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Ttoiigli perhaps not doing much damitge, the Walking-sticks were to 

 be met with very often and lots of people brought them to me, who before 

 would have been ready to swear that there was no such insect in existence. 



Grasshoppers were very plentiful late in the season and devoured a lot 

 of the leaves which were left after the drouth. 



Late in September immense numbers of the Buprestid (Chrysobothris 

 femorata) were running over the cement walk of the main street and were 

 crushed lay pedestrians. I tried to trace the source of the supply but could 

 not. 



The Fall Web-worm was very much in evidence. I also noticed the 

 remarkable number of Halisidota and Acronycta or Apatela caterpillars; 

 they were all over the fences and until quite late in October. I took two 

 specimens of Telea polyphemus in August, quite an unusual occurrence. 



I have only added one new moth to my locals this years, viz., PJagodis 

 l:eutzinzii. 



Division No. 3. — Toronto District. By J. B. Williams, Toronto. 



The Tussock Moth still continues to do a good deal of damage to the 

 shade trees in Toronto, though they have not been quite so numerous this 

 summer, as far as I have observed, as they were a year ago. The compara 

 tively cool weather may have acted to some extent as a check upon their 

 numbers, or possibly parasities are beginning to get the upperhand, and we 

 may see their gradual diminution by natural causes, during the next few 

 years. They have certainly appeared for some time past to be having every- 

 thing their own way. 



The Tent caterpillars have been numerous round Toronto, and I saw a 

 good many of them in the country round Lake Simcoe. 



The Codling Moth has been very destructive to many apple trees in the 

 city gardens. In the same orchard some trees have hardly been touched by 

 them, while others have had almost every apple more or less injured by the 

 ravages of this injurious pest. 



Though the Walking-Stick insects were very numerous last year at 

 Niagara Glen and swarms of them had stripped several large trees of their 

 foliage, I failed, this year, to find a single specimen on two or three occasions 

 when I yisited the place. What can have been the cause of their sudden 

 disappearance ? 



Division No. 4. — East York District. By C. W. Nash, Toronto. 



The past season seems to have been an unfavorable one for the develop- 

 ment of most forms of insect life. Butterflies w^ere particularly scarce, even 

 the common species which usually swarm about the garden and over fields 

 of blossoming clover, being conspicuous by their absence. I did not see 

 one Monarch Butterfly (Anosia archippus) until the first week in August, 

 after which a few were noticed every day, but so far as I could observe, 

 there was no congregation prior to migration, and no regular flight in Sep- 

 tember such as usually takes place along the shore of Lake Ontario from 

 east to west, when the insects are on their journey to the south. On the 

 other hand many were here later than usual ; a few having remained until 

 October, 5th, when the last were seen. 



Cosmopepla camifex. — During the past few years this beautiful little 

 hemiptera has teen gradually increasing in numbers until in June, 1907, it 

 became enormously abundant on Aquilegia, Antirrhinum and Pentstemon 



