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excessively numerous. Of course this could be readily accounted for by 

 the numerous heavy rains, keeping ditches, puddles and swamps full, and 

 by the hot weather favoring the development of the low forms of animal 

 and vegetable life upon which the mosquito larvae feed. It is interesting 

 to note that mosquitoes are becoming much more common in Southern 

 California as one of the results of irrigation. Ditches, sluggish or partly 

 choked, or little basins formed here and there, afford excellent places for 

 them to breed. Prof. A. J. Cook has made the interesting observation 

 at Clermont, Cal., that mosquito larvae are able to stand considerable 

 drying up without injury, and when, after a dry period the water supply 

 is renewed, they resume their activity. 



New Jersey has an enviable reputation for the quality of its mosquitoes, 

 but I believe that the foreign product, on the plains of Manitoba, is supe- 

 rior in size, and at least equal in numbers and blood-thirsty disposition. 



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WHILE collecting on the Humber Plains on the nth of June with un- 

 friend, Mr. C. H. Tyers, we took a number of specimens of Colias cczso- 

 nia. This is the first time it has been taken in this locality and has only 

 been once recorded from Ontario. C. T. Hills, 18 Sussex Ave., Toronto, 

 Canada. 



THE Fifth Annual Excursion of the Entomologists of New York, 

 Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia was held near Newark, N. J., on 

 July 4, 1896, and was successful in every way. In spite of the disagree- 

 able weather of the early morning a large party participated, and every 

 one seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed the outing, which may aptly be 

 called a social gathering. The following persons were present: NKWARK: 

 Bischoff, Stortz, \Veidt, Reinicker, Seib, Cetz, Brehme, Kircher, Angel- 

 man, Weier, Deitze. NEW YORK : Palm, Merkel, Dietz, Ottolengui, 

 Beyer, Beutenmuller, Love, Schaeffer, Groth, Bennett, Soltati, Walker 

 (Jamaica, L. I.), Fischer (Buffalo), Steffens (Shelton, Conn.). PHII.A- 



