60 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



TO OUR PATRONS. 



At a special meeting of the Council of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario, held on the 19th of February, 1874, Mr. J. Williams, being about 

 to remove to Montreal, tendered his resignation as Secretary-Treasurer, 

 which was accepted with regret. Mr. J. H. McMechan having kindly 

 consented to undertake the duties of the office, was unanimously elected 

 as his successor. Our friends and correspondents will please bear this 

 change in mind, and address all remittances and business communications 

 to J. H, McMechan, Secretar3^-Treasurer, London, Ontario. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



PiERis Rap^. — About the last of September, 1873, I netted the first 

 Rape Butterfly that I have ever seen in this part of the country — town- 

 ship of Dunn, county of Haldimand. It is a male butterfly, as described 

 fig. 8, vol. 5, No. 3, Canadian Entomologist. — F. C. L. 



Vanessa G. album, — I have lately received from the north-west 

 coast of British America a specimen of Vaiiessa G. album. I do not 

 remember hearing of its being found so far from the Atlantic before — W- 

 H. Edwards. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Illustrations of the Zyi,'aenid:e and Bombjxldae of North America, by R. H. Stretch, San Francisco, 

 California. Parts 8 and 9, with three colored ])lates. 



The Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science, Vol. i, No. i, 8vo., pp. 96. 



Catalogue of the Phalaenidtc of California, No. 2, by A. S. Packard, jr., Jl. D., 8vo., pji. -10, with one 

 photogra])h plate. Fi'om the Proceedings of the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol xvi. 



Nature, to February 12, 1874. 



Science Gossip, February, 1S74. 



Newman's Entomologist, February, 1874. 



The Zoologist, Februaix 1874. 



Le Naturaliste Canadien, Fevrier, 1874, 



The Western Rural, Chicago, to March 7, 1874. 



Prairie Fanner to March 7, 1874. 



Indiana Fanner to Feb. 28, ,1874. 



Canada Fanner, to ilarch 2, 1874. 



Maine Farmer to Feb. 14, 1S74. 



