142 ' THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Secretary-Treasurer and Librarian — E. Baynes Reed, London. 



Council- -Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Port Hope ; J. Fletcher, Ottawa ; 

 Rev. F. W. Fyles, Cowansville ; W. Couper, Montreal ; J. M. Denton, 

 London ; J. Alston Mofifatt, Hamilton ; W. H. Harrington, Ottawa. 



Editor of Canadian Etitotnologist — Wm. Saunders. 



Editing Committee— K&w. C. J. S. Bethune, J. M. Denton, E. B. Reed. 



Auditors — H. B. Bock and C. Chapman, London. 



The President then delivered his annual address, for which he was 

 unanimously tendered a vote of thanks, accompanied with a request to 

 publish it in the Canadian Entomologist. 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 



Gentlemen, — For the first time in the history of our Society, we meet 

 within the limits of the Province of Quebec. Although belonging to 

 Ontario, and sustained in our work mainly by the liberal aid granted us 

 by the Government of Ontario, our sphere of usefulness extends through- 

 out the length and breadth of this great Dominion, and also across the 

 lines into the United States. We have long had an active branch of our 

 Society in Montreal, comprising members who have materially aided in 

 the advancement of Entomological science, and now at this particular 

 juncture, when so large a body of distinguished scientists were to honor 

 Montreal with their presence, and among them many noted Entomologists, 

 no time, it was thought, could be more opportune than this in which to 

 hold the annual meeting of our Society, and by the kind permission of the 

 Hon. S. C. Wood, Commissioner of Agriculture for the Province of 

 Ontario, we are privileged to meet here on this occasion. 



During the past season that dreaded pest, the Hessian Fly, has pre- 

 vailed to a considerable extent in Ontario. My attention was first called 

 to it this season during the last week in July, when the grain was ripening. 

 On visiting wheat fields in the vicinity of London, I found the insect very 

 prevalent, and in some instances I believe the injury to the crop must 

 have been fully twenty per cent. The affected stalks were lying on the 

 ground, and the grain in the heads imperfectly developed ; on pulling 

 these they would often break at the point where the insect had been at 

 work, that is, about the base of the first or second joint. On examining 

 the affected stalks, the insect was found to be in what is known as the 



