4 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN AND CURATOR. 



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



I be» leave to submit the follosving report for the year ending 31st of August, 1893 : 



Seventy volumes have been added to the Library during the past year. 



Several bound volumes were received from Governments and public institutions, 

 the most imiwrtant of which are : The Report of the New York State Museum ; The Re|)ort, 

 of the Ontario Game and Fish Commission (Illustrated) ; The Mammals of Minnesota 

 (Illustrated) ; The Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution ; The 10th Volume, 

 Proceedings and Ti'ansactions of the Royal Society of Canada ; The 17th Report of the 

 Geolo^^y and Natural History of Indiana ; The Hawks and Owls of the United States 

 (beautifully illustrated). 



Those added by purchase are : Gray's Manual of Botany ; Scudder's Guide to 

 Butterflies ; The Life of a Butterfly, S. H. Scudder. 



The whole number now on the register is 1,28-1:. The number of volumes issued to 

 local members was 46. 



Several interesting additions were made to the native collection of Lepidoptera. 

 A few attractive things were added to the exotics. 



A box of beetles was kindly sent to the Society by Mr. Trevor C. D. Kincaid, 

 Olympia, Washington State, which have been placed in a drawer by themselves, and the 

 donor's name attached. 



A small but interesting and valuable collection of Rocky Mountain Butterflies has 

 been loaned to the Society by Mr. T. B. Parkinson, one of our local members. They 

 were taken by Dr. W. Hayden, Canmore, and presented by him to Mr. Parkinson. 



Through the kind consideration of Prof. C. B. Fernald, Amherst, Mass , the Society 

 has been out in possession of a complete life series of the Gypsy Moth, Ocneria difipar, 

 Linn. 



The valuable English collection had suffered severely from insect pests. By a liberal 

 use of white crystallized napthaline, the work of destruction was at once arrested, and 

 is now completely overcome. I And this material to be a clean, sife and certain preven- 

 tive, and even a complete exterminator of insect pests. 



Respectfully submitted, 



J. Alston Moffat. 



Librarian and Curator. 



REPORT FROM THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO TO THE 

 ROYAL SOOIE 1 Y OF CANADA. 



By W. Hague Hirkingtox, Delegate. 



I have the honor, as duly appointed delegate from the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario, to submit a brief report on its operations during the past year. It is very satis- 

 factory to state that, after a highly useful existence of thir'ty years the Society flourishes 

 with unimpaired vigor, and that its members con'inue witii unabated zeal, the investiga- 

 tion of the insect fauna of our vast territories to the gain both of science and of the agri- 

 cultural industries of the country. 



The Canadian Entomoloyist, the oflicial organ of the Society, completed, during 1892, 

 its twenty fourth volume, and the demand for admittance to its pages was so great that 

 they were increased from the standard number of 240 to no less than 323. There were 

 fifty-two contributors to the volume; among theii many of the most prominent entomol- 

 ogists of Canada and the United States. 



In the systematic papers were published descriptions of five new genera, and ninety- 

 six new species of insects ; chief.y Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptern. Of more 

 than ordinary interest were some of the articles on collecting, breeding, geographical dis- 

 tribution, classification, etc. 



