ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



EWTOMOLOaiCAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



1872, 



INCLUDING A REPOKT ON SOME OF THE NOXIOUS, BENEFICIAL AND 

 COMMON INSECTS OF THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO. 



PREPARED FOR THE HONOURABLE THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. ON 



BEHALF OF THE SOCIETY. 



BY 



THE REV. C. J. S. BETHUNE, M.A., 



Head Master of Trinity College School, Port Hope ; President of the Eictomological Society of 

 Ontario ; and Editor uf the Canadian Entomologist ; 



WILLIAM SAUNDERS, 



Vice-President of the Entomological Society of Ontario; and 



EDMUND BAYNES REED, 



Secretary-Treasurer of tlie Entomological Society of Ontario. 



REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PROVINCE OF 

 ONTARIO, FOR THE YEAR 1872. 



To the Honourable the Commissioner of Agriculture, — 



Sir, — In compliance with our Statute of Incorporation, I have the honour to submit 

 the Report of the Entouiolosiical Society of Ontario for the year 1872. 



The annual meeting; of the .Society was this year held at the City of Hamilton, when 

 the various reports were read, and the oflBcers for 1873 duly elected. 



I also beg leave to submit herewith a Report on some of the Noxious, Beneficial, and 

 Common Insects of this Province, which has been prepared by the Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, 

 Mr. William Saunders and myself on behalf of the Society. 



The publication of the C.\n.M)I.\n Entomologist is still regularly continued, and the 

 value of its pages has been greatly enhanced by the contributions of Entomologists both on 

 this continent and in P]ngland, whose learned researches have rendered them authorities in 

 their several branches of this science. 



