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science ; it has been regularly issued and has always been well filled with useful matter. 

 The articles have been almost entirely original, and any new developments in Entomo- 

 logy have been promptly recorded in its pages. 



The meeting of the Entomological Club of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, was held at Saratoga, commencing on the 26th of August. 

 Our society was represented by the President, Mr. Wm. Saunders, and the Vice- 

 President, Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M.A. 



It has been decided to exhibit our collection of Canadian insects at the Dominion 

 Exhibition at Ottawa, and our collection of foreign ones at the Western Fair in Lon- 

 don. The Ottawa collection is formed of the bulk of our Centennial display, so that 

 those members who visit Ottawa, who have not before seen our collection, may be 

 enabled to judge of its value. 



Our branches in Montreal and London are still carrying on a successful work, and 

 join the Parent Society in hailing the coming year as one of increased usefulness and 

 success. 



Submitted on behalf of the Council, by 



Jas. H. Bowman, 



Secretary- Treasurer. 



Mr. Couper then read the report of the Montreal Branch, indicating very satisfac- 

 tory progress ; this was referred for publication. 



The annual address of the President was next in order, after the reading of which 

 a vote of thanks was tendered to him, both in the name of the Society and also in that 

 of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, for his exceedingly interesting and instructive 

 address, and a copy was requested for publication in the Annual Report. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



To the Members of the Entomological Society of Ontario : 



Gentlemen, — Again it is my privilege as your retiring President to address you, to 

 draw your attention to Entomological subjects, and more especially to the operations of 

 the insect world about you, and to record the progress or decline of those noiseless dis- 

 turbers of our peace — injurious insects. 



The City of Ottawa being one of the great centres of our lumbering interest, it 

 seems fitting that I should on this occasion call your particular attention to some of 

 those insects most injurious to our pine forests. The losses occasioned by the destruc- 

 tive work of borers in pine trees, both before and after they are cut, are unfortunately too 

 well known to those interested in the lumber trade, although the sufferers may not be 

 familiar with the life histories of their enemies so as to be able to recognize them in 

 the various stages of their existence. The lumberman suffers from the work of a num- 

 ber of destructive species, nearly all of which inflict their greatest injuries during the 

 larval stage of their existence. 



There are three families of beetles in which are included the greater number of our 

 enemies in this department. I allude to the longicorns or long-horned beetles, Ceram- 

 bycida ; the serricorn or saw-horn beetles, Buprestida, and the cylindrical bark beetles, 

 Scolytida. To go over this long series in detail would weary you. A brief sketch of 

 the life history of a single example in each family will serve as representatives of the 

 whole. 



One of the most destructive of the species included in the Cerambycida is a large 

 grey beetle with very long horns, known to Entomologists under the name of Monoham- 

 mus confusor, and popularly in this district as the " Ottawa Cow." Where trees have 

 become diseased from any cause, or where a fire has ravaged a pine forest and scorched 



