210 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
equally over the warm and temperate regions of the earth, Smzcra, with 
very few exceptions, is limited to the New World, where there are some 
species in North America, many in Mexico and in the West Indies, and 
great abundance in the tropical parts of South America, and the genus has 
thus much more influence than Zewcospis in regulating, by means of 
transfer, the increase of other insect tribes. Its body is ornamented with 
very various patterns of black ona yellow or red ground hue, except a few 
species, which are mostly or entirely black. The family Chalcdide, to 
which it belongs, is even more free than the Zeucospidae from metallic 
lustre, the only exception being the isolated genus, Vofaspis, a native of 
St. Vincent’s Isle, in the West Indies. The very few species in Asia and 
Africa hardly possess the typical form, but the three or four European 
species are as characteristic of the genus as those of America. The 
American species from Georgia, which I have mentioned as a variety of . 
the European S. wigrifex, may be considered as a distinct species. It was 
not known to Cresson, who has described many new species of the genus, 
but will probably be soon distinguished and named in America. It isa 
little smaller than S. wigrifex; the forewings are a little narrower; the 
petiole is a little longer; the hind coxæ are a little shorter: the hind 
femora are not black at the tips, and have beneath smaller and more 
numerous teeth ; the tibiæ are piceous, red at the base, not wholly black, 
as are those of .S. xigrifex. The only Canadian species is S. Canadensis. 
ANNUAL ADDRESS 
OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, 1072 
To the Members of the Entomological Society of Ontario: 
GENTLEMEN,—It is my happy privilege once again to congratulate you 
upon the completion of another year of progress in the annals of our 
Society. As you have already learnt from the very satisfactory Report of 
our excellent Secretary-Treasurer, the list of members of the Society has 
been largely added to during the past twelve months; the Library has 
_been increased by the purchase of a number of valuable Entomological 
works ; a cabinet and microscope have been bequeathed to us by our late 
lamented member, the Rev. Professor Hubbert, and our collections have 
been much improved ; a comfortable and commodious suite of rooms has 
been procured in a central locality in London, Ont.,—the present head- 
