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the Association has depended upon the Department of x^griculture at 

 Washington for the piibHcation of its proceedings, in the form of an 

 annual Bulletin. Some inconvenience was experienced owing to the 

 unavoidable delay in the appearance of some of the papers, which were 

 of immediate importance. To obviate this difficulty, and also to provide 

 a magazine for the early publication of original observations made by 

 workers in all departments of Economic Entomology, this Journal has 

 been established. It is to be issued bi-monthly, beginning with February 

 of the current year. It is hoped that not only all Entomologists will 

 support the venture by their subscriptions, but also fruit-growers, nursery- 

 men, horticulturists and all others in any way interested in the depreda- 

 tions of insects. 



The number before us contains the first instalment of the papers read 

 at the recent Chicago meeting of the Association, as well as a report of 

 its proceedings. The eighty pages include some very interesting contri- 

 butions, among which may be mentioned : Mr. Wihnon Newell's Notes on 

 the Habits of the Argentine, or "New Orleans" Ant; Mr. W. A. 

 Hooker's papers on the Life-history, &c., of the txoidea, and the Role of 

 Ticks in the Transmission of Disease ; and Mr. W. D. Hunter's discus- 

 sion of the efiects of temperature on the incubation of eggs of Margaro- 

 pus a?mulatus. The magazine is edited by Dr. E. Porter Felt, State 

 Entomologist, Albany, N. Y., with Mr. A. F. Burgess, Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, Washington, as Associate Editor, and an advisory board con- 

 sisting of Drs. Howard, Fletcher, H. T. Fernald, Forbes, Morgan and 

 Osborn. The subscription for non-members of the Association is two 

 dollars per annum, which should be sent to the Business Manager, Prof. 

 E. Dwight Sanderson, Durham, N. H. 



Bulletin of the British Columbia Entomological Society : Edited 

 by R. V. Harvey, M. A., Victoria, B. C. No. 8. December, 1907. 

 This number contains a list of the Syrphid?e of British Columbia, by 

 Prof. R. C. Osburn, and a continuation of Mr. Harvey's Notes on Noc" 

 tuid?e, treating of five species of Autographa. This little quarterly always 

 contains some valuable and interesting matter, and must be of great assist- 

 ance to Entomologists in the Pacific province. 



