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ANNI^AL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGIdAL SOlHETY OF ONTARIO. 



The aiimial iiu'otiuj; of the Ontaiic* Kntoinol()<iji<'al Society was held 

 November -."), 1891, in Loiulon, Ontario. The annual address was de- 

 livered by the President, Rev. J. C. S. Bethune, who gave a review of 

 the work of the society for the year, and mentioned as the principal in- 

 juri(ms inse<'tsof the season the Eye-spotted Bu<l-moth {Tmvtoirraovvel- 

 l(tiia), the Lesser Apple Leaf-roller {Tcras miniita), the Oblicpie-banded 

 Leaf-roller {Caccecia rosaceana), in addition to the ordinary species 

 which are abundant every year. He recommended that more attention 

 be paid to forests and insects injurious to forest trees. Mr. Bethune 

 was reelected president for next year. We notice that Mr. J. Alston 

 Moffatt's collection of Lepidoptera has been purchased by the society. 



A JAPANESE PARASITE OF THE GYPSY MOTH. 



As stated upon p. 41, vol. in, Insect Life, we learned in the fall of 

 1800, through the kindness of Rev. Henry Loomis, of Y'okohoma, that 

 a species of Apanteles infests the Grypsy Moth in Japan. Mr. Loomis, 

 during" a visit to this country, called upon us in November and informed 

 us that he had sent specimens of this Apanteles in the pupa state last 

 summer to the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture. We have been 

 unable to learn what disposition has been made of these specimens, 

 but Mr. Loomis promises to send us others upon his return to Japan. 

 It will be remembered that ui)on p. 297, vol. iii. we also ijublished a 

 communication from Mr. A. G. Butler, of the British Museum, in which 

 he stated that the Japanese have at least four species closely allied to 

 Ocneria dispar, but that none of them corresponded exactly with this 

 species. We questioned Mr. Loomis very closely as to the identity of 

 the species occurring in Yokohama and he showed himself very familiar 

 with the characteristicsof the insect and was strongly of the opinion 

 that it is identical with the species occurring in this country. He has 

 lu'omised, however, to send us specimens so that this point will be 

 definitely settled. 



PROFESSOR smith's EUROPEAN TRIP. 



Partly under the auspices of the National Museum, Professor J. B. 

 Smith recently made a brief study trip to Europe, for the purpose of 

 examining the Lepidoptera in the principal museums. During his trip 

 lie accumulated a large number of notes which he thinks will result in 

 placing the collections of the National Museum on a footing which will 

 make its material in the Noctuida^ almost e^iual in value to types. In 

 London he studied the British Museum collections and succeeded in 

 identifying nearly all of Walker's types, as well as most of the species 

 described by Grueuee, and made, in achlition, critical comparisons be- 

 tween the collections of Grote, Zeller, Guenee and Walker. While in 



