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without saying, that these new publications are just as excellent 

 in every particular as the two former ones. 



" Macrolepidoptera of the World" is also published in a 

 separate English Edition by the "Verlag des Seitz'schen Werkes," 

 Stuttgart, Germany. Wilhelm Lehr, Baltimore, Md. 



The officers of the London Biological Club, whose names were 

 omitted from our notice in the May number (p. 184), are as fol- 

 lows: President, Dr. H. W. Hill; Vice-President, Dr. S. Wolverton; 

 Curator, Mr. J. F. Calvert; Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. J. W. Noble. 



THE OCCURRENCE OF THE HOUSE CENTIPEDE, 

 SCUTIGERA FORCEPS RAF., IN CANADA. 

 When retiring for the night on April 15th I was most in- 

 terested to capture in my bathroom at the hotel in which I was 

 staying in Toronto, an adult female specimen of this remarkable 

 myriapod, whose occurrence in Canada has not been previously 

 recorded, so far as I am aware. 



It is a southern species, its normal habitat being the Southern 

 States. As early as 1849 it was observed in Pennsylvania, and it 

 has gradually spread northward. Mr. R. V. Chamberlin informs 

 me that the most northerly locality which he has recorded from it 

 is Boston, Mass., and that it also occurs at Ithaca, N. Y. 



The captured specimen, after enabling me to study its method 

 of capturing flies, died a few days after my return to Ottawa. 

 Scutigera feeds on house-flies, roaches and other household insects, 

 springing on them and imprisoning them in its unusually long legs. 

 An account of its habits is given by Marlatt in Howard & Marlatt's 

 "Household Insects" (Bull. No. 4, N. S. Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. of 

 Agric, pp. 47-50, 1896. C. Gordon Hewitt. 



Professor Walter C. O'Kane, Entomologist to the New 

 Hampshire Experiment Station, and Professor of Economic Ento- 

 mology in New Hampshire College, has been elected Professor of 

 Zoology and Entomology at the Ohio State University, from which 

 he graduated in 1897. He is widely known as the author of an 

 excellent work on injurious insects, published in 1912. 



