46 PROTECTION OF PLANTS, 1915-16 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATE TO THE MEETING OF THE 

 ONTARIO ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY HELD AT OTTAWA 



By Rev. Father Leopold, La Trappe, Que. 



For the second time, in company with our friend Mr. J. C. Chapais, 

 it was my pleasure and benefit to take part in the Annual Meeting of the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario as your delegate. 



The Society convened at Ottawa, on the 4th and 5th of November in 

 the large laboratory of the Entomological Branch of the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, presided until one of 

 the members of our Quebec Society, Mr. A. F. Winn, of Westmount, was 

 appointed to take the presidential chair. 



The papers presented at the meeting were of great interest, for they 

 were in most cases followed by valuable discussions. The whole range 

 of agriculture was brought before the meeting, general farming, horti- 

 culture and fruit-growing, as well as forestry, for insects, both beneficial 

 and noxious, in all these different phases of agriculture, were mostly spoken 

 of in some way or other during the two days of the convention. 



I do not intend to report even hurriedly all of the valuable papers, 

 as you will find them in the annual report of the Society, of which most of 

 us are members. But I will dwell chiefly, in these short remarks, upon 

 the work done by the Dominion Entomological Branch, and also upon a 

 few insects that interest the fruit-growers especially. 



We all know the important place the Brown Tail and Gypsy Moth 

 have taken in the States and in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. For 

 some years parasites of both these insects were reared and disseminated 

 over infested areas in the States, and now the Entomological Branch has un- 

 dertaken valuable work along the same lines, with the co-operation of Dr. 

 L. O. Howard, Chief of the United States Bureau of Entomology. Through 

 his courtesy the rearing of parasites has been carried on for the past four 

 seasons in the Brown Tail Moth Laboratory at Melrose Highlands, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Mr. Leonard McLean, field officer in the Entomological Laboratory 

 at Fredericton, N.B., in a paper he presented gave us an idea of the work 

 accomplished at Melrose in raising the parasites. As the Brown Tail 

 Moth in Canada is happily not yet widely spread it was necessary to choose 



