identify them by. He preferred to give a new name to an insect rather than to identify 

 it with an old name, unless he was quite sure of his identification. 



Dr. Hoy spoke of the peculiarities of the Lepidopterous fauna, of Eacine, Wis., 

 describing the location of the place, and enumerating some of the Southern butterflies 

 and moths that have been taken there, — among them Terias Mexicana, Apatura celtis, 

 Argus labruscae, Dilophonota ello, and Erebus Zenobia. 



On Tuesday, 16th, Dr. Lintner spoke on the larva of Haltica Alleni, Harris, now 

 known as H. bimarginata Say, which he found in great numbers near Lake Pleasant, 

 skeletonizing Alder. He exhibited specimens of the larva? and pupa?. The latter are 

 found naked in moss. It was yellow when found, not white as described by Dr. 

 Packard. 



Mr. Angell stated that he had recently, for the first time, heard Polyphylla stridu- 

 late. Mr. Dimmock said that Cerixa sometimes makes quite a loud stridulating noise. 



Some general remarks and questions concerning captures at Sandy Hook followed, 

 and the Club finally adjourned to meet again at 9 a.m., on the first day of next year's 

 meeting of the A. A. A. S. 



[For the above account we are much indebted to Mr. J. B. Smith's Report in En~ 

 tomologica Americana for September and October, 1887]. 



ADDENDUM TO THE PAPER ON THE COTTON MOTH IN CANADA. 



{Page 18.) 



BY THE REV. C. J. S. BETHUNE, PORT HOPE. 



The information brought out during the discussion of my paper on the Cotton Moth 

 — read at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society at Ottawa — has led me to 

 entirely change my views as expressed therein regarding the migration of this insect 

 from the south to the north. I am now convinced that the moth does come to us from 

 the cotton fields of the south, and is not a native of this country, for the following 

 reasons : — 



1. The simultaneous appearance of the moths in vast numbers at Hamilton, Port 

 Hope, and Ottawa can only be accounted for by the migration theory. 



2. There are not enough plants in the whole of Canada of the order Malvaceae to 

 provide sustenance for the larva? of the moths seen at the above three places alone. 



3. The few common plants of this order have not been observed by our entomologists 

 to be attacked by any insect whatever. 



4. No specimens of the larva? of the cotton moth have ever been found in this 

 Province upon the basswood — the only probable alternative food-plant. 



5. The prevailing winds during the week previous to the arrival of the moth were 

 quite favourable to its flight from the south-west. 



6. The appearance of the moth in Canada during the many years of its occurrence 

 has always been in the autumn, at the end of September or the beginning of October. 

 At this time of year the cotton fields are pretty well denuded of foliage, and the moth, 

 finding no suitable places for depositing its eggs, flies off to distant localities. 



Since the meeting of our Society in October, I have endeavored by correspondence 

 to trace the flight of the moth, but though my friends have been very kind in replying 

 to my enquiries, I have not been very successful. I wrote to one entomologist in each 



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