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not prove anything, as the number taken was so small, although the last 

 two dates are a good deal earlier than I ever remember to have seen a 

 female, but I consider that the captures of the past season afford strong 

 evidence in favor of the opinion that the males of this species appear at 

 least a week or ten days before the females. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



To the Members of the Entomological Society of Ontario : 



Gentlemen, — In accordance with time-honored usage, it devolves 

 upon your retiring President at the close of another year of the existence 

 of our Society to offer you a few remarks bearing upon the objects and 

 interests of our body, or of Entomology in general. 



And first, gentlemen, I desire to congratulate you on the continued 

 prosperity of our Society and the increasing interest felt and manifested in 

 the furtherance of the chief objects we as an organization have in view, 

 viz., the diffusion of practical information in reference to the life history 

 and habits of our insects, so that we may be able to distinguish our friends 

 from our foes, and thus be placed in a position to apply intelligently such 

 remedial measures for the check of insect ravages as experience may 

 suggest to be most practical and effective. 



During the past year circumstances have arisen which have brought 

 our Society more prominently before our people than ever before, notably 

 the fact of the accumulation of that grand collection of Canadian insects 

 which we have prepared and forwarded to the Centennial Exhibition in 

 Philadelphia. My esteemed predecessor, in his annual address last year 

 in Toronto, referred to this proposed work, and expressed himself as 

 confidently anticipating the active co-operation of our members in all 

 sections of our country. The result has more than realized our fondest 

 hopes ; our members entered most heartily into the work, bringing 

 together a collection of Canadian insects far surpassing anything ever 

 before seen. The carrying out of the details of this work was entrusted 

 last year to a special committee, consisting of Messrs. Bethune, Saunders 

 and McMechan, and upon consultation it was resolved to accumulate all 



