In the line of economic entomology, several reports, bulletins and papers have 

 appeared since I last had the honour of addressing you, from the United States 

 Entomologist, the State Entomologists of Illinois and New York, and from the 

 various experimental stations and agricultural colleges in the United States. 



Useful articles upon many insects which occur in Canada, have been issued 

 officially in Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, New Jersey, Iowa 

 and Kansas. These sources of information are, of course, of great interest to us, 

 and we must be grateful for the frequent opportunities we have of benefitting 

 from the experience of our friends to the south. 



Before closing, I wish to bring one other subject under your notice for dis- 

 cussion. I have here some figures which have been executed direct from a photo- 

 graph, which was taken at Ottawa by Mr. H. N. Topley, by the new isochromatic 

 process, sent to New York and engraved by the Moss Engraving Co., and in less 

 than a week the blocks were sent back to Ottawa ready for use. In this way 

 great accuracy is assured without the much larger expense necessary when figures 

 are drawn by an artist and then afterwards engraved. Figures are a great help 

 in placing before our readers an intelligible idea of the insects we speak of in our 

 reports ; therefore it is an important consideration to get as many as possible, if 

 they can be done accurately. Unluckily for natural history, such artists as Mrs. 

 Comstock, Prof. Riley and his assistants, Miss Sullivan and Dr. Marx, are very 

 scarce ; but I am of the opinion that the process I have mentioned will, in a large 

 measure, meet the difficulty under which we labour for the present. 



And now, gentlemen, I beg to remind you that I have for three years pre- 

 sided over j'our deliberations. I trust that the influence and utility of the society 

 may have increased during that time. It has been my endeavour to develop 

 particularly the practical aspects of our studies, and I hope I may have succeeded 

 in some measure ; but I am strongly of the opinion that three years is long- 

 enough for any one person to hold the office of chief executive officer, and as the 

 old adage " a new broom sweeps clean" is as true of entomology as of everything 

 else, I must beg you, for the good of the society, to elect some one else to fill the 

 important office ot president for the ensuing year. I thank you all for your con- 

 tidenec. assistance and advice during my tenure of office, and beg you to allow me 

 now to retire again to the ranks, where I shall always consider it an honour to 

 work for and do my utmost to keep up the honorable position which has been 

 won by the Entomological Society of Ontario. 



Your obedient servant, 



JAMES FLETCHER. 



A c< irdial vote of thanks for his able and interesting address was unanimously 

 to the president on motion of Dr. Bethune, seconded by Mr. Reed. 



In the discussion which followed, Dr. Brodie stated that he had found several 

 cereals injured by thrips ; he discovered what were probably the larva? of th rips- 

 feeding under the sheath on culms of grass, but when kept over night no speci- 

 men- wer< to be found in the morning. He and Professor Wright had examined 

 the insects and came to the conclusion that they were thrips. The larvae were' 

 Iingly difficult to mount for the microscope; if preserved in balsam they 

 soon faded out and became useless, but better results followed the use of glycerine. 

 fie was satisfied that there are two broods in the year, the first being early in 



