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 ENTOMOLOGICAL bOClLTV OV ONTAIILX 



Annual Meelia;/, 1SS7, at Ottawa. 



An event of coiisiilei"able scientific interest was the Annual fleet- 

 ing of the Entomological Society of Ontario, which was held in th'"s 

 city on Wednesday and Thursday, 26th and 27th October. Tlie 

 officers and members of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club received an 

 invitation to all the sessions. 



On Wednesday two Council meeting were held and visits were 

 paid to the Geological Museum and Experimental Farm. In the 

 e Veiling the President, Mr. James Fletcher, delivered the Annual 

 Address in the Civic Council Chamber. Tt outlined the oriijin and 

 progi-ess of the Entomological Society, and then treated of various in- 

 jurious insects which had been move or less destructive to field and 

 garden crops during the past summer. The adHress was of much 

 practical value, and was listened to with iiiterest'by a huge audience, 

 among whom were many members of our Club. A vot3 of thanks was 

 moved by Rev. C. J. S. Bethune and Prof. Saunders, both of whom 

 made appropriate and interesting speeches. Mr. Harrington had on 

 exhibition his large collection uf Ottawa Coleoptera, arranged in 

 eighteen cases, and numbering over 1,2.50 species. 



On Thur-sday sessions were held both in the forenoon and after- 

 noon in a commodious Com.nittaa Rmn. Aftn- tin uni.il presentation 

 of Reports, etc., the election of officers was held and resulted as follows 

 /'resident, James Fletcher, Ottawa ; Vice-President, 3Ir. E. Raynes 

 Reed; Secretary-Treasurer, Islv. W. F. Saunders, London; Council. 

 Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Port Hope; W. Hague Harrington, Ottawa; 

 Rev. T. W. Fyles, Quebec; J. M. Denton, London; Rev. Geo. W. 

 Taylor, Victoria, B. C. 



Rev. C. J. S. Bethune reul a very interesting paper on Aleti'i 

 argillacea, the celebrated cotton moth which does such enormous injury 

 to cotton in tlie Southern States. He described its occurrence in great 

 numbers at Port Ho])e on the Sth and Dth October. INIr. Harrington 

 gave an account of a similar appearance of the insect at Ottawa on the 

 evening of Sunday, Dth Cctober, when great numbers were attracted 



