PROCEEDINGS FOR 1895 XLIX 
Important additions have been made to the society's collections of 
insects. In its cabinets may now be seen representatives of 1,077 species 
duly classified and named. 
The society is fortunate in retaining the services of Mr. J. Alston 
Moffat as librarian and curator. By his methodical habits, his skill in 
setting up specimens, and his extensive knowledge of the Lepidoptera, 
Mr. Moffat is peculiarly fitted for the position he holds. 
During the year the various sections of the society have held field- 
days at St. Mary’s, Dorchester, Kilworth, Byron, Komoka, Kettle Point 
(Lake Huron), Ilderton, Thedford, Beechville, Woodstock, Mud Lake and 
other places. The value of such expeditions from an educational point 
of view, in a neighbourhood that possesses such experienced scientific 
guides and instructors as Messrs. W. E. Saunders, J. M. Denton, J. A. 
Balkwill, J. W. Dearness, J. H. Bowman, Dr. S. Woolverton and R. W. 
Rennie, all long connected with the society, besides younger and enthu- 
silastic men, is beyond estimation. 
“The Canadian Entomologist,” the society's monthly magazine. has 
reached its twenty-seventh year. The volume for 1894 contains articles 
from 61 contributors—14 residing in Canada, 40 in the United States, 5 in 
England, 1 in Germany and 1 in Sweden. In its pages are described no 
less than 7 new genera and 95 new species of insects. The magazine con- 
tinues under the able management of the Rev. C. J. 8S. Bethune, D.C.L., 
P.R.S.C., ete. And it is a striking proof of the courage and perseverance 
of its editor, that notwithstanding the cares and anxieties that must have 
thronged him, through the destruction by fire of his noble school build- 
ings and the beautiful chapel attached to them, ~The Canadian Ento- 
mologist”” has made its appearance as regularly as ever and as carefully 
edited. 
Hitherto the Entomological Society of Ontario has studied the life- 
histories of insects ; the methods of attack of the pests of the homestead, 
the storehouse, the garden, the orchard, the field and the forest; the 
ways for circumventing these foes; and the nature and modes of appli- 
cation of insecticides. Much, no doubt, remains to be learned on all 
these subjects. But the attention of naturalists has of late been drawn 
to a new and most important matter. It is—to use the heading of one 
of the papers published in the society s report—the economic value of 
parasitism. It is well to know how to meet enemies ourselves, but it is 
better, sometimes, to know how to direct faithful allies against them. 
If the parasite (D/plosis grassator, Fyles) which keeps down the num- 
bers of the Phylloxera in this country had been carried over to Europe 
it would doubtless have saved many a vineyard that has disappeared. 
The introduction of the Australian Lady-bird ( Vedalia cardinalis, Mul- 
sunt), the foe of the “ Fluted Scale,” has probably saved the orange- 
groves of California trom extinction. The predaceous beetle, Clerus 
Proc. 1595. D. 
