VOL. XXVII. LONDON, AUGUST, 1895. No. 8. 



PROFESSOR WILLIAM SAUNDERS, F. R. S. C, F. L. S., ETC. 



We take great pleasure in presenting this month a likeness of Prof. 

 Saunders, who must be well-known, if not personally, certainly by 

 reputation, to every reader of the Canadian Entomologist. He was 

 one of the founders of the Entomological Society of Ontario in 1863, and 

 became its President in 1875, which position he held continuously till he 

 was appointed Director of the Experimental Farms of the Dominion in 

 1886. From 1874 to 1886 he was the General Editor of this Magazine, 

 and conducted it with singular ability and success. In 1883 he published 

 his great work: "Insects Injurious to Fruits,'' which has become a 

 standard volume of reference among horticulturists and economic 

 entomologists, and which reached a second edition in 1892. The list of 

 his publications in the Bibliography of the Royal Society of Canada 

 covers several pages and numbers between two and three hundred. In 

 the words of an American writer : " by painstaking study and observa- 

 tion he has risen to the topmost pinnacle of fame as an entomologist, 

 horticulturist and experimental agriculturist." 



No one can be more highly esteemed by all who know him, or more 

 beloved by his friends, than Professor William Saunders. May he 

 long be spared in health and strength to carry on his arduous and 

 important work for the benefit of the people of this Dominion ! 



OCCUPANTS OF THE GALLS OF EUROSTA SOLIDAGINIS, 



FITCH. 



BY W. HAGUE HARRINGTON, F. R. S. C , OTTAWA. 



These conspicuous spherical galls occur somewhat rarely at Ottawa 

 upon the stems of Solidago rugosa, and have been found to yield only the 

 handsome fly which produces them, and its parasite Eiirytoma gigatitea, 

 Walsh. The 24th May last I spent at Casselman, about thirty miles 

 southward from Ottawa, with Mr. Fletcher, and we found the galls 

 abundant upon Solidago serotina, upon the banks of the South Nation. 

 On opening one I found a pupa, apparently of a Mordella, in the pithy 

 substance, and, remembering Mr. Brodie's very interesting paper (Can. 



