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lu the Notes of the Meeting, this sentence, which bears upon my subject, 

 appears: "Your Council strongly imj)ress on the members to use their influence 

 in promoting the knowledge of the importance of the study of entomology, more 

 especially with agriculturists and horticulturists, in order to enable them to 

 check the ravages of the numerous insects injurious to vegetation." 



In the notes of the fourth Annual Meeting of the Branch, the name of Mr. 

 H. H. Lyman appears as one of the Council. At the eighth Annual Meeting he 

 was elected President, and again on the fifteenth. 



The name of Mr. A. P. Winn appears in the sixteenth report of the Branch 

 as one of the Council, and in the seventeenth as Secretary -Treasurer. 



Both Mr. Lyman and Mr. Winn have been zealous and helpful supporters of 

 the Branch to this day; and they and their fellow-workers appear to have faithfully 

 acted upon the suggestion of their Council above quoted. 



At the close of his annual address as President of the Entomological Society 

 of Ontario, Dr. Wm. Saunders, in 1883, made use of the following words : — 



"Who will press to the front, and fill the vacant places in our ranks?" Tlie 

 question has an air of sadness like that in the old song: — 



"Who will fill our vacant places? 



Who will sing our songs to-night?" 



"One by one," continued Mr. Saunders, ''our busy workers pass away." 



Yes, William Couper, (I will speak only of those whom I personally knew.) 

 G, J. Bowles, F. B. Caulfielcl, W. D. Shaw, J. M. Denton, Very Rev. Dean Innis, Rev. 

 Vincent Clementi, J. Alston Moffat, Captain Gamble Geddes, J. A. Balkwill, Prof. 

 J. H. Panton, Dr. W. Brodie, and Dr. James Fletcher have all passed the "Great 

 Divide," but they have left pleasant memories behind them. 



"But," concluded Dr. Saunders, "our favourite branch of natural science still 

 lives, and will continue to assert its increasing importance, and to confer its benefits 

 on all succeeding generations." 



While our Society continues to bring forward, or attract to itself, such able 

 men as are now filling its offices, and carrying on its affairs, its influence with the 

 public will not abate. x4.nd now with an expression of a hearty wish that these men 

 may have wider and wider opportunities for making known the wonders of the 

 Insect World, the benefits we derive from our Insect Friends, and the best means 

 of resisting the attacks of our Insect adversaries, I bring this, my seventieth con- 

 tribution to the Reports of the Society, to a close. 



THE CHINCH BUG IN ONTARIO. 



H. F. Hudson, Division of Entomology, Ottawa. 



The present brief paper emhodies the result of an investigation into the 

 Chinch Bug situation in Western Ontario which was carried on during the past 

 summer, and for general interest I have included the most recent methods which 

 have been adopted in Illinois with such success to combat this well-known pest. 

 Probably no single insect pest has caused such fatal results to the staple grains 

 of America than has this one. Investigation work was hegun in the middle of 



