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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 
The annual meeting of the Ontario Entomological Society was held 
November 25, 1891, in London, Ontario. The annual address was de- 
livered by the President, Rev. J.C. 8S. Bethune, who gave a review of 
the work of the society for the year, and mentioned as the principal in- 
jurious insects of the season the Eye-spotted Bud-moth (Tmetocera occel- 
lana), the Lesser Apple Leaf-roller (Teras minuta), the Oblique-banded 
Leaf-roller (Cacecia rosaceana), in addition to the ordinary species 
which are abundant every year. He recommended that more attention 
be paid to forests and insects injurious to forest trees. Mr. Bethune 
was reélected president for next year. We notice that Mr. J. Alston 
Moffatt’s collection of -Lepidoptera has been purchased by the society. 
A JAPANESE PARASITE OF THE GYPSY MOTH. 
As stated upon p. 41, vol. 11, INSECT LIFE, we learned in the fall of 
1890, through the kindness of Rev. Henry Loomis, of Yokohoma, that 
a species of Apanteles infests the Gypsy Moth in Japan. Mr. Loomis, 
during a visit to this country, called upon us in November and informed 
us that he had sent specimens of this Apanteles in the pupa state last 
summer to the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture. We have been 
unable to learn what disposition has been made of these specimens, 
but Mr. Loomis promises to send us others upon his return to Japan. 
It will be remembered that upon p. 297, vol. t11. we also published a 
communication from Mr. A. G. Butler, of the British Museum, in which 
he stated that the Japanese have at least four species closely allied to 
Ocneria dispar, but that none of them corresponded exactly with this 
species. We questioned Mr. Loomis very closely as to the identity of 
the species occurring in Yokohama and he showed himself very familiar 
with the characteristicsof the insect and was strongly of the opinion 
that it is identical with the species occurring in this country. He has 
- promised, however, to send us specimens so that this point will be 
definitely settled. 
PROFESSOR SMITH’S EUROPEAN TRIP. 
Partly under the auspices of the National Museum, Professor J. B. 
Smith recently made a brief study trip to Europe, for the purpose of 
examining the Lepidoptera in the principal museums. During his trip 
he accumulated a large number of notes which he thinks will result in 
placing the collections of the National Museum on a footing which will 
-makeits material in the Noctuide almost equal in value to types. In 
London he studied the British Museum collections and succeeded in 
identifying nearly all of Walker’s types, as well as most of the species 
described by Guenée, and made, in addition, critical comparisons be- 
tween the collections of Grote, Zeller, Guenée and Walker. While in 
