140 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



EDITORIAL SUMMARY. 



We have been kindly favored with a copy of the " Sixth Annual Report 

 on the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects of the State of Missouri," by 

 C. V. Riley, State Entomologist, 8vo., pp. 1 60, with 55 illustrations. Both 

 entomologists and agriculturists are laid under lasting obligations to Mr. 

 Riley for these excellent yearly reports on the life history and depredations- 

 of many of our insects. The present Report opens with " Notes of the 

 Year," under which heading there are given some practical observations, 

 on the Codling Moth, the Colorado Potato Beetle and the Cotton Worm. 

 Next follows a lengthy and exhaustive chapter of 56 pages on the Grape 

 Phylloxera, in which is brought together in a consecutive form all the- 

 facts hitherto published in reference to this interesting insect. The Blue 

 Caterpillars of the Vine then claim attention, each species being nicely 

 illustrated. Detailed accounts are given also of Ham Beetles, the Clover- 

 AVorm, the legged Maple Borer, the Raspberry Root Borer, the Northern 

 Brenthian and the Jumping Sumach Beetle. A chapter on Beneficial 

 Insects is next in order, in which the life history of a parasite on the 

 common white grub is detailed. Then follow observations on the 

 Dominican Case Bearer, the Yucca Moth, Hackberry Butterflies, closing 

 with an interesting chapter on the Katydids. Mr. Riley seems admirably 

 adapted to fill the position in which he has been placed, and we sincerely 

 hope he may long be spared to prosecute the work he loves so well. 



Interesting Captures. — Mr. F. C. Lowe, of Dunnville, has recently 

 been on a collecting tour in the county of Essex, and we have been 

 favored with a sight of some of his captures. Among the more interesting 

 insects secured, we would especially mention a very handsome and perfect 

 specimen of Papilio marceHus, with the ground color an unusually fine 

 pale green. Mr. Lowe saw three of these insects on the wing in the 

 neighborhood of North Ridge, about four miles from Essex Centre, on 

 the Canada Southern R. R, but only succeeded in capturing one of them.. 

 Papilio thoas — several taken. This insect was quite common in almost 

 every clover field in that neighborhood. Mr. Lowe took two specimens 

 of thoas last season on the River St. Clair, near Port Lambton. Thyreiis 

 nessiis also common in clover fields ; Hesp. oiieiis, several specimens ; also' 

 the following, all captured between the loth and 20th June : Erebia 

 ncp/ie/c, common ; Eudamiis tifyfus, common ; Papilio tiinius and P. 

 troilus ; Niso7iiades catiilius, not rare ; M. tharos, common ; P. Americana, 

 common ; Hcsp. bathyllus, rather plentiful ; Hcsp. zabulon, very common;. 

 JSIisoniades persins, Trichiits bidois and Desmocenis palliatus. 



