CONTENTS. 



Letter of Transmission .... 1 



Officers for 1898-9 2 



Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario 3 



Report of the Council 4 



Report of the Librarian and Curator 6 



Report of the Botanical Section 6 



Report of the Microscopical Section 7 



Report of the Geological Section 7 



Report of the Montreal Branch 9 



Report of the Toronto Branch 11 



Report of the Quebec Branch 12 



Report to the Royal Society of Canada 15 



Report of the Treasurer 16 



Annual Address of the President : Henry H. Lyman 17 



Some economic features of International Entomology : F. M. Webster 28 



Notes on Papilio brevicauda, Saunders : A. F. Winn 36 



The Conversazione •. 38 



The Farmers' Garden and its Insect Foes : Rev. T. W. F^les 40 



On the Noctuidae occurring at Toronto : Arthur Gibson 47 



The Collector and his relation to Pure and Applied Entomology : F. M. Webster 51 



Entomology in Schools : Wm. Lochhead , 54 



Two Avian Parasites ; notes on their Metamorphoses : R. Elliott and J. Dearness 59 



A bit of History : J. A. Moffat 61 



The Gypsy Moth : E. H. Forbush 62 



The Cotton Boll-worm in Canadian Corn : J. Dearness 64 



Muskoka as a collecting ground : Arthur Gibson 65 



Random recollections in Natural History : J. A. Moffat 67 



The preparation of specimens for the Exhibition of Life-histories : Dwight Brainerd .... 70 



The Brown-tail Moth : James Fletcher 72 



Injurious insects in 1898 : James Fletcher 75 



Notes on Insects of the year ; Division No. 1 : W. H. Harrington 87 



" " Division No. 2 : J D. Evans 90 



" " Division No. 4 : A. H. Kilman 90 



'■ " Division No. 5 : R. W. Rennie 91 



A few of the most troublesome insects of the past season : H. L. Hutt 93 



Notes of the season of 1898 : J. A. Moffat 100 



The Freezing of Insects : Henry H. Lyman 103 



Odour of the San Jose Scale : F. M. Webster and T. D. A. Cockerell 104 



Life history of the Sheep Scab-mre : C. P. Gillette 104 



Obituary notices , 1 05 



Book notices 107 



William Hague Harrington 113 



John Dearness 114 



Amendment of San Jose Scale Act and Regulations for Fumigating Nursery Stock 115 



Index , 117 



