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The monthly journal of the Society, the Canadian Entomologist, has heen regularly 

 issued during the past year, and still continues to hold its place as the leading magazine 

 devoted exclusively to entomology published on this continent. It has completed its 

 nineteenth volume and entered upon its twentieth. The former consists of 240 pages of 

 reading matter, with one plate besides the index. The subject matter is fully up to the 

 standard of former volumes, both in interest and importance. Three new genera and 

 sixty-two new species were described in it, and the contributors to its pages, amounting 

 to thirty-seven in number, embrace a considerable portion of the active and eminent 

 entomologists of this continent, as well as others of less note. 



For a number of years past one of the most important and valuable features of the 

 Entomologist has been the very full descriptions of the preparatory stages or life histories 

 of a considerable number of butterflies and some beetles, which have been contributed by 

 entomologists eminent in their respective branches. These descriptions have been 

 accumulating from year to year, and now amount to a very large number in comparison 

 with the number o? those whose early stages were known fifteen or twenty years ago. 



The annual report of the Society for the year 1887 has been somewhat delayed, not 

 having yet been issued to the members, but it is expected to be distributed within a few 

 days and will no doubt be quite up to the high standard of the reports of previous years. 



The very important collection of insects exhibited by the Society at the Colonial 

 and Indian Exhibition was duly returned to the Society's headquarters at London, Ont. 

 Upon examination it was found that some of the specimens had been badly damaged on 

 the journey, as was naturally to be expected, and that many others had suffered very 

 much from the long continued exposure to the light at the exhibition, as must inevitably 

 occur under similar circumstances. The Society has accordingly issued a list of species 

 required to place its collection again in perfect order, and, though the list is large, many 

 have already been received, and it is to be hoped that the remainder qf the specimens 

 needed may be forthcoming from the members at no distant day. 



The establishment in connection with the Department of Agriculture of the Central 

 Experimental Farm, under the able direction of Mr. William Saunders, a former presi- 

 dent of the Entomological Society, and the appointment to the position of Entomologist 

 in connection with the same of so able and active an entomologist as Mr. James Fletcher, 

 the present President of the Society, is likely to prove of vast importance to the country. 

 The active work which is now being carried on will certainly prove of great benefit to 

 the agriculturists of this country, not only by showing what crops it will be best to grow, 

 but also how to preserve those crops from the destructive ravages of their tiny insect 

 foes. 



H. H. LYMAN, 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MONTREAL BRANCH. 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the Montreal Branch of the Entomological Society 

 of Ontario was held on May 8, 1888, when the following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year : — President, H. H. Lyman ; Vice-President, F. B. Caulfield ; Secretary- 

 Treasurer, E. C. Trenholme ; Council, J. F. Haussen, A. F. Winn. 



The reports of the Council and Secretary-Treasurer were read and on motion adopted. 



Mr. Lyman shewed some curious varieties of Callimorpha confusa taken by Mr. 

 Bethune at Credit and Port Hope, Ontario. 



Mr. Winn shewed some interesting Geometers taken at Montreal and other parts of 

 Canada. 



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