REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN AND CURATOR. 



Mr. J. A. Moffat presented and read his report as follows : 



The number of volumes added to the library during the year is 46, made up thus : Periodicals and 

 reports of Societies received in exchange, which have been bound since last report, 37. Bound volumes 

 which have been received as gifts from various public institutions, 8. By purchase, 1. The whole number 

 on the register is now 1,214. 



The number of volumes issued to local members during the year was 55. 



The Society's collection of native Lepido])tera has received several valuable additions by gift, exchange 

 and capture. This department now numbers 935 «pecies and varieties, mostly taken in Ontario. 



The Toronto list of 1883 contained 9.30 names, many of which were not then, and some of them not 

 yet represented in the Society's drawers. Six or seven years ago when I first turned my attention to the 

 micros there were not a hundred names of these in all our lists, now there are repressntatives of two 

 hundred and twenty-four species in the Society's drawers, and a quantity of unnamed material on hand 

 besides. It is quite evident that our field in Ontario is not half worked, whilst some of those that are 

 engaged in it fail to make their success known. 



The arrangement of the European beetles has been completed, and they occupy fourteen drawers, 

 numbering 952 species. There is a large number of duplicates for disposal ; some of them are very attractive 

 specimens. 



Respectfully" submitted, 



(Signed.) J. Alston Moffat, 



Librarian and Curator. , 



REPORT FROM THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO TO THE 

 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



By the Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, D.C.L., Delegate. 



On behalf of the Entomological Society of Ontario I have the honor to report that 

 it continues to prosper and to perform much useful work. During the past year the 

 ordinary membership was well maintained, while the number of associate members (who 

 are not resident in Canada) was largely increased. 



The Canadian Entomologist, the monthly publication of the Society, continues to 

 attract contributions from all the leading Entomologists of North America, and to main- 

 tain its well established reputation. The 23rd volume was completed in December last, 

 and consisted of 292 pages, instead of the usual 240. Its contributo»'S numbered fifty- 

 one, of whom fourteen were residents of Canada ; thirty-five, of the United States ; one, 

 of England ; and one, of Germany. No less than sixty-one new species of insects were 

 described in its pages, and the life histories of twenty-one species were recounted. Among 

 the more important papers, besides those of a descriptive character, may be mentioned, 

 "Notes on Canadian Rhyncophora," by W. H. Harrington; "The Position of Limenitis 

 Proserpina," by W. H. Edwards; "Notes on Coleoptera," by Dr. J. Hamilton ; "Silver- 

 top in Grass and the Insects which may produce it," by H. Osborn ; " Some Indiana 

 Acridid*," by W. S. Blatchley ; " North American Ohernetida?," and " The Dysderidaj of 

 the United States," by Nathan Banks ; " Some Destructive Locusts of North America," 

 by Lawrence Bruner ; " A Catalogue of the Thysanoura of North America," by A. D. 

 Macgillivray ; and the official report of the meeting in Washington of the Entomologi- 

 cal Club of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 



Five numbers of the 24th volume have been issued during the current year, each of 

 them with an increased number of pages ; fifty-nine new species of insects have already 

 been described, and several papers of more than ordinary value and interest have been 

 published. 



