ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The following were some of the more important papers published during the year : 



Can Insects Survive Fi-eezing] Mr. H. H. Lyman. 



Entomology for Beginners— Three papers, :NLr. J. Flktciiek, Mr. H. F. Wickham. 

 Descriptive papers on N. A. Diptera, Mr. 0. Tyler Towx.send. 

 Notes on Coleoptera, Dr. John Hamilton. 

 Orthoptera of Indiana, Mr. W. S. Blatchley. 



Miscellaneous Notes on Butterflies, Lai- vie, etc., Mr. W. U. Edw.vuds. 

 Getting Butterfly Eggs, Mr. W. G. Wright. 

 Classification of North American Spiders, Mr. Nathax Banks. 

 New North American Homoptera, Mr. E. P. Van Duzek. 

 New North American Microlepidoptera, Prof. Fkrnald. 

 Canadian Galls and their Occupants, Mr. Wm. Brodie. 

 Four Insect Monstrosities, Mr. H. F. Wickham. 



Insects attracted by Fragrance or Brilliancy of Flowers for purpose of Cross-Fertiliza- 

 tion, Dr. R. E. KuNZE. 



The Inhabitants of a Fungus, and Life History of Xenos, Mr. H. G. Hubbard. 



A full report was also published of the meeting of the Entomological Club of the 

 A.A.AS., including the very valuable address of the President, Mr. E. A. Sjhwarz, 

 which dealt very thoroughly with the work hitherto accomplished in North American 

 coleopterology. When to the foregoing contents are added the book notices of current 

 publications on economic and systematic entomology, correspondence and records of 

 varieties and rare species, obituary notices, etc., the result is a volume of much value and 

 interest to all who are interested in the study of insect life. 



The society also furnished to the Oatario Department of A'^riculture the u.sual 

 annual report (No. 23) which consisted of 88 pages, with numerous illustrations. In addition 

 to a full rep3rt of the proceedings at the annual meeting of the society, it contained some 

 valuable special papers, of which may be mentioned the following : 



A Visit to the Canadian Haunts of the late Philip Gjsse, Rev. T. W. Fyles. 



A Trip to Mount Washington, Mr. H. H. Lyman. 



Notes on the Rarer Butterflies of the Province of Quebec, Rev. T. W. Fvles. 



On the Power of Insects to Resist the Action of Frost, Mr J. A. Moffat. 



Some Injurious Microlepidoptera, Mr. J. A. Moffat. 



The Hornfly, Mr. James Fletcher 



Clothes Moths, Mr. James Fletcher. 



The Songs of Our Grasshoppers and Crickets, Prof. S. H Scudder. 



The thirteenth annual meeting of the Society was held in its rooms in London, on 

 Wednesday, August 21st, and Thursday, September 1st. The President, the Rev. Dr. 

 Bethune, F.R.S.C, delivered a very valuable address, in the course of which he discussed 

 those insects which had been reported as most numerous and destructive during the vear. 

 Interesting papers were also read by several members, and reports were received from 

 the Geological, Botanical, Ornithological and Microscopical Sections, and also from the 

 Montreal Branch, which for many year.s has regularly brought together for mutual instruc- 

 tion the students of entomology in that city and visinity. 



The Society was honored during the year in the election of Rev. Dr. Bethune to the 

 distinguished position of Pie.^ident of the Eatoniological Club of A. A. A. S., and Vice- 

 President of the Association of Economic Entomologists. 



