with a little work, be largely increased, and the food habits of our wood-boring beetles 

 would well repay investigation. In the remaining orders a beginning only has been made, 

 and there is a vast and almost unworked field before us. 



Your Council would therefore urge upon the members the necessity of continued zeal 

 and energy in carrying out the pleasant task of working up the insect fauna of our district. 



The whole respectfully submitted, 



GEORGE JOHN" BOWLES, 



President. 



The report having been adopted, the election of officers took place, with the following 

 result : — 



G. J. Bowles, President ; H. H. Lyman, Vice-President ; F. B. Caulfield, Secretary- 

 Treasurer ; J. G. Jack, W. H. Smith, W. D. Shaw, J. F. Hausen, Council. 



The President read a paper on the " Cotton moth "(Aletia argillacea), giving its history 

 up to date, with a record of its occurrence north of the cotton belt. 



Mr. Lyman showed some rare Lepidoptera taken at Hudson's Bay by Dr. Robert Bell. 

 The President showed a number of Canadian Lepidoptera and Coleoptera } a,heT which 

 the meeting adjourned. 



F. B. CAULFIELD, 



Secretary. 



In the absence of the President, his Annual Address was read by the Secretary. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



Gentlemen, — It is seldom that a season passes in Canada with so little to record in 

 in reference to the injuries caused by destructive insects. Not only have we been favoured 

 bj r a kind Providence with a bountiful harvest, but our farmers have in great measure 

 been free from the losses which usually occur from insect pests. 



The Colorado potato beetle, Doryphora decemlineata, has proved destructive to potato 

 vines in a few localities, and where the application of the usual remedies has been negtected 

 or too long delaj r ed, they have destroyed the foliage to such an extent as to injure the crop ; 

 but where the use of Paris green has been promptly resorted to no difficulty has been 

 experienced in keeping this pernicious insect within due limits. 



The Plum Cuvculio, Conotrachelus nenuphar, has been far less prevalent than usual, so 

 that in many instances good crops of plums have been secured, even where no efforts have 

 been made to keep the insect in subjection. The plum crop generally has been a good one 

 and plum culture has consequently received a considerable impetus. 



The worm of the Cabbage butterfly, Pieris rapce, although still plentiful, is no longer 

 the terror to cabbage growers it formerly was, its natural enemies having multiplied to a 

 degree sufficient to keep it within some reasonable degree of subjection. The general 

 immunity which has of late prevailed regarding the pea-weevil, Bruch us pisi, still continues 

 and pea culture has become more general. Even the codling-worm, that perennial plague 

 to the apple grower, has been less injurious than usual, so that our apple and pear crops 

 have been freer than common from this obnoxious insect. Indeed there seems to have 

 been a general scarcity of insect life during the past season, of which collectors in this 

 department of natural history in Canada generally complain. 



Our large and important crops of cereals have been almost entirely free from insect 

 pests, but this experience has not by any means been universal. In the mother country 

 much consternation has been caused of late by the sudden appearance of the Hessian fly in 

 the wheat fields in considerable force, so that very serious injury has occurred in many 

 quarters. When first noticed specimens of the infested grain were submitted to Miss 

 Eleanor A. Ormerod, Consulting Entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society, who at 

 once divined the cause, found the linseed-like chrysalis in the wheatstalks and promptly 



