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It was in 1911, in Paris, that I was first advised to get his books. I got the 

 ten volumes; I even got twelve — ten volumes of the whole work complete, and 

 two other volumes of the 'Souvenirs, just extracts. I remember that coming 

 back on tlie boat I used to take out the books and read them on the deck just as 

 a novel or anything like that. The descriptions are so fine; it is such rich 

 literature. You have no idea unless you get into those books what a man he is 

 as an observer. There are so many instances of his impatience as has been 

 said just now, that one is really astounded to see the work that has been done 

 by him. 



Prof. Dearness: Our President remarked just now that Fabre was the 

 greatest of the entomological observers. I think he said that he regarded Fabre 

 as the outstanding example. The work of the blind observer, Francois Huber, 

 who studied so profoundly the habits and life history of the honey bee has seemed 

 to me the most marvellous. I agree that the style in which much of the scientific 

 literature written is not of the finest quality, but our Society can congratulate 

 itself on having a member who adorns the expressions of his observations with 

 as much grace as does Fabre — I refer to our honoured member. Dr. Fyles. ^Vho 

 can take up one of the Entomological Eeports and read a paper from his pen 

 without feeling how very graceful and interesting are the expressions of his 

 original observations. 



Prof. Lochhead's reference to the depredations on ithe larvae recalls an 

 interesting experience of my own. I had 100 or more nearly full-grown silk- 

 worm larvae in a suit-box kept where there was no reason to fear incursions of 

 ants. One morning on returning to remove the frass an hour or two after the 

 larvae had been fed, I found an army of large brown ants — species of Lasius, I 

 suppose — tugging at the mutilated silk-worms and struggling to carry them away. 

 So many of them were either killed outright or so badly injured that not one 

 in ten of them survived the attack of the ants. A single ant probably discovered 

 the box, and then retired to summon and lead tlie whole ant colony to the plunder. 



INSECTS TNJURTOUS IN SOUTHERN QUEBEC, 1914. 



C. E. Petch, Entomological Branctt, Ottawa. 



This year various species of caterpillars were very injurious- to the foliage 

 and fruit: Among the leaf eaters the tent-caterpillars Avere very serious pests again 

 this year over the entire Province of Quebec. Some hymenopterous parasites were 

 observed attacking the pupae. A considerable number of egg masses, have been 

 observed and unless they are parasitized, the outlook for 1915 is serious. The 

 lime-tree- caterpillar, leaf-roller, bud moth, spring and fall canker worms were 

 all very injurious in Huntingdon County. Late in September, the Yellovst- 

 NECKED Apple-tree Caterpillar (Datana ministra) was found defoliating bass- 

 wood trees at>Howick, Que. The larvae of the common Cabbage Butterfly 

 (Ppntia rapce) were very plentiful wherever cabbages were grown. Outbreaks 

 of the Army-w^orm {Leucania unipuncta) were reported from Pontiac and 

 Porlneuf Counties. 



Numerous young apples were attacked by a green caterpillar, which 

 ate lar^e holes in them, generally to the core. The caterpillars were a little over 

 an inch long, naked, and light greenish-yellow with a light stripe down the middle 



