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one constituted genus and at other times an altogether different one. 



Notes. 



At a meeting of the Council of the Geological Society of America 

 held on Wednesday, .\ug. the 27th, it was decided to accept the invitation 

 to visit Ottawa at the coming meetmg to be held in December. 



The Royal Society of Canada and the Logan Club of Ottawa made 

 up of the scientific staff of the Geological Survey Department, had 

 both sent an invitation to die Geological Society. 



Accordingly, the Ottawa brethren of the hammer may expect a 

 large attendance of geologists from all parts of the North American 

 Continent in December. The Geological Society of America numbers 

 some 250 Geologists, all of whom are actively engaged in Geological 

 work. 



Ottawa is es[)ecially favoured as a centre of geologic interes", 

 both on account of the Geological Survey Department having its 

 headquarters here and the Museum of economic minerals and 

 palaeontology being located at the Capital. 



H. M. A. 

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ENTOMOLOGY. 



Edited by W. Haeue Harrington. 



Among the more conspicuous plants ot the August landscape may 

 be indicated Golden-rods, Mulleins, Thistles and Milk-weeds, each of 

 which nourishes insects peculiar to itself. 



The various species of ^olldago make gay the fields and woodsides 

 with myriads of golden plumes to which resort many msects of various 

 orders, and especially of Hymenoptera, Here the honey bee may be 

 found industriously working, in company with many wild relatives, as 

 Bombus, Megachile, Andrena, Apathus. etc., while numerous kmds of 

 fossorial wasps, etc., are generally abundant. 



Occasionally on the leaves may be observed a small gourd-shaped 

 black case, attached firmly by its neck. This is constructed by the 

 larva of a small chrysomelid beetle, Exema gibber, which may be 

 captured by beating or sweeping the flowers, but its little black wrinkled 

 form is liable to be overlooked in the net, from its resemblance to the 



