The Entomological Society of Ontario 



ANNUAL MEETING 



The Forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario 

 was held at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, on Thursday and Friday, 

 Noversber 23rd and 24th. During the day meetings the chair was occupied by 

 the President, Dr. E. M. Walker, and during the evening meeting by President 

 Creelman of the College. 



Among those present were Messrs. H. H. Lyman and A. F. Winn, Montreal; 

 Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt and Mr. Arthur Gibson, Ottawa; Prof. J. M. Swaine, Mac- 

 donald College, St. Anne's, P.Q.; Mr. J. D. Evans, Trenton; Dr. E. M. Walker 

 and Mr. J. B. Williams, Toronto ; President Creelman, Professors C. J. S. Bethune, 

 E. J. Zavitz, H. L. Hutt, T. D. Jarvis, J. E. Howitt, Messrs. L. Caesar, Morley Pettit, 

 W. A. McCubbin, and A. W. Baker, of the staff, and a number of students of the 

 Ontario Agricultural College. 



On Thursday morning a meeting of the Council was held, at w^hich the report 

 of the proceedings of the Society during the past year was drawn up, and various 

 matters of interest to its members were discussed. In acceptance of an invitation 

 from Dr. Hewitt it was decided to hold the next annual meeting at the Central 

 Experimental Farm, Ottawa, the date to be fixed upon a later occasion. 



Prof. J. H. Comstock, Cornell Univorsity, Ithaca, N.Y., and Dr. E. P. Felt, 

 State Entomologist of N"ew York, were elected honorary members of the Society. 



Mr. E. Baynes Reed, Meteorological Station, Victoria, B.C., was elected a life 

 member. 



The afternoon meeting was held in the Biological Lecture Eoom, the proceed- 

 ings commencing at two o'clock with the reading of the reports of the directors 

 on the insects of the year in their respective districts. No reports were received 

 from Mr. F. J. A. Morris, of Port Hope, representing Division No. 5, nor from 

 Mr. E. S. Hamilton, of Gait, representing Division No. 6. 



EFFORTS ON INSECTS *0F THE YEAE. 



Division No. 1, Ottawa District — Arthur Gibson. 



Weather conditions in the Ottawa district during the past season were specially 

 favourable for the development of insect life. The latter part of April was very 

 warm for that time, and later in May, from the 20th to the 28th, the temperature 

 was high. The month of June was about normal, but during the first eleven days 

 of July a very hot spell was experienced. On July 3rd the temperature reached 

 97.8 m the shade, and the maximum temperature from July 1st to 12th was 91.4.> 

 Early August, too, was extremely warm, the average maximum temperature for 

 the first eight days being 93.4 in the shade. The season, therefore, was. very ex- 

 ceptional and the continued drought seriously affected crops of all kinds. 



The following notes cover those insects which were most complained of in the 

 Ottawa district during 1911. 



