206 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A. Clypeus strongly tridentate, ground colour rufous through- 



out Utahensis, Baker. 



B. Clypeus not strongly tridentate, ground colour of at least head and 



thorax black 



1. Last dorsal segment pointed, convex, legs yellovy and black. 



a. Bands of abdomen broad, continuous ; clypeus yellow, size 



small laticindus, Cr. 



b. Bands, especially first three, narrow or interrupted, size larger. 



1. Clypeus face and antennse black, except for two small yellow 



spots on face near base of mandibles taurulus, Ckll. 



2. Face with three broad yellow stripes, middle one 



shortest frigidus, Sm. 



3. Face all yellow Bakeri, Dun. 



2. Last abdominal segment rectangular and strongly concave, 

 clypeus margined with yellow 4-notatus, Ashm. 



This table is Mr. Baker's, and is merely adapted to contain the new 

 species. It was first published in Canadian Entomologist, XXVIL, 

 P- 335-6- 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 

 The annual report of the Director and his assistants for the year 

 1895 is a goodly volume of over 400 pages, octavo, and is full of valuable 

 and interesting matter. The portion contributed by Dr. Fletcher, the 

 Entomologist and Botanist, contains notices of a large number of injuri- 

 ous insects that have attracted attention during the season in various 

 parts of the Dominion, most of them being familiar pests. Among the 

 less well-known insects referred to may be mentioned the " joint- worm," 

 Isosoma /lordei, Harris ; the " cottony grass-scale," Eriopeltis festucce, 

 Fonsc. ; the " cigar case-bearer," ColeopJiora Fletcherella, Fernald ; the 

 "peach bark-borer," Phloeotribiis limhiaris, Harris; the " black peach- 

 aphis," Aphis persicce-niger, Smith; the "New York plum-scale," 

 Lecaiiium cerasi/cx, Fitch ; and the " carrot-fly," Psi/a rosce, Fab. The 

 most injurious insects of the year appear to have been the grasshoppers 

 of various species, which were excessively abundant in Ontario and the 

 Eastern Provinces. 



Dr. Fletcher includes in his report the experiments in bee-keeping 

 carried on under his supervision at the Ottawa Farm, and closes with an 

 account of some of the specially noxious weeds that are proving very 

 troublesome in Manitoba and the Northwest. On the whole, we look 

 upon this report as one of the most useful and interesting that our 

 Dominion Entomologist has yet published. 



