124 The Ottawa Naturalist. [October 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The Fortieth Annual Meeting- of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario was held in Ottawa, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 

 the 3rd, 4th and 5th Sept., 1903. Among those present were Prof. 

 W. Lochhead, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, President 

 of the Society ; J. D. Evans, Vice-President, Trenton ; W. E. 

 Saunders, London, Secretary ; Dr. L. O. Howard, U. S. Ento- 

 mologist, Washington, D.C. ; Rev. Dr. Bethune, London ; H. H. 

 Lyman, A. F. Winn, C. Stevenson, G. A. Moore, and A. E. Norris, 

 Montreal ; J. B. Williams, Toronto ; Dr. James Fletcher, Arthur 

 Gibson, C. H. Young, W. H. Harrington, Dr. Blackadar, Dr. C. 

 Guillet, T. J. McLaughlin, and other residents of Ottawa. 



On Thursday morning a meeting of the Council was held, and 

 during the afternoon, beginning at 2.30, the reports of the Council, 

 District Directors, Delegate to the Royal Society, and of the Mon- 

 treal, Toronto and Quebec Branches of the Society, were presented. 

 The reports of the Directors dealt chiefly with outbreaks of 

 injurious insects in the different Districts represented, while those 

 from the Branches reviewed the work carried on during the year. 



The first paper on the programme was one by Rev. Dr. 

 Bethune, of London, Ont., " A menace to the Shade trees of Lon- 

 don, Ont." This made mention of the presence, particularly on 

 maple trees, of millions of the Cottony Maple Scale. These insects 

 occurred in great numbers along the lower sides ot the branches, 

 resembling large woolly deposits on the trees, being very unsightly 

 and at the same time injurious. Mr, H. H. Lyman, of Montreal, 

 read a paper "Two Remarkable Aberrations (Lepidoptera)," in 

 which he recorded the capture in Montreal of a most beautiful 

 form oi Spilosomavtrgimca, which was clearly and definitely banded 

 with black, as in Colias philodice, and one of Melitcea phaeton^ 

 which lacked the white spots above. A paper " Additions to 

 Quebec Syrphidas," by Mr. Gus. Chagnon, was presented, and 

 gave interesting new records of the collection in that province of 

 flies belonging to this family. 



On Thursday evening in the Assembly Hall of the Normal 

 School, the President, Prof. W. Lochhead, delivered his inaugural 

 address, " The Progress of Entomology in Ontario." This was a 

 practical address, very suitable to the occasion, and contained 



