ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, 



The more important of the bound volumes received are, The Reports of the Mifsour* 

 Botanical Garden for the years 1891 and 1893. 



Annual Report of the Ontario Department of Agriculture for 1892. 



The Smithsonian Report for 1891. 



Report of the New York State Entomologist for the years 1891 and 1892. 



Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for 1892. 



Reports of the New York State Museum for the years 1892 and 1893. 



Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for 1893. 



Iron- bearing Rocks of Minnesota. 



Added by purchase : A popular handbook of the Ornithology of the United States 

 and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual : by Montague Chamberlain, 2 volumes. All 

 the Entomological writinos, up to date, of J. W. Tutt, F. E. S., England, editor of 

 " The Entomological Record and Journal of Variation." Also his instructive and amus- 

 ing book entitled, " Random Recollections of Woodland, Fen and Hill " ; seven volumes 

 in all. These were obtained in exchange for back volumes of the Canadian Entoinologist. 



There are now four hundred and eighty-five pa -nphlets in the Library, bound in twenty- 

 seven volumes. These volumes are labelled "Pamphlets," and numbered consecutively frora 

 1 to 27, but have their number in the Register accordingr to the time they were bound and 

 placed in the Library. The pamphlets are numbered in order, and catalogued in a book 

 by themselves, giving the Library number as in the Register, the number of the pamphlet 

 volume, the pamphlet numl>er, with the autiior's name, the subjects, and the date of issue 

 where obtainable. 



The whole number of volumes on the Register is now 1,361. The number of volumes 

 is.sued to local members during the year was forty-four. 



Additions are still being made to the Society's collection of native lepidoptera bv 

 the capture of species hitherto unrepresented therein ; twenty named forms beins: added 

 during the year, which had not before been published as Canadian. There are now 1,077 

 named formj in this department, as against 930 in 1892. A steady improvement in the 

 quality of the collection is also being made by the replacing of such as are not in perfect 

 condition, with fresh material obtained by capture or exchange. 



The first important addition to the Society's collection of native Coleoptera for sev- 

 eral years was made by Mr. A. H. Kilman, of Ridgeway, Ont., in a donation of a hundred 

 and fifty species. 



A small but highly interesting collection of Santo Domingo insects was presented t<5 

 the Society by a friend, the captures of his sister. Miss Davida Rougoie, who is at present 

 a resilient of that island. The most noticeable feature of it being three specimens of 

 Mantis of strikingly different form, color and ornamentation, indicating that it is an 

 abundant family in that locality. 



Through the kindness of Mr. A. P. Morse, of Wellesley College, Mass., the Society 

 has been put in possession of representative specimens of three species of Nevv England 

 Si'huragemon, also his paper, historical and descriptive, of the same. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



J. Alston Moffat, 



Librarian and Curator. 



The President then read his annual address, which was listened to with great interest 

 and attention : 



