MONTREAL BRANCH— ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The thirteenth annual meeting of this Branch was held at the residence of the President, 

 G. J. Bowles, Esq., on Tuesday, May 25th, 1886, at 8 o'clock p.m. 



The President read the following report of the Council for the year : — 



The Council beg to submit the Thirteenth Annual Report of the Branch. 

 Seven meetings have been held during the year, at which the following papers have 

 been read : — 



1. Insects of Canada and Norway. — G. J. Bowles. 



2. On Physonota unipuncta, Say, and its supposed varieties. — F. B. Caulfield. 



3. Euchcetes egle and its white variety. — G. J. Bowles. 



4. On the hybernation of Formica herculeana. — G. J. Bowles. 



5. Notes on some species of Silphidce occurring in the vicinity of Montreal. — ■ 

 F. B. Caulfield. 



6. The Catocalas. — G. J. Bowles. 



7. Notes for 1885 on injurious and other insects. — J. G. Jack. 



8. Notes on Ceresa bubalus, the Buffalo Tree-hopper. — J. G. Jack. 



9. Notes on the Zygcenidce. — G. J. Bowles. 



10. On some collecting grounds in the neighbourhood of Montreal.: — F. B. Caulfield. 



11. List of Orthoptera taken in the vicinity of Montreal. — F. B. Caulfield. 



Of these papers, Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7 have been published in the Canadian Ento- 

 mologist, and No. 5 in the Society's Annual Report for 1885. 



Your Council have much pleasure in stating that the meetings have been well 

 sustained, and that a number of species have been added to our local list. 



The Hemiptera have been taken up by Mr. Bowles, and a number of species 

 identified, and the Orthoptera, through Mr. Caulfield's exertions, have been increased from 

 six species to thirty. 



The number of species added to the Montreal lists during the year is as follows : — 



Lepidoptera 81 



Coleoptera 142 



Hymenoptera 5 



Orthoptera 24 



Diptera 15 



Neuroptera „ . , , 10 



Hemiptera 15 



Total 292 



Which, added to the list of last year, makes the total number on the Montreal list 1,395 > 

 divided as follows : — 



Lepidoptera 565 



Coleoptera 581 



Hymenoptera 104 



Orthoptera 30 



Diptera 74 



Neuroptera . 22 



Hemiptera 19 



Total species 1,395 



"While congratulating the Society upon the work accomplished during the year, your 

 Council would remind the members that much still remains to be done, even in the 

 favourite orders Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. In the former, the Micros have been almost 

 entirely neglected, and special attention should be given to these and to the early stages of 

 all the families. In Coleoptera the number of Dytiscidce and the smaller Carabidce might, 



