many miles Ijelng seriously disfigured. Fleris Rapre, the cabbage 

 butterfly, was a most troublesome pest in gardens, but had its numbers 

 greatly reduced towards the end of the season by the fungous disease 

 known under the name o? Jtacherie. Another butterfly, Coluis FJbi- 

 lodice, the sulphur yellow butterfly mentioned in last year's report as 

 having been extremely scarce, this year appeared in almost unpre- 

 cedented numbers, and committed considerable depredations upon 

 various leguminous ])lants. It was found to be parasitized by a small 

 ichneumon named Apanieles congregatus, Say. 



Among beetles a small brownish species, Byturus unicolor, was 

 very troublesome from destroying the flowers of garden raspberries. 

 Systena frontalis, an elongate, black " floi-beetle " attacked many plants 

 in gardens. 



The larva3 of a saw-fly, Einphytus jiallipes, Prov., was found to 

 severely attack p insies, while another species of the same genus, EjiijJ/.y'jos 

 maculatus, tlie strawberry saw-fly, was unusually abundant. The larcli 

 saw-flies, XematiijS Urichsonii, were numerous in the early ' summer, 

 depositing tlieir eggs, but the larva? were not correspondingly abundant, 

 and it is probable that the increase of this destructive species has 

 attained its maximum in this locality. 



An event of great interest to our students of Entomology was the 

 holding in this city last October of tlie Annual Meeting of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Ont trio, an account of which was duly ])ublished 

 in the Ottawa Naturalist. 



The object of this Rejiort being merely to show what woi'k this 

 J3i-anch has been accomplishing, it is not deemed necessary to go into 

 further details either of an economic or scientiflc character. 



W. II. H ARLINGTON, 



J. FLETCHER, 



T. J. MacLAUGHLIN, 



Fobninrv, ISSS. Loculhrs. 



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