THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 115 



Eighth Report of the Injurious and other Insects of the State 

 OF New York for the Year 1S91. By J. A. Lintner, Ph. D., 

 State Entomologist, Albany, 1893. 

 Anything published by Dr. Lintner is sure to contain much valuable 

 information and to be highly interesting, whether the subjects treated of 

 are new to us or not. The report before us fully supports this statement. 

 It treats of a large number of insects, injurious or otherwise, and gives in 

 most cases a life history of each, including the author's own observations, 

 which are always accurate and clearly detailed. Attention may especially 

 be drawn to the accounts odheRasphenyGeometerfSync/i/orag/aucariaJ, 

 the Birch-leaf Bucculatrix (B. Caiiadensisella), and the Pear-midge {Dip- 

 losis pyrivora). An appendix contains some very interesting popular 

 lectures on Economic Entomology, which are well worth perusal. The 

 only drawback to the report is the late date of its publication, which is 

 more than two years after the observations recorded in it were made. 



Report of the Entomologist and Botanist (James Fletcher, F. R. 

 S. C, F. L. S.), Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, 1894. 



Mr. Fletcher's reports are always interesting and valuable, and the 

 present record of the chief insect attacks of last year and his observations 

 upon them, is not less so than its predecessors. The season of 1893, as 

 far as destructive insects were concerned, was only remarkable for the 

 superabundance of locusts (grasshoppers) and the consequent damage in- 

 flicted upon oats and many other field and garden crops. Other attacks 

 were for the most part of the famiHar kinds which we have always with 

 us ; these are briefly mentioned in the report, while more attention is paid 

 to the serious injury caused to grain crops in Manitoba and the North- 

 west by cut-worms, the ravages of locusts, granary insects at the Chicago 

 Exhibition, the Horn-fly, etc. Very interesting accounts are also given 

 of Silpha bituberosa, which attacks vegetables in the Northwest Terri- 

 tories, and Polyphylla decemlineata, which was very injurious to shrubs of 

 various kinds in a nursery at Victoria, B. C. 



In the botanical section of the report there are two papers especially 

 noteworthy, those, namely, on grass for the protection of shores and 

 harbours, and on the " Tumble-weeds" of the Northwest. The pamphlet 

 is illustrated by a handsome full page picture of Mr. Fletcher's grass plots 

 at the Experimental Farm, which are full of interest to every visitor, and 

 thirty wood-cuts. It is gratifying to observe how steadily the author's 

 reputation is growing, and how highly his work has come to be appre- 

 ciated from one end of the Dominion to the other. 



