32 REPORT OF No. 19 



The library has been added to by the receipt of the Reports from New 

 York State, and also the Volumes of the Canadian Entomologist, which 

 have been bound. 



At the annual meeting at Guelph, the Branch was represented by Mr. 

 Lyman, and Mr. Winn was elected as this year's delegate to the Eoyal 

 Society of Canada. 



The treasurer's report, submitted herewith, shows a balance to our 

 credit of |49.36. 



Respectfully submitted on behalf of the Council, 



A. E. NoRRis, President. 



The reports of the treasurer and of the curator and librarian were then 

 submitted and adopted. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : — 



President — Geo. A, Moore. 



Vice-President — E. C. Barwick. 



Sec'y.-Treas.— A. F. Winn. 



Curator and Librarian — L. Gibb. 



Council — G. Chagnon, H. H. Lyman, G. R. Southee and E. Denny. 



REPORT OF THE QUEBEC BRANCH OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The ninth annual meeting of the Quebec Branch of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario was held at the house of the President on the 13th day 

 of October, 1906. 



There were present : The Rev. Dr. Fyles in the chair, Mrs. Fyles, Mrs. 

 J. H. Simmons, Miss Fyles, Miss Bickell, Miss M. Johnstone, Miss Freeman, 

 Miss Hamel, Mr. J. H. Simmons, Lt. -Colonel Lindsay, secretary-treasurer, 

 and two guests. , 



Dr. Fyles congratulated the members on their re-assembling after the 

 sum7ner holidays. He then told of an excursion he had made through the 

 bolder townships in the tracks of the Larch saw-fly, Nematus Erichsonii, 

 Hartig. He learned that in all that section of the country there was not a 

 first-growth tamarack remaining, and that most of the tamarack of a later 

 i^rowth were destroyed. A few young trees of the kind were growing in 

 places; but a new growth of balsam, poplar, spruce and birch, varying with 

 the nature of the soil, was occupying the broad stretches of land in which 

 the tamarack formerly flourished. 



Dr. Fyles exhibited a fine nest of the wasp Vespa arenaria, Fabr., which 

 he had brought from the grounds of Mr. George Ramsay, of Little Village, 

 P.Q. It had been built in an open field an inch or so from the ground and 

 was supported by a few stout bents of grass and a small stem of Aster cordi- 

 folius, L. It resembled a round stone or a large puff-ball, and it contained 

 a surprisingly large number of cells. 



While he was examining it at Mr. Ramsay's residence, a fine female — 

 the last of its occupants — burst from her cell and was quickly transferred to 

 the cyanide bottle. This was on the 9th of September. The insect was a 

 beautiful object, jet black with pure white markings; but when it was set up 

 it soon lost much of its beauty : it had become greasy, saturated with oily 

 matter. As the accumulated fat of the bear is its support through its long 

 winter repose, so, probably, this super-abundance of oil in the female wasp is 

 the provision of the insect until the opening spring. 



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