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RECl^NT CANADIAN Pl'BLKATIONS. 



(Continued from p. 21.) 



From Le NaTURALiSTE Canadien: — 



Odonates des environs de Saint Alexandre, Ironside, P. Q. By L. M. Stohr. 

 Vol. XLV, No. 6. Dec, 1918, pp. 81-85. Forty-one species are recorded, of 

 w hich five are new to the Province of Quebec. 



Un probleme entomologiqiie. (Editorial.) Vol. XLV, No. 8, Fevriar, 1919, 

 pp. 110-117. Records the capture of the noctuid moth, Stretchia plusiceformis 

 Hy. Edw. at Chicoutimi, a species otherwise known only from western North 

 America. 



La guerre aiix coquerelles. By P. Ft)ntanel, S. J. Vol. XLV, Dec, 1918, 

 pp. 8()-93: Jan., 1919, pp. 104-110; Fcv., 1919, pp. 117- 126. The habits and 

 methods of destroying cockroaches are described, including formuke for various 

 insecticides. 



Les Coleopteres du Canada. By J. I. PK-aulnc. Vol. XLV, Nov., 1918, 

 pp. 76-79; Dec, 1918, pp. 93-95; Jan., 1919, pp. 104-110; Fev., 1919, pp. 117- 

 126; Mar., 1919, pp. 140-143; Avr., 1919, pp. 157-160; Mai, 1919, pp. 173-175; 

 Juin. 1919, pp. 186-191; Vol. XLVI, Aout, 1919, pp, 45-48; Sept., 1919, pp, 

 69-72; Oct., 1919, pp. 94-96; Nov. 1919, pp. 117120. These parts deal with 

 the Hydrophilidce, Silphidae, Scydmaenidae and Pselaphidae. 



La protection des plantes chez les Romans. By (ieorges Maheux. Vol. 

 XLV, No. 10, April, 1919. An interesting paper, describing the methods 

 employed by the Romans in combatting the ravages of insect enemies of culti- 

 vated plants, including cereals, vegetables and fruit trees. 



La Lycie vulgaire. By J. C. Chapais. Vol. XLVI, No. 2, pp. 22-27. 

 Notes on the habits, life history, and protective mimicry in the geometrid 

 moth, Lycia cognataria Guenee. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society of British Columbia. — Feb., 



1918. No. 12. Systematic Series. Mctoria, 1919. 



This report of 39 pages contains the following papers and addresses: 



Presidential Address. — By E. H. Blackmore. Pp. 5-9. Contains brief 

 accounts of the work of the more active members of the Society. 



Life-history of the Leaf-eating Crane-fly Cylindroloma splendens, Doane 

 {TipulidcF, Diptera). — By Alfred F^. Cameron. Pp. 9-12; 1 pi. An interesting 

 account of the life-history of this peculiar crane-fly, whose larva, unlike those 

 of most Tipulidie, feeds upon the leaves of various plants, both terrestrial 

 and aquatic, and is protected by its green colour and habit of dropping to the 

 ground when disturbed. 



Reared adults copulated in captivity soon after emergence^, and eggs were 

 deposited on the undersides of ihi- leaves of potted jjlanls of the false bugbane 

 {Traiiivetteria ^randis). These were reared through to the adult stage. De- 

 scriptive notes are given of these stages, the i)eculiar structure and function of 

 the ovipositor, and other features of the life-history. Detailed descriptions oi 

 the egg, larva and pupa of this insect appeared in the Aimals of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of America, vol. 



Notes on a Collection of Hemiptera. — By W. Downes. Pp. 13-16. This 

 paper is an annotated list of Homopterous insects of the families Cicadidae, 



