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The females of S. scoparia nearctica are rather difficult to dis- 

 tinguish from those of kS. utilis Aldrich. 



Specimens of this subspecies captured by Metz larviposited on 

 dung and refuse. A female received from Richardson (N. J.) was 

 captured on cow manure. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



Annual Meeting. 



The fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society 

 of Ontario was held at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, 

 on Thursday and Friday, November 2nd and 3rd, 1916. The 

 President of the Society, Mr. A. F. Winn, Westmount, P. Q., oc- 

 cupied the chair. The following were present at the meeting: 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, Washington, 

 D. C; Prof. P. J. Parrott, Geneva, N. Y.; Prof. E. M. Walker, 

 University of Toronto; Prof. W. Lochhead, Macdonald College, 

 P. Q.; Prof. W. H. Brittain, Truro, N. S.; Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, 

 Messrs. A. Gibson and J. M. Swaine, Entomological Branch, 

 Ottawa; Messrs. W. H. Harrington and F. W. L. Sladen, Ottawa; 

 Rev. Father Leopold, La Trappe, P. Q.; Mr. F. J. A. Morris, 

 Peterborough; Mr. J. Dunlop, Woodstock; Prof. J. Dearness, 

 London; Mr. W. A. Ross, Vineland Station; Mr. W. E. Biggar, 

 Hamilton; Mr. N. Criddle, Treesbank, Man.; Mr. A. B. Baird, 

 Fredericton, N. B.; Professors C. A. Zavitz, J. E. Howitt, C. J. S. 

 Bethune, L. Caesar, J. W. Crow, D. H. Jones, E. J. Zavitz, and 

 S. B. McCready, Dr. R. E. Stone, Capt. G. J. Spencer, Messrs. 

 A. W. Baker, A. H. Tomlinson, G. H. Unwin, C. R. Klinck, H. R. 

 Fry, G. F. Kingsmill, E. Hearle, A. W. Guild, R. M. Aiton, J. B. 

 McCurry and W. Evans, Ontario Agricultural College. 



Letters expressing regret at their inability to attend the 

 meeting, and containing hearty good wishes for its success, were 

 received from the Minister and Deputy Minister of Agriculture 

 for Ontario, the Minister of Education, and a large number of 

 the leading entomologists in the United States. 



On Thursday morning a meeting of the Council was held, 

 at which the report of the proceedings during the past year was 



