THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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 opportunity — 

 which 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 resist- 

 ance 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 rapcz), to which I also referred last year, has been rapidly extend- 

 ing 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 



