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prominent wart, tipped with yellow; and, a little behind it, are two small black 

 warts. On the top of the thirteenth segment is a small black wart, faced with 

 yellow. Along the purplish sideband, from segment three to segment twelve, there 

 is a row of creamy -white, pointed, warts; and along the base, above the legs, from 

 segment two to segment thirteen, on either side, is a row of similar, but smaller 

 warts. 



The spiracles are conspicuous, large, creamy-white, bordered with black. 



The claspers are remarkably large. They are surmounted by a large triangular 

 shield, edged on two sides with clay-yellow, and dotted with white. The claspers 

 are bordered and dotted in the same way. 



The creature is sparsely set, with light, brownish-yellow, bristles. 



Pelopaeus cementarius, Drury. Adjoining the Matthews' Factory at Hull 

 there is an electrical sub-station, belonging to the Hull Electric Company. In 

 this station, three yards from a window, a telephone is affixed to a wall. One day, 

 in August last, the man who occasionally visits this sub-station found that the 

 telephone was out of order, and gave notice of this at the head office. The super- 

 intendent, Mr. Alfred Gale, went to see what was wrong, and, on opening the 

 magneto-box, found a number of Mud- Wasps at work, piling up their cells upon 

 the bar, which terminates on the outside of the box in the hook, or fork, in which 

 the receiver is placed. Within the box, the spring, under the bar, was not strong 

 enough to raise the additional burden; and consequently, no pressure was brought 

 to bear upon the contact points, and the telephone failed to work. 



The wasps found ingress to the magneto-box through the slot in which the bar 

 plays. 



REPOET OF THE COUNCIL. 



The Council of the Entomological Society of Ontario begs to present its report 

 for the year 1909-1910. 



The forty-sixth annual meeting of the Societ}'^ was held at the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, Guelph, on Thursday and Friday, November 4th and 5th, 1909. 

 There were a goodly number present from a distance as well as a large attendance 

 of students and others connected with the College. 



During the first afternoon the reports of the Directors on the insects of the 

 year were read and discussed, papers were read by Mr. L. Caesar on " A few insects 

 of the season " ; by Mr. A. Gibson on " Nests of the Brown-tail Moth in importa- 

 tions of French nursery stock " ; by Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt on " The large Larch 

 Sawfiy"; by Mr. E. C. Treherne on "Nursery work in Ontario," and by Mr. 

 F. J. A. Morris on " Some Guests at the Banquet of Flowers." In the evening a 

 public meeting was held in Massey Hall, which was well filled with members and 

 students from both the Agricultural College and the Macdonald Institute. A very 

 interesting lecture on " House Flies and their Allies," illustrated with excellent 

 lantern pictures, was delivered by Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, the newly appointed 

 Dominion Entomologist. 



The morning and afternoon of the second day were occupied Avith the reading 

 of the reports of the various branches and officers of the Society, and a number of 

 papers on a variety of stibjects, which have all been published in the Annual Eeport 

 for 1909. This volume, the fortieth of the series, was issued in May last and con- 

 tained 144 pages, illustrated with 6 full-page plates, 39 figures in the text and a 

 portrait of the late Dr. William Brodie. In addition to the papers already men- 



