Last year, at our annual meeting, I took the opportunity of calling your attention to many fields of Entomological labour that are now all but unexplored in this country. May I repeat that there is ample scope for the exertions of all our members, whether they care only to form collections of specimens, or prefer to devote their labours to the unfolding of the life-histories or the study of the classification of insects? There is plenty of work remaining to be done even in the favourite orders of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, to say nothing of the others that are not so generally studied or collected. It would be a valuable contribution to our store of knowledge were lists of the Canadian species of all orders of insects to be formed, and presented to the Society for publication; and at the same time a revision made of those published some years ago.

But not only is there scientific work of this kind to be performed, which will require generations for its complete achievement; there comes before us at the present moment an extraordinary object for accomplishment during the approaching winter--I allude to the representation of the Society by means of a collection of Canadian insects at the approaching Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. You will all, I think, agree with us in the belief that it is a matter of great importance to the Society that it should be brought in this way before the notice of the world, and that it cannot but be of some benefit to the Dominion that its Natural History, as well as its industrial resources, should be fully exhibited. The Council of the Agricultural and Arts Association have already, on our behalf, brought the matter before the Commissioners appointed by the Government, and we understand that a sum of money will be provided to aid us in the satisfactory performance of the work. To gather together a fitting collection of insects, and to prepare them for exhibition, is a task that will strain to the utmost all the resources of the Society. We have commenced the work relying upon the co-operation of you all, and now we trust that every one will help us by the loan of specimens and any other aid that can be afforded. The Society is committed to the task; let us see to it that there be no failure!

Before turning from matters immediately affecting our Society, I may mention that our periodical, THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, continues to be maintained with undiminished efficiency and interest, being largely supported and contributed to by our Entomological brethren of the United States; and that the last ANNUAL REPORT presented by the Society to the Legislature has been received with more than usual marks of favour by the press, scientific, agricultural and political, not only in

Canada and the neighbouring States, but also in England; we have been naturally gratified to observe that in many instances copious extracts have been made from its pages, and even a whole article reprinted in an English scientific magazine.

Having referred thus far to our Society and the things that especially concern it, let me now say a few words regarding Entomological matters in general. At the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in August last, at Detroit, Michigan, the general Entomological Club, organized last year at Hartford, met for the first time. Its sessions, held daily throughout the week of meeting, were remarkably interesting. They were presided over by Dr. LeConte, undoubtedly the greatest of living American Entomologists, and were attended by a great majority of the noted Entomologists of this continent. Our own Society was most efficiently represented by our able Editor, Mr. Saunders; I much regret that the pressure of business matters at home prevented me from accompanying him, as I fully intended to have done. As a complete report of the proceedings is being published in the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, I need not detain you by any account of them here. Next year the meeting is to be held at Buffalo, N. Y.-a place even more convenient of access for Canadians than Detroit. We trust that a large number of our members will avail themselves of this opportunitywhich may not occur again for many years to come-of attending the sessions, and making the personal acquaintance of our American brethren. From past experience I can assure them of a hearty welcome, while no one can doubt that more valuable information can be acquired in a few days in an assemblage of this kind than can be obtained in years of solitary work.

During the season that is now all but brought to a close, there has occurred nothing of a very startling or unexpected character. The Colorado Beetle has continued to extend his ravages throughout our country, but he has been met by such a determined and universal resistance that his work of devastation has been hardly appreciable; certainly in the central portion of this Province we have never had a finer crop of potatoes both as regards quantity and quality. The Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rape), to which I also referred last year, has been rapidly extending to the west, and has already become a common object in the neighbourhood of London. So closely, however, does its parasite (Pteromalus puparum) follow in its wake, that where a year ago it was most destructive to all its food-plants, it has this season wrought but a

moderate amount of danger. The Locusts, or Grasshoppers, of the West (Caloptenus spretus), have continued to commit much havoc, though not by any means on the frightful scale of last year; there is every prospect that the destitution and suffering then occasioned by them will not be repeated to any very great extent this year.

While there has been upon the whole a decided diminution in the amount of loss occasioned by noxious insects during the past year, we have nevertheless to record an increase in the numbers and consequent power for evil, of several common species that are always more or less abundant; among the most notable I may mention the Army Worm (Leucania unipuncta), which has wrought much damage in the Maritime Provinces of the Dominion, as well as in some portions of the United States; the two species of Tent-Caterpillars (Clisiocampa Americana and sylvatica), which have been excessively abundant and destructive to fruit and forest trees in many parts of this Province; and the Pea Weevil (Bruchus pisi), which we much fear may soon become―unless measures are taken to prevent it ---a source of great loss to our agriculturists. These I mention as having had a more than usual manifestation this year, but I need not detain you with any account of the ordinary work of our insect friends and foes, which are so familiar to every one in this country.

