on THK CANATMAN KNTOMOT.OGIST 



DR. C. (.ORDON HEWITT. 



It is with the most profound regret that we have to record the death of Dr. 

 C. (jordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist, who died at Ottawa on February 

 29, 1920, of pneum.onia, following a brief, but very severe attack of influenza. 

 He had been attending the meetings of the Conservation Commission in Mon- 

 treal, and was taken ill on the day of his return to Ottawa, February 20. 



By his death Canada has lost one of her ablest m^en of science, and the 

 Department of Agriculture a most valuable servant, through whose wide knowd- 

 edge of economic zoology, farsighted judgment and great administrative abilit\- 

 the Dominion Entomological Service has developed to a remarkable extent in its 

 scope and acti\'ities since his appointment as Dominion Entomologist in 1909. 



An account of Dr. Hewitt's life and work, and a list of his ])ul)lications, 

 will appear in our next issue. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL BRANCH DIVISION OF FOREST INSECTS. 



Mr. Ralph Hopping, in charge of forest insect investigations in British 

 Columbia for the Division of Forest Insects, is supervising control operations 

 in the beetle-infested yellow pine of the Cold-water valley and the adjoining 

 district west of Merritt and Canford, B.C. The work is undertaken in co- 

 operation with the Prov. Forest Branch of British Columbia, the Dominion 

 Forest Branch and local lumber companies. The control methods include 

 modified logging operations, the salvage of the timber when this is feasible, 

 and the burning of the slash. Mr. Hopping is having excellent success in organ- 

 izing this important work, and we entertain great hopes that a large body of 

 fine timber will be saved therebv. 



CORRECTION OF TWO GENERIC NAMES IN 

 COLEOPTERA AND HYMENOPTERA. 



In the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, \'ol. 56, p. 139, 

 et sequa, the writer made premature use of the generic name Coleomegilla, its 

 proper publication in another journal having been delayed and finally omitted. 

 The name should be credited to Dr. T. D. A. Cockerell, who supplied the writer 

 with the following note in September, 1918: "Mr. Timberlake asks concerning 

 the name in which I have had in manuscript since 1906 for the genus typified 

 by Megilla ynacnkila DeGeer, the name Megilla being preoccupied. It is Coleo- 

 megilla, and if we adojn it the species becomes Coleomegilla maculata.'' (Signed) 

 T. D. A. C^jckerell. 



On page 190 of the same Proceedings the writer proposed the new genus 

 Brethcsia for a .South .American Encyrtid. This name is preoccupied by Brethesia 

 Schrottky, and Brethesiella is here i)roposed to take its place, with Brethesia 

 latijrons as type, the two included species becoming Brethesiella latifrons and 

 abnormiconiis. 



P. H. TiMBERLAKK. 



Mailed April :]Oih, 1920. 



