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Papilio Gresphontes, Cram. — There have been several occurences of this butterfly 

 (Fig. 5) in the County of Oxford this year. I should be glad to hear from the members 



Fig. 5. 



whether any specimens have been taken during the past summer in other localities in the 

 Dominion of Canada generally, and especially the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. 



In the discussion which followed the paper, Mr. Moffat described his own capture of 

 the male of Pelecinus polycerator, and Mr. Fletcher described the unusual abundance at 

 Ottawa of Colias philodice. At an excursion of the Field Naturalist's Club to Brittania, 

 a few miles from the city, the sandy shore of the Ottawa had been so thickly covered with 

 them for a distance of several hundred yards, that at one stroke of the net he had cap- 

 tured 47, which, strange to say, were all males. 



Prof. Saunders stated that he had made search near London for the larvae of Papilio 

 cresphontes, where it had formerly been captured, but without success. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a fine collection of Canadian species of the genus Chionobas, 

 and explained the great value of these insects on account of their rarity hitherto in collec- 

 tions. G. Macounii Edw. was a new species which had been collected by Prof. Macoun, 

 .at Nepigon, in 1885, and the Rocky Mountains in 1886. Closely allied to it was G. Gigas 

 Butler, of which until the past summer only three specimens were known in collections. 

 Other beautiful species exhibited and described were G. Californica, G. Chryxus, C. Jutta, 

 G. Varuna and G. Uhleri, of which Prof. Macoun had taken specimens in the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



A pleasant and valuable paper by the Rev. George W. Taylor, of Victoria, B. C., 

 was read, describing an ascent of Mount Finlayson, B. O, in search of G. Gigas, and the 

 success which had attended the party. 



