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Breadth of femur, 84 ft. Labium, length 135, breadth 90 fi. Caudal 

 bristles and bristles of anal ring of the same length, 120 /a. 



Boiled in caustic potash, the females turn bright red. 



Hab. — Romeroville, New Mexico, on roots of grass, Nov. 9, 1901 

 (W. P. Cocker ell). 



Closely allied to D. sa/inus, Ckll. (from California), but the femora 

 are stouter, the labium is broader, and the caudal bristles are much 

 longer. The antennas are curiously like those of the Brazilian D. 

 secretus, Hempel. D. roseotinctus is also very similar to D. trifolii 

 (Forbes), which has a lateral fringe, but there are various small 

 differences, and the colour is not the same. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 

 The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the Society was held in London 

 on the 13th and 14th of November. The first morning was taken up 

 with a business meeting of the Council. In the afternoon a conference on 

 the San Jose scale in Ontario took place. Mr. Fisher, the Provincial 

 Inspector, gave an interesting account of the present condition of the 

 infested localities and of the work which had been undertaken for the 

 repression of the insect during the past year. He also described very 

 fully the remedies employed and the apparatus which had been found 

 most useful. Dr. Fletcher gave some account of his observations in 

 several parts of the country and in Ohio, and spoke in the highest terms 

 of the good work done by Mr. Fisher and the wise measures adopted by 

 the Department of Agriculture since the first outbreak of the pest. Prof. 

 Webster (of Ohio) related his experience in dealing with the problem, 

 which was the same in Ontario as in Ohio, and gave much useful informa- 

 tion on the subject. The Hon. John Dryden, Minister of Agriculture for 

 Ontario, in closing the discussion, spoke of the great difficulty he had to 

 contend with owing to the refusal of the people in general to believe in 

 the dangerous character of the scale. This Society, and the Fruit- 

 growers' Associaton, should do their utmost to educate the public on this 

 matter, and so lead them to co-operate in all measures that were adopted. 

 He felt much encouraged by what he had heard that afternoon, and would 

 continue to do his utmost for the extermination of the pest. 



In the evening a public meeting was held at the Normal School and 

 was very well attended. The Hon. John Dryden, who presided, spoke in 

 very high terms of the Society and the good work it had done during a 



