Entomological Society of Ontario. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The forty-sixth annual meeting of the Society was held at the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, Guelph, on Thursday and Friday, November 4th and 5th. 

 During the day meetings the chair was taken by the President, Mr. Tennyson D. 

 Jarvis, and at the evening session by Dr. Bethune. Amongst those present were 

 Messrs. H. H. Lyman and A. F. Winn, Montreal; Dr. C. G, Hewitt and Mr. 

 Arthur Gibson, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa ; Mr. John D. Evans, Trenton ; 

 Mr. F. J. A. Morris, Trinity College School, Port Hope; Dr. E. M. Walker and 

 Messrs. C. W. Nash and J. B. Williams, Toronto; Mr. E. C. Treherne, Grimsby = 

 President Creelman, Profs. C. A. Zavitz, R. Harcourt, S. B. McCready, C. J. S. 

 Bethune, Messrs. Jarvis, Howitt, Caesar, Eastham, Crow, Klinck, of the staff, 

 and a large number of the students of the Ontario Agricultural College and th£ 

 Macdonald Institute, Guelph. 



Letters expressing regret at their inability to attend were received from Prof. 

 C. C. James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Ontario; Dr. William Saunders, 

 Director of the Dominion Experimental Farms, Ottawa; Eev. Dr. Fyles, Hull, 

 P.Q.; Messrs. Paul Hahn and A. Cosens, Toronto; G. Ohagnon, Montreal; C. E. 

 Grant, Orillia; W. E. Saunders and J F. Calvert, London; R. S. Hamilton, Gait; 

 iProf. W. Lochead and Mr. J. M. Swaine, Macdonald College, P.Q., and others. 



A business meeting of the Council was held in the Biological Building, at 

 which their report was drawn up and various matters discussed. On motion it was 

 decided to contribute the sum of fifty dollars to the fund for the erection of a 

 memorial drinking fountain to the late Dr. James Fletcher at the Experimental 

 Farm, Ottawa. 



In the afternoon the Society met at 2 o'clock in the Biological Lecture room, 

 where there was a goodly attendance of members and students. The firs^ order of 

 proceedings was the reading of the reports of the Directors on the noteworthy 

 insects of the year in their respective districts. Owing to various circmnstances, 

 none were received from Mr. C. E. Grant, of Orillia, representing Division No. 2, 

 nor from Mr. R. S. Hamilton, Gait, of Division No. 6. 



REPORTS ON INSECTS OF THE YEAR. 



Division No. 1. — Ottawa District. By Arthur Gibson", Central 

 Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 



The season of 1909 in the Ottawa District, although cool and late in spring, 

 was an excellent one for growth of all kinds. The rainfall during the whole season 

 was rather above normal, and there was, comparatively speaking, but little hot 

 weather, and this not until the middle of August. Injurious insects, as a whole, 

 were not so troublesome as they were in 1908, 



The following notes probably cover those insects which were most complained 

 of in the District during the past season. 



