ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting of the Society was held in the City Hall, Ottawa, on Friday and 

 Saturday, October 5th and 6th, 1888. A Council meeting was held on Friday morning 

 at 10.30 o'clock, in a committee room of the City Hall, at which the following members 

 were present : — The President, Mr. James Fletcher, Ottawa ; Mr. E. Baynes Reed, Mr. 

 W. E. Saunders and Mr. J. M. Denton, London ; Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Port Hope ;. 

 Rev. T. W. Fyles, Quebec ; Mr. James Moffatt, Hamilton ; Mr. H. H. Lyman, Mon- 

 treal. After the transaction of routine business, the sum of $200 was voted to the 

 Library Fund for the purchase of books and the binding of periodicals and pamphlets, 

 An Executive Committee, to consist of the President, the Editor, the Secretary-Trea- 

 surer and the members of the Council resident in London, was appointed to deal with all 

 the financial affairs of the Society, and to provide for the representation of the Society at 

 the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The 

 work of rearranging the Society's collections and putting them in good order was directed to 

 be continued, and Mr. Moffatt was requested to do for the Coleoptera what he has already 

 so successfully accomplished with the Lepidoptera. 



In the afternoon the Society met at 2 o'clock. Mr. W. H. Harrington was present 

 in addition to those above mentioned. Mr. Lyman exhibited a series of specimens of the 

 different species of Callimorpha which he had described in his paper last year (0. E. 

 xix. p. 181) and remarked upon their various peculiarities. He thought it most 

 desirable that names should be attached to the different varieties, even though they may 

 hereafter be found to belong to the same species. Messrs. Fletcher, Fyles and Moffatt 

 made remarks upon the subject, and agreed that all distinct forms should have separate 

 names. 



Mr. Fletcher gave an account of his visit to Nepigon, Lake Superior, early in July, 

 in company with Mr. S. H. Scudder, of Cambridge, Mass., for the purpose of collecting the 

 eggs of various rare species of butterflies. He described the various modes he employed 

 in order to induce the females to deposit their ejrgs and recounted the great success he 

 had achieved in securing the eggs of no less than nine species of butterflies and capturing 

 a large number of others. 



Rev. Dr. Bethune exhibited a number of specimens of Colias eurytheme, chiefly of 

 the form eriphyle, which he had taken at Port Arthur on the 1st of September last, and 

 gave an account of his trip to the ISTepigon river, exhibiting a large number of specimens 

 of butterflies and other insects captured there on August 21st, 22nd and 30th. Among 

 these may be especially mentioned Colias interior and eurytheme, Argyrmis electa and 

 bellona, Phyciodes tharos and nycteis, Grapta proqne, Pyrameis huntera and cardui, 

 Limenitis arthemis, etc. 



Rev. T. W. Fyles read a paper on Chionobas jutta, in which he recounted his suc- 

 cess in rearing the insect through all its stages. 



Mr. Fletcher and Dr. Bethune spoke of the desirability of issuing a series of papers 

 on " Popular and Economic Entomology " in the Canadian Entomologist, and urged upon 

 the members present the necessity of co-operating in the work. The editor also drew the 

 attention of the meeting to the duty of at once providing the material required for the 

 Annual Report of the Society. 



The President laid on the table specimen sheets and plates of Mr. Scudder's great 

 work on the butterflies of the Eastern States and Canada, which were examined by the 

 members with much interest. He also brought up for discussion the subject of the 

 disease known as " silver-top " in hay, which is believed to be caused by a species of 

 Thrips, and requested the members to investigate the matter in their various localities. 

 The only remedy at present suggested is the plowing up of the old hayfields which are found 

 to be the most seriously attacked. The depredations of grasshoppers during the past 

 season were next considered. Mr. Fletcher suggested that much might be done to reduce 

 their numbers by cutting the hay about the 20th June, if practicable, and thus prevent- 