As I mentioned at the outset, you have done me the great honour of electing me your President for five years in succession; while I thank you most cordially for your kindness and consideration so repeatedly shown to me, I feel that it is only reasonable that I should now make way for some one else, who may be able to devote more time and energy to the interests of our Society, and be of more real use to it than I have latterly been capable of. I beg, therefore, to resign into your hands the office that you have so long honoured me with; at the same time I desire to say that I shall continue always to have the welfare of the Society at heart, and that I shall ever be ready and willing to do all that lies in my power to advance its best interests. Again offering you my respectful thanks, I have the honour to be, gentlemen,

Your obedient servant,

CHARLES J. S. BETHUNE.

Trinity College School, Port Hope, September, 1875.

NEW TEXAN MOTHS.

BY LEON F. HARVEY, M. D., BUFFALO, N. Y.

Parasa incisa, n. s.

1. This species has the fore wings and thorax of a soft brown. The primary is covered by a pea-green patch, which does not reach the margins and is defined outwardly by a narrow dark line running once. deeply inwardly below vein 2 and slightly opposite the cell. Hind wings light yellowish. It appears to be allied to paenulata Clem., unknown to me, but differs by the shape of the green patch and in its not being bordered with white. The thorax in P. chloris is grass green. Expanse 21 m. m. Bosque Co., Texas (Belfrage, No. 554.)

Euerythra phasma, n. g. et sp.

. The insect is allied to Spilosoma, but the head is more prominent, the wings narrower and the antennæ more continuously pectinate. The neuration has not been studied of this form, which is so distinctly marked as to be at once recognized, and which I do not find in authors. White. Fore wings white, crossed by a broad irregular blackish band from base to extremity of veins 3 and 4, where it retains the otherwise white fringes. From apices to middle of external margin a second band diagonally crosses the wing. A discal black spot and traces of an extra basal band. Everywhere, where the blackish color obtains the veins are bright yellow, as is the submedian fold. Body above crimson whitish at base. Thorax and head above white. Squamation about the eyes crimson. Anterior legs fuscous outwardly; palpi fuscous. Beneath, the white secondaries show a dot. Expanse 38 m. m. (May 5, Belfrage, No. 471).

Litodonta, u. g.

Allied to Heterocampa of Doubleday. It differs by the antennae being pectinate in both sexes. The thorax is more brushily tufted behind; the head more appressed; the abdomen shorter.

Litodonta hydromeli, n. s.

f. Fuscous, overspread with pale green on primaries and thorax. Basal and sub-basal spaces powdered with orange scales; subterminal line followed by orange scales. Lines distinct, widely geminate, sinuate,

sub-lunulate; space beyond the black discal streak clear fuscous. Fringes pale cut with fuscous, opposite the ends of nervules; terminal line disHind wings pale at base, smoky outwardly; beneath fuscous, with distinct terminal lines and fringes cut with fuscous.

Thorax lined with May 7, Belfrage, No.

I describe the type of this genus, the only one of the species which has the orange shadings. A paper is being prepared with a plate of the species, which are difficult to separate without illustration.

Aletia hostia, n. s.

Smaller than argiliacea. It differs by the stigmata being expressed by white dots, of which two super-posed, express the reniform. The ordinary lines are very narrowly white margined, appearing guttate. Hind wings blackish; fore wings darker than in argillacea. sight more distinct than in its common ally. above characters. Belfrage, No. 535.

Caradrina conviva, n. s.

The t. p. line is at first Easily recognized by the

A small species of the size of grata (rasilis Morr.) Palpi black at the sides. Pale yellow brown, or fawn color. Lines dotted. T. p. line widely geminate. Subterminal line a blackish shade. Fringes blackish T. a. line incomplete, strongly dentate. Reniform ill defined; a blackish shade above it on costa indicates the median shade; a dot indicates the orbicular. Terminal line black, interrupted. Hind wings white, glistening, immaculate, beneath stained along costal region and above here a little tinted. Thorax and head above like fore wings, abdomen pale. Expanse 21 m. m. Belfrage, No. 539.

Mamestra brachiolum, n. s.

9. Very near the Californian M. cuneata Grote, differing as follows : There are no yellow shades beyond the subterminal line, which is more distinctly waved in the female; the claviform is present, absent in its ally ; the thorax is purely fuscous and the whole insect darker than in the Californian species; in the male at least the orbicular is more rounded, the t. p. line is straighter, not inwardly bent below the median vein, hence the lines are inferiorly wider apart than in cuneata. Else the two species are very similar. Expanse 28 m. m.

Belfrage, No.

102. In this species

the ovipositor is concealed as in cuncata.