104 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



REPORT OF THE DOMINION ENTOMOLOGIST. 



In the Report of the Dominion P"n(omoIo_e^ist f<^r the year 

 ontling March olst, 1914, which has just heen puljlished, an ac- 

 count is given of the activities of the Entomological Branch of the 

 Dominion Department of Agriculture, in the matter of controlling 

 insect pests throughout Canada, and all who are interested in this 

 subject will be repaid 1)\' a perusal of this record of a year's work. 

 The Department now maintains nine field laboratories in dit^ereiil 

 parts of the Dominion, at which inves(igati;)ns on various insect 

 pests are carried on. This line of work constitutes the chief aspect 

 of the work of the Branch. A large amoimt of work is necessitated 

 by the administration of the Insect and P?sts Regulations of the 

 Destructi\e Insect and Pest Act, inxoKing the inspection and 

 fumigation (jf trees and plants entering C^mada Perhaps one of 

 the most interesting of the acti\ities of the Branch is the work 

 carried on against the Brown-tail Moth in Eastern Canada, par- 

 ticularly the imjiortation and establishment of thr parasit«'s of this 

 insect and the Ciii)s\- Moth. A map is gi\en, showing the places 

 in Canada where the parasites of the Brown-tail and (iipsy Moths 

 have been distributed by the Department. Other l)ranches of 

 work co\ered by tlu' Report are iiuestigations on insects affecting 

 cereiils and other held crops, including an account of the nottjrious 

 Army-worm outbreak of 1913; insects afYecting fruit crops, as the 

 result of which in\estigation work of great practical \alue has en- 

 sued; insects affecting forest and shade trees in which an account 

 of the in\estigati(jns of Stanle\' Park, Vancou\er, which has been 

 so seriously affected by forest insects is given; insects affecting 

 domestic animals and man, and insects affecting garden and green- 

 house. The Report is a record of marked {progress in a branch ol 

 the work of the I)ei)artment of Agriculture which not onl\' affects 

 agriculture, but also forestry and public Health. Copies of this 

 Report may be had free on application to the Publications Branch, 

 Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, and recjuests for the Report 

 may be mailed free. — [Press notice from the Ottawa Department 

 of Agriculture. 



NOTES AM) giERIES. 



NOTES OX HIBERNATIN"(; LADYBIRD BEETLES. 



With the exception of frequent specimens of ladybird beetles 

 passing the winter in houses, the writer has only occasionally- 

 found hibernating forms. In consequence of this, the disco\er\- 

 of a large number of the species Adalia bipunctata Linn., in their 

 winter cjuarters, has pro\en more than usually interesting. The 



