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REPORT OF THE DELEGATES TO THE ANNUAL CONVENTION 

 OF THE ONTARIO ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



J. C. Chapais, St. Denis-en-bas, P.Q- 



During last November (1914), Reverend Father Leopold, O.C.R. 

 and the writer had the pleasure of attending, as delegates of the Quebec 

 Society for the Protection of Plants, the annual convention of the Ontario 

 Entomological Society, held in Toronto, on the 5th and 6th of November. 



The programme of the convention led us to believe it would offer 

 much of interest to those who were to attend it, and we were not disap- 

 pointed. 



In the first place the reports of some of the directors of the Society on 

 the injuries caused by various insects in the districts of the Province of 

 Ontario which they represented were of the greatest interest, as well as 

 the short biographical notice and bibliographical review of the life and 

 works of J. H. Fabre, a renowned French contemporary naturalist, written 

 and read in a very attractive way by Professor Lochhead of Macdonald 

 College, President of the Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants. 



The opening address of the President, Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, was 

 such as to awake the inquisitiveness of the members of the convention, 

 even if only by its title: "History of Applied Entomology in the Dominion 

 of Canada." This address was brimful of quite interesting information 

 for all Canadian entomologists. The evening lecture was given by Pro- 

 fessor J. H. Comstock, of Cornell University, on "The Habits of Spiders." 

 A large audience was delighted with the most interesting lecture and the 

 large number of beautiful lantern views. Then followed an essay on: 

 "The Cherry-flies," by Professor Caesar of Guelph, Ont.; an excellent 

 paper, as much interesting from the entomological viewpoint, as attractive 

 through the original style of the writer, entitled "Mountains and Hills," 

 by Reverend Dr. Fyles, of Ottawa; an essay of a quite special usefulness 

 on the insect enemies of forest and ornamental trees, by Mr. J. M. Swaine, 

 of Ottawa; and many other papers on the programme made of that 

 meeting one of the best conventions attended by the hearers. 



For us, the most interesting papers presented before the convention 

 were two essays absolutely up to date on "The Army-Worm (Leucania 

 unipiinctata, La Legionnaire^ one by Mr. A. Gibson, of Ottawa, the 

 other by Mr. A. W. Baker, of Guelph. These essays gave complete 

 accounts of the Army-Worm caterpillars which have caused so much 



