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pleasure that the Koyal Society has already taken some steps towards the establishment 

 of a national museum, and believing that such an institution would very appreciably 

 assist the whole cause of science in Canada, they take this opportunity of assuring the 

 Royal Society that they will be pleased to help in every way in their power, towards this 

 end, by collecting specimens or otherwise. 



Signed on behalf of the Council, 



J. Fletcher, 



Delegate. 



Ottawa, May, 1883, • 



On motion duly carried, the report was received and adopted, and Mr. Fletcher was 

 unanimously re-elected the representative from the Entomological Society to the Royal 

 Society. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The election of officers then took place, when the following gentlemen were duly 

 elected : — 



President. — Wm. Saunders, London. 

 Vice-President. — James Fletcher, Ottawa, 



Secretary- Treasurer and Librarian. — E. Baynes Reed, London. 

 Council— Uev. C. J. S. Bethune, M.A., Port Hope ; Rev. T. W. Fyles, Levis, P.Q.; 

 W. H. Harrington, Ottawa ; John M. Denton, London ; J. Alston Moffatt, Hamilton. 

 Editor Canadian Entomologist." — Wm. Saunders. 



Editing Committee, — Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, J. M. Denton, E. Baynes Reed. 

 Auditors. — H. P. Bock and W. E. Saunders, London. 



REVISION OF THE SOCIETY'S PRINTED LISTS OF INSECTS, ETC. 



On the motion of Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, duly carried, it was resolved that the 

 Society should, as soon as possible, publish a revised list of the Canadian Diurnals ; 

 adopting as a basis the list and classification of Mr. W. H. Edwards, of West Virginia. 

 And that the Society should also publish additional lists of such moths as have been found 

 to be Canadian, and are not contained in the Society's existing lists. 



In view of the desirability of the publication of the description of hitherto unde- 

 scribed larvae, and with a view to aid therein, the President and Vice-President, Rev. C. 

 J. S. Bethune and W. H. Harrington, were appointed a committee to prepare blank 

 forms for the use of members in describing larvae ; the Society being of the opinion that 

 following the practice of Westwood and Stainton, the body should be considered as con- 

 sisting of thirteen segments, the head being the first. 



The Rev. T. W. Fyles then read an interesting paper on " Observations on Form and 

 Colour as Exhibited in Insect Life." 



A. A. A. S. 



The President submitted a report of the proceedings of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, held at Minneapolis in August last, which he attended as 

 the representative of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 



DISCUSSION ON MISCELLANEOUS ENTOMOLOGICAL SUBJECTS. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited a borer found by him injuring maple, the insect being a small 

 moth belonging to Hepialus or some closely allied genus. This insect was new to the 

 members. 



