CONTENTS 



PAGE. 



TLetter op Transmission 1 



Officers for 1897-8 2 



Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society or Ontario 3 



Report of the Council 5 



Report of the Montreal Branch , 6 



Report cf the Quebec Branch 7 



Report of the Toronto Branch 7 



Report of the Botanical Section 10 



Report of the Geological Section 10 



Report of the Microscopical Section 11 



Report to the Royal Society of Canada 12 



Annual Address of the President : John Dearness . 14 



The Locusts of the Bible : Rev. T. W. Fyles 23 



Notes on the Insects of 1897 : W. H. Harrington 30 



Notes en the Season of 1897 : Rev. C. J. S. Bethune 31 



The work against the Gypsy Moth, 1897 : A H. Kirkland , 34 



Report of the Treasurer •. 36 



Report of the Librarian and Curator : J. A. Moffatt ....... 37 



Report of the Delegates to the Meeting of the British Association 38 



A Study of the Gryllidae (Crickets): Wm, Lochhead 39 



The Value of Systematic Entomological Observations : J. A. Moffatt 45 



On Butterfly Books : H. H. Lyman 48 



Some Household Pests : Rev. C. J. S. Bethune 51 



On the Entomological Results of the Exploration of the British West India Islands by the 



British Association for the Advancement of Science : L. O. Howard 62 



Protective Resemblances : J. A. Moffatt 64 



Notes on the Season of 1897 : J. A. Moffatt ' 67 



Notes on the Season of 1897 : Rev. T. W. Fyles , 70 



Notes on the Season of 1897 : Arthur Gibson 74 



Notes on the Season of 1897 : C. E. Grant 75 



The San Jose" Scale : James Fletcher 78 



Ninth Annual Meeting of the As sociation of Economic Entomology 86 



Dr. James Fletcher 96 



Book Notices ; 97 



Acts re San Jose' Scale 100 



Index 10S 



[3] 



