TWENTY-THIED ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO 



To the Honorable the Minister of Agriculture : 



Sir, — I have the honor to present herewith the annual report of our Society for its 

 twenty-third .year under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture of Ontario. 



The report contains an account of the proceedings at our annual meeting, which was 

 held in London on the 31st of August and the 1st of September, 1892 — including the 

 election of officers for the ensuing year, the reports of the Council, the Treasurer, fhe 

 Librarian and Curator, the Montreal branch and the various Sections of the Society, the 

 President's annual address and the various papers read at the meeting. 



The President's address will be found to contain references to all the principal insect 

 attacks of the year. Most of these were, happily, not very formidable, but we regard 

 the arrival from the United States of the Horn-fly pest, during the past season, as a very 

 serious matter. In addition, therefore, to the President's remarks upon it, an illustrated 

 account of its life-history and the best methods of dealing with it has been specially pre- 

 pared for the report by Mr. Fletcher. Other papers of a practic aI and more or less 

 popular character are also presented herewith, and will, it is trusted, be found interesting 

 and useful to the general reader. 



Our monthly magazine, the Canadian Entomologist, has been regularly issued during 

 the past year, and has now almost completed its twenty-fourth volume, A larger number 

 of writers than ever before have contributed to its pages, and its high scientific character 

 has been ably maintained. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



W. E. SA QNDERS, 



Secretary. 



