202 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Mr. Fletcher presented his report, read at the meeting of the Royal 

 Society, as follows : — 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATE OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO 

 TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



It affords me much pleasure, as delegate from one of the societies 

 honored with an invitation to send a representative to the meetings of the 

 Royal Society of Canada, to report that during the past year the work of 

 the Entomological Society of Ontario has been vigorously prosecuted, on 

 the same plan as that heretofore followed, with satisfactory and evident 

 results. The monthly organ of the Society, the Canadian Entomolo- 

 gist, has been regularly issued, its pages having been entirely filled with 

 original contributions from members of the Society on scientific and 

 practical Entomology. The volume which closed with the year 1883, No. 

 XV., consisted of 246 pages, and contained a number of papers on de- 

 scriptive Entomology, embracing descriptions of no less than 4 new 

 genera and 67 species of insects new to science ; also papers on practical 

 Entomology, including life-histories of species, some of which have been 

 minutely described in all their stages, and among them many injurious to 

 agriculture. 



With a view to popularize the science of Entomology, and to encourage 

 beginners in the study, a special series of illustrated articles has been 

 published, which we hope will have the effect of increasing the number 

 of observers in this important branch of biology. To further this end, 

 and to systematize the descrtptive work being done in such a manner as 

 to secure uniformity in this department of research, the Council have 

 prepared forms containing instructions for describing insects in their 

 different stages. 



There has also appeared during the year in the Canadian Entomolo- 

 gist much valuable information in reference to the geographical distribu- 

 tion of North American insects. 



For the benefit of those interested in agriculture and horticulture, the 

 Annual Report, which is always devoted to this practical aspect of the 

 study, has recently been published, covering 83 pages, and embracing the 

 Report of the Council, the Treasurer's Statement, the President's Inaugural 

 Address, in which a review is given not only of the work of the Society 

 during the year, but also of most of the important events of interest to 



