Entomological Society of Ontario. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The forty-second annual meeting of tlie Society was held, by kind invit- 

 ation of President Creelman, at tlie Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, on 

 Wednesaay and Thursday, October 18tli and 19tli. Owing to the unavoidable 

 absence of Mr. John D. Evans, President of the Society, the chair was taken 

 by the Vice-President, Dr. James Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist and Bot- 

 anist, Ottawa. Among those present were: Rev. Dr. Eyles, Quebec; Mr. H. 

 H. Lyman, Montreal; Mr. C. H. Young, Hurdman's Bridge; Mr. Arthur 

 Gibson, Ottawa; Mr. C. C. James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for On- 

 tario; Messrs. J. B. Williams and C. W. Nash, Toronto; Mr. G. E. Fisher, 

 Burlington; Rev. Dr. Bethune, London; President Creelman, Professors 

 Lochhead, McCready, Sherman, Hutt, Reed, Messrs. Zavitz, Barlow, Jarvis, 

 Hotson, Klugh, and others, Guelph. There were also present a large number 

 of the young women students from the Macdonald Institute and of young 

 men from the Agricultural College. At some of the meetings the attendance 

 was over onri hundred. The Society was also favored with the presence of 

 Professor John B. Smith, State Entomologist of New Jersey, and a Professor 

 in Rutger's College, one of our honorary members. 



During the first morning a business meeting of the Council was held, at 

 which the Treasurer's report was received and adopted. Application was 

 made by a number of gentlemen belonging to the Agricultural College and 

 the Wellington Field Naturalists' Club for the formation of a Guelph Branch 

 of the Entomological Society of Ontario. The request was very heartily ac- 

 ceded to, and the Branch was inaugurated with an initial list of twenty-four 

 members. 



Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, 

 Colo., an eminent entomologist, especially distinguished by his work in the 

 Coccidfp and Hymenoptera, was unanimously elected an honorary member. 



The members of the Society from a distance were very hospitably enter- 

 tained at luncheon by President Creelman. 



In the afternoon Dr. Fletcher took the chair at 2.30 o'clock, and called 

 upon the Directors of the Society to read their reports on the noteworthy in- 

 sects of the year in their respective divisions. The reports for the first three 

 Divisions were read, and Mr. Fisher explained his inability to prepare a re- 

 port for Division 4 owing to the pressure of business during the summer 

 months. Prof. McCready also had no report to make for Division 5, as he 

 bad removed from London to Guelph before the opening of the season, but his 

 place was filled by Dr. Bethune. 



REPORTS ON INSECTS OF THE YEAR. 



Division No. 1 — Ottawa District. By C. H. Young, Hurdman's Bridge. 



Like the two preceding years, the season of 1905 has not, in the Ottawa 



District, been marked by any serious outbreaks of injurious kinds of insects. 



Early in the season the Red-backed cutworm, Paragrotis ochrogaster, was 



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