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"hundreds of thousands of acres of wheat may be either totally, or so badly 

 injured as to reduce the yield 50 to 75 per cent, and the monetary losses expressed 

 in dollars would run far up into the millions." 



Agriculturists, at the time I have alluded to, were at their wits' end to dis- 

 cover checks upon the destroyers. The checks came, but they were not of man's 

 devising. Doubtless, in the beginning of the world that now is, such interruptions 

 and disturbances in the order of nature, as the Hessian Fly plague — 



" Deep in God's foreknowledge lay." 



And it was He who brought to bear the minute antagonists of the fly, that 

 are so well figured in the bulletin I have mentioned, viz.: PoUgnotus hiemalis, 

 Merisus destructor, Platygaster lierrichii, Bceotomus suhapieriL^. 



A bulletin on the Hessian Fly has also been written by Mr. Norman Griddle, 

 and published by direction of the Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa. In it a full 

 description of the pest, its life-history, and its operations are given. A reference 

 to its hymenopterous parasites is also made. 



Such investigations as Mr. Webster and Mr. Griddle, and others of our prac- 

 tical Entomologists, are carrying on, dignify our favorite study, and raise it far 

 above trivialities and hobbies. In following out the life-histories of our insect 

 friends and insect foes, and showing how wonderfully they work for the general 

 good, they — 



" Justify the ways of God to man." ' 



In pointing out the best methods of operating under the vicissitudes of nature, 

 of remedying evils, and advancing benefits, their work is ennobled, for the are 

 "workers together with God." 



HYMENOPTERA PARASITICA-hICHNEUMONID^ TAKEN IN THE PROVINCE 

 OF QUEBEC BY THE REV. DR. FYLES. 



ICHNEUMONID^. 



Ichneumon annuUpes Cresson. Levis, rare. 

 Ichneumon canadensis Cresson. Levis, common. 

 Ichneumon cincticornis Cresson. Levis, common. 

 Ichneumon comes Cresson. Levis, common. 

 Ichneumon creperus Cresson. Levis, common. 

 Ichneumon extrematus Cresson. Levis, rare. 

 Ichneumon flavicornis Cresson. Levis, common. 

 Ichneumon flavizonatus Cresson. Levis, common. 

 Ichneumon grandis Brulle. Levis. 

 Ichneumon insolens Cresson. Levis. 

 Ichneumon jucundus Brulle. Levis, rare. 

 Ichneumon Iwtus Brull6. Levis, common. 

 Ichneumon malacus Say. Levis, rare. 

 Ichneumon paratus Say. Levis, rare. 

 Ichneumon pictifrons Cresson. Levis. 

 Ichneumon promptus Cresson. Levis, rare. 

 Ichneumon rufiventris Brulle. Levis, rare. 

 Ichneumon sublatus Cresson. Levis, common. 

 Ichneumon unifasciatorius Say. Levis, common. 

 Ichneumon versaMlis Cresson. Levis, common. 

 Ichneumon wilsoni Cresson. Levis, rare. 

 Ichneumon xanthropus Ashmead. Levis, rare. 

 Amblyteles indistinctus Provancher. Levis, rare. 

 Amblyteles guebecensis Provancher. Levis, rare. 

 Amblyteles rufizonatus Cresson. Levis, rare. 

 Amblyteles subrufus Cresson. Levis, common. 

 Amblyteles saturalis Say. Levis, rare. 

 Trogus brullei Cresson. Levis, common. 



