XLVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
‘Catastega aceriella, Clemens,=Semasia Signatana, Clemens,” by 
Rey. Thomas W. Fyles, South Quebec. 
‘Notes on a few Canadian Coleoptera.” by W. Hague Harrington, 
F.R.8.C., Ottawa. 
* Food, Feeders, and Fed,” by Rev. Thomas W. Fyles, South Quebec. 
‘An Attack of Hphestia interpunctella,’ by H. A. Stevenson, 
London. 
‘The Economie Value of Parasitism,” by F. M. Webster. 
“The Reappearance of Pieris protodice, Boisd.,” by J. Alston Moffat. 
London, Ont. 
“ Remarks on the Structure of the Undeveloped Wings of the Satur- 
niide,” by J. Alston Moffat. 
“ Bordeaux Mixture as a Deterrent against Flea Beetles,’ by L. R. 
Jones, Burlington, Vermont. 
‘The Gypsy Moth,” by James Fletcher, Ottawa. 
‘The San José Scale,” by James Fletcher, Ottawa. 
“Injurious Fruit Insects of the Year 1594,” by James Fletcher. 
Ottawa. 
The twenty-fifth annual report issued by the society contains por- 
traits of Professor William Saunders, F.R.S.C., president of the society 
from 1875 to 1886, and Augustus Radcliffe Grote, M.A., one of the 
society's honorary members, and it is illustrated with sixty figures of 
insects. Besides the president's address and the papers above mentioned, 
the report contains : 
The minutes of the meeting. § 
The report of the librarian and curator, Mr. J. Alston Moffat. 
The report of the Montreal branch, presented by Mr. H. H. Lyman. 
president, and signed by Mr. A. F. Winn, secretary. 
The report of the geological section, presented by Dr. 8S. Woolverton, 
vice-chairman, 
The report of the botanical section, presented by W. F. McClement. 
secretary. 
The report of the delegate to the Royal Society of Canada. 
It also contains a very valuable abstract of the proceedings of the 
sixth annual meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists, sup- 
plied by Mr. L. O. Howard, entomologist of the department of agricul- 
ture, Washington, and Mr. C. L. Marlatt, secretary of the meeting. 
Also a number of interesting notices, critical, biographical, ete. 
The annual report is distributed * not only to our own members, but 
to every member of the Fruit-growers’ Association, to members of par- 
liament, the mechanics’ institutes, etc., making an issue of 6,000 copies.” 
(W. H. Harrington, * Canadian Entomologist,” vol. xxvi., p. 2.) 
The society's library now numbers 1,361 volumes, 77 having been 
added in the course of the year. 
