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materially injure the crop. Since the larva of this insect is found only in 

 the nests of bees, wasps, etc., where it feeds on the young of these nest- 

 making insects, and consumes the potato vine only while in the perfect or 

 beetle state, no serious injury is likely to result from its presence. Its 

 larval habits are such that if abundant one year, it is almost sure to be 

 correspondingly scarce the following season. 



In the garden of Mr. J. C. Phipps, the Indian Agent of the Govern- 

 ment at Manitowanning, I was surprised to find that the oyster-shell bark 

 louse, which injures apple trees, was not only abundant on the apple 

 trees, but the stems of both black and red currant bushes were also 

 thickly clad with them to such an extent as to have killed a number of 

 them. I had never before seen this destructive insect attack the currant, 

 but it has been occasionally observed on currant bushes in the United 

 States. 



For several years past I have had occasion to refer to the depredations 

 of the forest tent caterpillar, Clisiocampa sylvatica, which has devastated 

 our gardens, orchards and forests ; it has now happily almost disappeared, 

 a result brought about, I have no doubt, mainly through the agency of 

 parasitic flies, several species of which have been preying on them exten- 

 sively. In some sections of the Province the rose-bug, Macrodaciylus 

 subspinosus, has been abundant and injurious. In East Flamboro' I am 

 informed that they were very destructive to the sweet cherries, devouring 

 the fruit, and that they also injured the grape .crop by eating the bunches 

 shortly after blossoming. Some grape growers have also suffered con- 

 siderably from the attacks of the grape vine flea-beetle, which devours the 

 buds just as they are swelling in the spring. 



At the late meeting of the Entomological Club of the American . 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, in Boston, our Society was 

 represented by Mr. H. H. Lyman, of Montreal, and the Rev. C. J. S. 

 Bethune, whose able report of the important proceedings of the Club 

 will be read with interest. It is gratifying to learn that the good work 

 done by the Club has given it such a standing that the Association has 

 seen fit to establish it as a permanent Sub-section, and the more important 

 papers read will in future be published in the yearly volume of Pro- 

 ceedings. 



During the year the New York State Legislature has appointed J. A. 

 Lintner, of Albany, N. Y., as State Entomologist. New York was the 

 first State in the Union to look after the interests of agriculture in this 



