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leges, and has abundant opportunities for impressing the agricultural students and 

 teachers-in-training with the importance of Nature Studies. There is its very valu- 

 able library, and its extensive collections of biological specimens. One of the 

 founders of the Society, the venerated Dr. Bethune, is Professor of Entomology and 

 Zoology on the College staff. 



The Society held its forty-eighth annual meeting on the 23rd and 24th of 

 November last, under the presidency of Dr. Edmund M. Walker, Lecturer in 

 Zoology in the University of Toronto. The following is a list of the subjects brought 

 under the notice of the meeting. The papers will appear in full in the forthcoming 

 Annual Eeport of the Society : — 



Reports on the Insects of the Year: 



Division 1. Ottawa District, Arthur Gibson. 



Division 2. Orillia District, C. E. Grant. 



Division 3. Toronto District, A. Cosens. ^ 



Division 4. East Toronto, C. W. Nash. 



Division 7. Niagara District, R. C. Treherne. 

 " Some Work of the Division of Entomology," C. G. Hewitt. 

 " Insects of the Season in Ontario," L. Caesar. 

 " Notes on the Season of 1911," T. W. Fyles. 

 " Insect Scourges of Mankind," C. G. Hewitt. 

 Annual address of the President, E. M. Walker. 



" Some Injurious Forest Insects at De Grassi Point, Lake Simcoe," E. M. Walker. 

 " Thrips Affecting Oats," C. G. Hewitt. 

 " The Stream," T. W. Fyles. 

 " Blister Beetles," A. Gibson. 



" A Hymenopterous Parasite of Hepialus Thule," A. F. Winn. 

 " Injurious Insects of the Year, Macdonald College, Ont," J. M. Swaine. 

 " Catalogue of Canadian Insects," C. G. Hewitt. ' 

 " Some Notes on Hepialus Hyperboreus," H. Dawson. 

 " The Entomological Record," A. Gibson. 



The Canadian Entomologist, the Society's monthly organ, has now reached 

 the 44th year of its publication. The volume for 1911 contains 429 pages. It is 

 illustrated Avith 4 plates, and 28 figures in the text. Its contributors were 59 in 

 number, one each from Honolulu, Hawaii, and Brisbane (Australia), and the 

 remainder from various parts of Canada and the United States of America. 



Many new species are described in the volume, and much information is given 

 on the distribution, habits, and life histories of insects in all orders. 



Eeviews of books and pamphlets of recent issue have been given promptly, thus 

 calling attention to the work of Entomologists outside of the sphere of magazine 

 articles. 



The whole respectfully submitted, 



Thomas W. Fyles. 



ANNUAL ADDEESS OF THE PEESIDENT. 

 Edmund M. Walker, B.A., M.B., Toronto. 



I have the honour of welcoming you to the 49th Annual Meeting of the Ento- 

 mological -Society of Ontario and the sixth meeting held at Ottawa. 



It is nine years since one of our annual meetings has been held at a distance 

 from the Society's headquarters in Guelph, and although we regret that many of our 

 Guelph friends are unable to be with us on this occasion, we rejoice to see the faces 

 of other members who would have found it impossible to attend the meeting had we 



