1900] ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 25 



ravages of the scale in this Province ; Mr. G E. Fisher, Official Inspector ; Professor 

 Lochhead of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, and Professor Webster of the 

 Ohio State Agricultural Experiment Station. The proceedings at the Conference are 

 published in full in the 30th Annual Report of the Society, which was presented to the 

 Legislature of Ontario at the opening of its last session. 



The Report also contains a number of valuable and interesting papers and is illus- 

 trated with sixty-six wood-cuts, many of them drawn specially for the purpose, a portrait 

 of Mr. Henry H. Lyman, the retiring President, and a plate representing the structure 

 of a butterfly's wing. Among the papers may be mentioned the following: "The 

 President's Annual Address," by Mr. Henry H. Lyman, Montreal, in which the forma- 

 tion of an entomological union for the authoritative settlement of questions of nomen- 

 clature especially, was strongly advocated ; an account was given of the importance of 

 accurate descriptions of larvae and the difficulties to be surmounted in making theoa ; a 

 short review was made of the principal work of the year in both economic and systpmatic 

 entomology, and some account of recent publications was given. " One Hundred Years 

 of American Entomology," "The Native Home of the San Jose Scale," and " Some Notes 

 on the Larval Habits of the Gray Hair Streak Butterfly," by Prof. F. M. Webster. 

 " Notes on some Insects on Coniferous Shade Trees," " Injurious Insects of the Orchard, 

 Garden and Farm in 1899," " Nature Study Lessons on the Cabbage Butterfly," by Prof. 

 W. Lochhead, Guelph. " Spiders," by the Rev. Or. Fyles, South Quebec. "The Wing 

 Structure of a Butterfly," and " Remarks upon some Cuban Inaectsi," by Mr. J. Alston 

 Moflat, London. " Fatal Bite of an Insect," and " Some. Observations of a Bumble bees' 

 Nest." by Rev. Dr. Bethune, London. " Injurious Insects in Ontario During 1899," by 

 Dr. Fletcher. Ottawa. " The Electric Light as an Attraction to Moths," by Mr. A. 

 Gibson, Ottawa. " Asparagus Beetles," by Mr. W. N. Hutt, Southend. 



The volume contains the reports on the work of the preceding year by the diflferent 

 officers of the Society, the Geological and Microscopical Sections at London, and the 

 iflourishing branches in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto. There are also valuable " Notes 

 on the Insects of the Year," by the Directors, Messrs. Harrington, Evans and Gibson, in 

 their respective territorial divisions, and by Messrs. Moffatt, Bethune and Fyles on 

 the season of 1899. 



The report concludes with an account of the first annual meeting held at Lacombe, 

 Alberta, in November last, of the new and vigorous North- West (Canada) Eatomological 

 Society, which is fortunate in having Mr. Percy B. Gregson, of Waghorn, as its energetic 

 President. The report of its council, the President's address, and papers by Dr. Bethune 

 on " The use of Entomology ;" Dr. Henry George on " The Pocket Gopher," and an ad- 

 dress by Mr. Henry H. Lyman, are published in full. 



The librarian states that the library of the Society now contains "1,627 bound vol- 

 umes, besides a large number of pamphlets and periodicals. The chief additions to the 

 cabinets of insects have come from Manitoba and Cuba. 



Four distinguished entomologists were elected honorary members of the Society, 

 viz : Dr. L. O. Howard, United States Entomologist, Washington, D. 0.; Professor John 

 B. Smith, Sc.D., Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.; Professor F. M. Webster, 

 Wooster, Ohio; and Professor H. F. Wickham, M.A., Iowa City, Iowa. 



The Society has continued to publish its monthly magazine, " The Canadian Eato- 

 mologist," which was begun in 1868, and of which the thirty second volume is now being 

 issued. The thirty-first volume was completed in December last and consisted of 380 

 pages illustrated with six photo-gravure plates and thirty-six wood-cuts ; thirty new 

 genera of insects are described and ninety-two new species The contributors number 

 sixty, of whom sixteen are residents in various pirts of the Dominion, thirty-nine in the 

 United States, and one each in Eagland, Germany, Finland, Brazil and Japan. Among 

 the large number of important papers may be mentioned the descriptions of Coccidse from 

 both North and South America by Professors Cockerell and Tinsley, and Messrs. Ehrhorn, 

 Parrott, King, Hempel (Brazil) and Marlatt. 



Papers on Classification : The Entomophilous Wasps by W. H. Ashmead ; Dragon 

 Flies by Jas. G. Needham ; North American Myrmelionidse by N. Banks ; Coccidse by 

 Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell ; Bees by Ohas. Robertson ; Wasps by S. N. Dunning; descrip- 

 tions of new species : Lepidoptera by Prof. J. B. Smith, Dr. H. Skinner and Dr. H. G. 

 Dyar ; Orthoptera by Dr. Samuel H. Scudder and Jerome McNeill; Hymenopbera by 



