180 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Bui.T.ETIN OF JHE BrI'IISH COLUMBIA EnTOMOI-OOICAL SoCIETY. No. I, 



March, 1906 (Quarterly). 

 We lieartily welcome this first publication by our friends in British 

 Columbia. It is intended to be a medium of communication between the 

 widely-scattered members of the Society in that Province, and will no 

 doubt prove a useful bond of symi)athy iii each other's work. The 

 four pages now issued give an outline of what has already been done in 

 several orders, and a first instalment of a list of l). C. Coleoptera, com 

 prising the Ccccinellidse ; they also furnish ihc proceedings of the 

 Society, notes and records, etc. The number is useful and interesting, 

 and the ])ublication will soon prove indispensable to all who study or 

 collect the insect fauna of our Pacific Const Province. There is a vast 

 field of territory to be ex})lored, and important discoveries will soon 

 reward the })ainstaking investigator. 



Report of the Experimental Farms ok the Dominion for 1905. 

 Ottawa, 1906, pp. 461. 



This goodly volume contains the reports for the past year of the 

 Director and other officers o£the various Experimental Farms scattered 

 over the Dominion. While all contain much matter of general interest 

 and of great value to the farming community, we are chiefly attracted to 

 that of the Entomologist and Botanist, Dr. James Fletcher (p[). 159-204), 

 in which he treats of insects affecting cereals, fodder crops, roots and 

 vegetables, fruit crops, forest and shade trees, and in the Botanical part of 

 the Dodder on clover and alfalfa. Among those specially dealt with may 

 be mentioned the Hessian Fly, the Pea Moth ( Scmasia nigricaiia ), the 

 Spined Rustic ( BaratJu-a occidentata), which has hitlierto been considered 

 a rare moth, but whose larvae appeared in numbers at Ottawa, and did 

 much damage to various plants : its life-history is described, and a ])late 

 given showing the moth and cater})illars in different stages. The Larch 

 Case-bearer ( ColeopJiora laricella) is another instance of an insect that 

 had not ])reviously been recorded as injurious. 



A large number of other insects are more or less fully described, and 

 ])ractical directions for dealing with them are given. We are glad to 

 receive the rejjort so early in the year, enabling all concerned to deal wiih 

 their insect foes as they appear. Too often it ha])pens, through delays in 

 printing, that rei)orts of this kind come out too late to be of use during 

 the season for which they are intended. We are thankful to Dr. Fletcher 

 for giving us in so concise and excellent a form the results of his labour 

 and exj^erience during the past year. 



Mailed Mav 2nd, igoG. 



