Vol. LIII. LONDON, JANUARY, 1921. No. 1 



With the present volume the Editorship of the Canadian Entomologist 

 passes into new hands. The retiring editor has for some years been conscious 

 of the necessity for this change, owing to the increasing demands on his time 

 of his University duties, which have made it difficult for him to give as much 

 attention to his editorial work as it deserves. It is gratifying, therefore, to 

 know that this work will pass into such capable hands as those of our esteemed 

 colleague. Dr. James McDunnough, of the Dominion Entomological Branch, 

 Ottawa. Dr. McDunnough needs no introduction to the readers of the Can- 

 adian Entomologist. His numerous publications on the North American 

 Lepidoptera, among the most important of which are the well-known "Contrib- 

 utions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North America" and the 

 "Check List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America" have placed him in the 

 front rank of students of this order, and since his appointment to the Dominion 

 Entomological Branch he has extended his activities in several other directions. 



In resigning from his office the retiring editor wishes to thank his many 

 friends among our contributors, whose services have been the main source of 

 our journal's continued success, and with whom correspondence has been both 

 a pleasure and a profit. 



POPULAR AND PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Life-history of a Hobby Horse.* 

 by francis j. a. morris, 



Peterborough, Ont. 



Part 1 1. Boy and Man — Sapling Growth. 



You may easily guess how little London had of attraction for either Sly- 

 boots or Merry Andrew; and instead of seeking after the Babylonish gods 

 therein enshrined, we laboured day by day to recreate the childhood world of 

 our delight. In this, with a fair share of luck and the help of some wise and 

 benevolent elders, we were largely successful. 



From the very first our young natures shied like roe deer at the city, snuff- 

 ing the air and stamping uneasily f and this instinctive distrust we soon nursed 

 into a wholesome hate that grew steadily with the years. London, we both 

 agreed, was nothing but a howling wilderness, and for two reasons only could 

 we ever be induced willingly to enter this arid waste; either to rush out at the 

 other side of it on the northern express, or to visit the great oasis at the heart 

 of the desert — the Zoological Gardens. 



Yet another district did indeed form the objective of certain long and 

 dreary pilgrimages, on which we were dragged periodically by the Olympians, 

 to the National Exhibitions, those monstrous displays of human industry and 



*Part 1 of this paper was published in the 49th Annual Report of the Entomological Society 

 of Ontario, 1918, (1919) pp. 39-46. 



