Macoun, and that these having been submitted to him for 

 identification he had found many very valuable insects included, among which he made 

 special mention of two species of Ghionobas, Colias Eurytheme, Colias Interior, a species 

 of Chrysophanus, which was possibly new, and Alypia MacCullochii. By means of these 

 instructions to the surveyors it was hoped that much useful information would be obtained 

 of the insect fauna of those newer parts of the Dominion that were being explored and 

 opened up for occupation. 



Mr. Fletcher remarked that we have heard a good deal of rubbish in the newspaper s T 

 etc., about nothing being done by the members of the Geological Survey ; he hoped that it 

 was unnecessary to say that these reports were entirely without foundation, and at any 

 rate the present action of the director would prove to all entomologists that he appreciated 

 the value of their scientific researches. 



The evening being somewhat advanced, the Society adjourned until 9 o'clock next 

 morning. 



The Society re-assembled Thursday morning at 9.30. The President in the chair. 



Mr. "W. H. Harrington stated that Phytonomus nigrirostris occurred in considerable 

 numbers in the vicinity of Ottawa, but that he had not found any evidences of the destruc- 

 tive habits described by Mr. Fletcher. It was, however, known to attack clover in 

 Europe. 



He mentioned several insects found by him on Larch such as Urocerus Jlavicornis and 

 Buprestris maculiventris. During the previous summer he had in company with Mr. 

 Fletcher, noticed a grove of tamarac with trees in various stages of health and decay and 

 the cause of the latter seemed undoubtedly to be a species of Dendroctonus, which was 

 found in immense numbers under the bark of sickly and dying trees. The bark was com- 

 pletely undermined and riddled by its galleries and swarmed with larvae, pupae and beetles. 



Associated with these were large numbers of a smaller bark-borer — Ilylesinus opaculus 

 — with one or two other species which would not be likely from their habits or numbers 

 to do much injury. Examination of dead trees shewed that the bark had been destroyed 

 in the same manner, but now contained no beetles. 



In reply to a question as to whether such bark beetles ever attacked living and 

 healthy trees, Mr. Harrington answered in the affirmative, and instanced a species which 

 he had during the spring found boring into and through the terminal buds of Pinus 

 strobus (white pine) and thus destroying them. 



Mr. Harrington exhibited a small collection of about fifty species of Ooleoptera taken 

 by him at Sydney, Cape Breton during a visit of a few days in September, also specimens of 

 the Chinch bug which he had found abundant there ; he also exhibited a Chalcophora 

 liberta with deformed thorax, a Trogosita mauritanica with malformed head, and a wasp 

 ( Vespa ?) with one of its antenna? curiously deformed. 



Rev. T. W. Fyles shewed specimens of Colias Eurytheme, Pamphila Mtmitoba, Pyrgus 

 Centaureoe, a female of Svierinthus Cerysii, and other rare insects. 



Mr. J. Alston Moffatt shewed a collection of rare . and interesting insects both Lepi- 

 doptera and Coleoptera. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a collection of forty specimens of Colias Philodice, shewing 

 many curious variations. 



Two specimens of Colias Eurytheme, one of which was the autumn form bred from 

 the egg. 



Two specimens of a small moth bred from larvae found boring in the flowers and 

 capsules of Nelumbium luteum, at Chicago. 



A specimen of Sphinx luscitiosa. 



An Hepialus taken at Dalhousie, N.B., very similar to H. Argenteo-maculata, but 

 smaller, and having four spots on the primaries. 



