ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



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In respect to protection, we have much to hope from the vigilance and energetic 

 action of economic entomologists in the United States. In this connection much credit 

 is due to Prof. Webster, of Wooster, for outspoken and manly denunciation of nursery- 

 companies he named who negligently contributed to the spread of this pest and of whose 

 criminal negligence we have had a taste in Ontario. It was doubtless at his prompting; 

 that the Ohio Horticultural Society issued the call for the National Convention held in 

 Washington last March to consider the suppression of insect pests and plant diseases by 

 legislation. The proceedings of this convention served to direct attention to the dangers 

 from imported insects that confront our fruit growers and to prepare the way for guaran- 

 teeing nursery stock and adopting other legislative preventives of the spread of pernicious, 

 insects and fungi. 



Entomology in Schools. 



It must have pleased the friends of scientific education who read the last annuaS 

 report to observe that the teaching of entomology in the public schools occupied so large- 

 a share of attention. 



The Western Fair Board this year repeated its offer of prizes for the life histories of 

 injurious insects exhibited by schools. The prizes were won by Mr. J. W. Atkinson's 



Fig. 7. — Pieris rapse, mile. 



Fig. 8. 



Pieris raptc, female. 



Fig. 9. — Pieris rapae; 



a, caterpillar ; b. 



chrysalis. 



school, Avon P.O., and Miss Oorsaut's, No. 15, London Township. The former exhibited 



the cabbage butterfly, Pieris Eapce, in egg, larvae (Fig. 9a) blown and in alcohol, pupae: 



(Fig. 95) and imagines of both sexes (Fig. 7 the male, Fig. 8 the female butterfly), pressed. 



Fig. 10.— Red 



Fig. 11. — Trombidium Locustarum. — a, a female with her batch of 

 eggs ; 6, newly hatched larva — natural size indicated by the dot within 

 the circle on the right ; c. egg ; d, c, vacated shells (after Riley).; r^^ 



leaves showing the work of the larvae, and a readable description of the insect and account 



of the observations made upon its life history. 



Miss Corsaut's school exhibited a series of specimens of grasshoppers (Fig. 10) one 



or two with parasites attached, the red mite, Trombidium locustarum (Fig. 11), and a. 



dissection of a locust. 



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