Proposed for Butterflies ; " " Eecherches sur les Moeurs des Fourmis Indigenes," by 

 P. Huber ; "Departibus quibus insecta spiritus ducunt," by Christianus Loewe, all of 

 which were generously donated by >S. H. Scudder, Esq., of Cambridge, U. S. " Entomo- 

 logical Contributions," Nos. 1, 2, and 3, also kindly donated by J. A. Lintner, Esq., of 

 Albany, New York, and vols. 1, 2, and 3, " Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Sciences." 



"Notes on the North American Lepidoptera contained in the British Museum ; " 

 " List of the North American Platyptirices, Attaei, etc., etc., with Notes ; " " List of the 

 North American Noctuida;," two numbers, all of which were generously given by Aug. 

 E. Grote, Esq., Buffalo, New York. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



WiLLiAJi CoupER, Geo. Jno. Bowles, 



Chairman. Fresideni. 



G. B. Pearson, 



Secretary- Treasurer. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



To tJie Members of the Entomological Society of Ontario : — 



Gentlemen, — In accordance with time-honoured usage, it devolves upon your retiring 

 President at the close of another year of the existence of our Society to offer you a few 

 remarks bearing upon the objects and interests of our body, or of Entomology in general. 



And first, gentlemen, I desire to congratulate you on tlie continued prosperity of our 

 Society and the increasing interest felt and manifested in the furtherance of the chief 

 objects we as an organization have in view, viz., the diffusion of practical information in 

 reference to the life history and habits of our insects, so that we may be able to distin- 

 guish our friends from our foes, and thus be placed in a position to apply intelligently 

 such remedial measures for the check of insect ravages as experience may suggest to be 

 most practical and effective. 



During the past year circumstances have arisen which have brought our Society more 

 prominently before our people than ever before, notably the fact of the accumulation of 

 that grand collection of Canadian insects which we have prepai-ed and forwarded to the 

 Centennial Exhibition in Philapelphia. My esteemed predecessor, in his annual address 

 last year in Toronto, referred to this proposed work, and expressed himself as confidently 

 anticipating the active co-operation of our members in all sections of our country. The 

 result has more than realized our fondest hopes ; our members entered most heartily into 

 the work, bringing together a collection of Canadian insects far surpassing anything ever 

 before seen. The canyiug out of the details of this work was entrusted last year to a 

 special committee, consisting of JNiessrs. Bethune, Saunders and McMechan, and upon 

 consultation it was resolved to accumulate all the material for this collection at the Society's 

 headquarters in London, and there make such selections from the insects sent as might 

 seem desirable. All our members in London who hafl collections, freely placed them 

 eatuely at the disposal of the committee, while many of those resident in other localities 

 throughout the country expressed their readiness to contribute anything or everything 

 in their power to fill up blanks in the desired series of specimens. 



As is usual in such cases, the bulk of the work of arranging, classifying and labelling 

 specimens fell upon a few individuals. It affords me much pleasure to have the oppor- 

 tunity of naming especially one who has laboured most assiduously and has contributed 

 more than any other person towards the success of this enterprise ; I allude to my esteemed 

 friend, Mr. Johnson Pettit, of Grimsby, who arranged the entire collection of Coleoptera 

 and freely contrilnUed from his own stores — the accumulation of years — a large propor- 

 tion of the specimens. The extreme neatness and care manifested by him in the mount- 

 ing and arrangement of the insects has been the admiration of all, and some idea of the 



