1904 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



EEPORT TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



The following- is the report to the Eoyal Society of Canada from the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario, through the liev. C. J. S. Bethune, 

 D.C.L., Delegate. 



The Entomological Society of Ontario has now continued in active op- 

 eration for two score years, and held its fortieth annual meeting in Ottawa 

 ■on the 3rd and 4th of September last. Of the little band of enthusiasts 

 who met in Toronto in April, 1863, for the purpose of organizing the 

 Society, but three now survive, Dr. TVm. Saunders Eev. Dr. Bethune and 

 Mr. E. Baynes Eeed. It is gratifying to note that they have continued to 

 take an active interest in the welfare of the Society from that time to the 

 present. 



"The , Canadian Entomologist," the monthly magazine of the Society, 

 is now in its thirty-sixth year of publication. The volume for 1903 con- 

 tains 352 pages and is illustrated with six full-page plates and fifteen figures 

 in the text, all from original drawings. The contributors number sixty- 

 one and represent Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Lux- 

 emburg and Cuba. The principal articles may be grouped as follows : Des- 

 criptions of new genera, species and varieties in Lepidoptera by Prof. J. 



B. Smith, Dr. H. G. Dyar and Mr. G. M. Dodge; in Hymenoptera by Dr. 

 W. H. Ashmead, Profs. T. D. A. Cockerell and H. T. Fernald, Messrs. J. 



C. Bradley, A. W. Morrill, J. C. Crawford, E. A. Cooley, C. Eobertson, 

 Eev. T. W. Fyles and Dr. S. Graenicher; in Diptera by Messrs. D. W. 

 •Coquillett, F. V. Theobald, and J. S. Hine; in Coleoptera by Prof. H. F. 

 Wickham and Mr. C. Schaeffer; in Hemiptera-Homoptera by Prof. Cocker- 

 ell, Messrs. A. W. Morrill, E. A. Cooley, A. L. Quaintance, G. B. King, 

 E. B. Ball and W. T. Clarke; in Hemiptera-Heteroptera by Mr. C. Steven- 

 son; and in Orpthoptera by Messrs. E. M. Walker and E. S. G. Titus. 

 Thirty-nine new genera are described, 106 new species and eight new vari- 

 eties and sub-species. 



Life-histories more or less complete, are given of the following insects : 

 Crocigrapha Normani and several Canadian species of Apantesis by Mr. 

 Arthur Gibson; the strawberry Aleyrodes (A. Pacl'ardi) by Mr. A. W. 

 Morrill ; Hydroccia appassionuta found boring in Sarracenia by Mr. H. 

 Bird; the Apple Bud-borer (Steoanopti/cha pyricolana) by Prof. E. D. Sand- 

 erson; Mamestra laudahiJis by Dr. H. G. Dyar; and several species of Mos- 

 quitoes by Mr. F. V. Theobald. 



Papers on Classification. Nomenclature and systematic Entomology; 

 the Wa3ps of the super-family Vespoidea by Dr. Ashmead; Arctic Hymen- 

 optera by Mr. W. H. Harington; Nomadinae and Epeolinse by Mr. C. 

 Eobertson; Prof. Aldrich and Mr. Coquillett on Culex; Mr. J. C. Bradley 

 on the genus Platylabus ; Mr. E. M. "Walker on the genus Podisma in East- 

 ern North America; Dr. Dyar and Mr. A. Bacot on Aplia tau; Mrs. Fer- 

 nald on Cocoidee ; Dr. Fletcher and Prof. Grote on Lepidoptera ; Prof. 

 Cockerell and Mr. Titus on Hymenoptera. 



Collecting notes, and papers on the geographical distribution of species, 

 ore given by Prof. A. D. Hopkins on Forest Insect Explorations; Mr. 

 Coquillett on the Phorid genus jEnigmatias in Denmark and Arizona; Mr. 

 G. B. King on Eecords of Coccidse; Dr. Fyles on Quebec Diptera; Mr. J. 



D. Evans on the Coleoptera of North-Western Canada; Mr. W. T. Clarke 

 ^r-i Calif crnian Aphididae; Butterfly notes from Toronto by Mr. J. B. Wil- 



