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this remedy very fully, they recommended that due caution should be used in preparing 

 the mixture not to make it too strong, one teaspoonful of the poison to a pailful of water 

 being sufficient ; if used much stronger than this it is apt to injure the foliage. 



An interesting communication was read from Mr. J. Alston MofFatt, of Hamilton, 

 on the pupa of Calofteron reticulatum ; he had found specimens under the bark of an elm 

 stump, curiously arranged in regular rows. Mr. Harrington had also observed the same 

 species, and remarked that Drs. Leconte and Horn, in their new classification of coleop- 

 tera, referred to these curious groups of pupae. 



Mr. Fletcher had found Mamestra picta very abundant at Ottawa on cabbage, 

 carrots, and many wild plants. 



Mr. Harrington remarked that Lycomorpha pholus had been very common in the 

 vicinity of Ottawa this season, he had seen hundreds of them ; had also found JEdipoda 

 corallina Harris quite common in oat fields. 



Rev. Mr. Fyles reported the Currant Worm Nematus ventricosus as being very abun- 

 dant at Levis, P.Q., where the bushes had been almost destroyed by them. He also 

 stated that much injury had been caused to the tamarack trees Larix Americana in Bury 

 and the neighbouring townships, by a species of saw fly, the same, probably, as that which 

 has caused so much injury in Maine and the other eastern States, Nematus Erichsonii. 



Mr. Harrington informed the members he had found Xyphidria albicornis boring 

 into maples, chiefly young trees where the bark was thin ; he had observed them ovi- 

 positing from the middle of June to end of July. The ovipositor is short ; he found in 

 one instance a tree thoroughly riddled by these borers, they having penetrated directly 

 into the wood. 



The members having spent some time in examining interesting insects in the 

 Society's collection, as well as those brought to the meeting, and also having availed them- 

 selves of the opportunity of reference to many of the valuable books in the Society's 

 Library, brought to a close a most interesting and profitable session. 



MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



A meeting of entomologists was held, according to announcement, on the 15th of 

 August, 1883, at Minneapolis, Minn., in the University Buildings. There were present 

 during the meeting the following : Prof. S. A. Forbes, Normal, Illinois ; Prof. C. V. 

 Riley, Washington ; D. S. Kellicott, Bufialo ; Herbert Osborn, Ames, Iowa ; O. S. 

 Westcott, Chicago ; Wm. Saunders, London, Ontario ; Dr. and J enny Hoy, Racine, Wis- 

 consin ; C. L. Herrick, E. W. Claypole, Prof. E. S. Morse, C. E. Bessey, E. H. Oanfield ; 

 Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt, Kirkwood, Mo. ; Mrs. M. B. Moody, Buffalo, N.Y. ; Thomas 

 S. Roberts, Minneapolis, Minn., and others. 



S. A. Forbes read a letter from J. A. Lintner, regretting his inability to be present, 

 and after some remarks by Mr. C. V. Riley as to the prevailing sentiment at the meeting 

 of entomologists last year of Montreal, it was decided to reorganize the Entomological 

 Club of the A. A. A. S., under the rules as hereinbefore recorded. 



On motion, the following officers for the ensuing year were then elected : — 



President. — D. S. Kellicott. 



Vice-President. — Herbert Osborn. 



Secretary. — O. S. Westcott. 



A communication was read from Mr. W. H. Edwards, of Coalburg, W. Va., giving 

 interesting recent experience in the rearing of butterflies of the following species : Papilio 

 rutuluSy P. zolicaon, Colias harhara^ C. amorphce, Melitaea chalcedon, M. phaeton., Lycena 

 melissa, Parnassius smintheus ? and Argynnis coronis ? The author stated that he had 

 bred rutulus and zolicoan from the egg, that rutulus is constantly distinguishable from 

 turnus, at least after the first larval stage ; and that zolicaon is closer to asterias than to 

 machaon. He had also reared from the egg Colias amorphae, and was inclined to the 

 opinion that it was distinct from C. eurydice. Opportunities had been afforded of study- 



