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The reports of the Montreal Branch, and of the Rev. T. W. Fyles, delegate to the 

 Royal Society of Canada, are presented herewith. The accounts of the Treasurer, and 

 the reports of the Librarian and Curator are also submitted. 



The Council desire to express their satisfaction at the manner in which the Curator 

 has discharged his dutias during the past year, in the care and arrangement of the 

 library and cabinets, and of the rooms of the Society. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



CHARLES J. S. BETHUNE, 



Pi'esident. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



The President cordially welcomed all present and proceeded to deliver the annual 

 address upon the chief topics of entomological interest which had taken place during the 

 year. 



Gentlemen. — I have much pleasure in welcoming you all to the annual meeting of 

 our Entomological Society. I am sorry that we have been unable to hold it at an 

 earlier and more favourable period of the year, and that we should thus be debarred from 

 having an outing together, like that of our memorable field-day last year. I was unfor- 

 tunately laid up with a severe illness during the latter part of the summer, and my 

 colleagues thought that it would not be advisable to hold this meeting without your 

 President ; it was consequently postponed to this late date. Owing to my being confined 

 to my room for so long a time, I can only give you a meagre account of the principal 

 events of the year in the entomological world. In doing so let me first refer to the most 

 noteworthy injuries caused by insects during the past season. 



The most serious insect pest of the year to the fruit grower in Canada was " the Eye" 

 spotted bud moth," {Tmetocera ocellana, Schiff). This tiny insect (Fig. 1) has 

 become very abundant of late and very widespread throughout the 

 country. In Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia it has 

 been very injurious to the apple. The crop of fruit this year has been so 

 unusually large that the loss occasioned by this insect has not, perhaps, 

 been much noticed, but it is much to be feared that if it should be let 

 alone to increase and multiply' undisturbed, its ravages will become very Fig. 1- 



serious and very conspicuous in the future. The object of attack, as the 

 name of the insect indicates, is the opening bud of the apple ; this is pierced by the young 

 caterpillar, which forms a habitation for itself by drawing together portions of a dried and 

 blackened leaf and lining them with silk to form a protecting case. As it grows lai-ger, 

 the worm often destroys a whole cluster of blossoms or of young fruit by drawing them 

 together with silken threads and devouring the stems and foliage to such an extent that 

 they wither and die. It occasionally also eats into the extremity of the twig from which 

 the blossom proceeds, and by boring into it causes the destruction of the bloom and all hope 

 of subsequent fruit. The caterpillar is of a dull brownish colour, with a few short hairs on 

 its body proceeding from tiny warts. It usually becomes fully grown in June and forms 

 its chrysalis in its larval case, from which the moth emerges in July. This is a pretty 

 little creature, ashen gray in colour with a broad whitish band across the middle of the 

 anterior wings. Its specific name is derived from the two little eye-like spots on each of 

 these wings. A good deal may be done to check the spread of this insect by pulling off 

 and crushing the clusters of withered leaves containing the caterpillars, but the best 

 remedy is no doubt the spraying of the trees in early spring with a weak mixture of Paris 

 green and water, not more than one quarter of a pound of the poison to fifty gallons of 

 water, but it would be well to begin with a lower strength than this for fear of injuring 

 the foliage of the trees. 



