210 THE entomologist's record. 



In the Canadian Kntoiiiohxiint for June is an article on the 

 " Canadian Entomological Service," in which is given a short account 

 of the rise and growth of the government organization of economic 

 entomology. So far back as 1884 the Canadian government appointed 

 a Dominion Entomologist to advise agriculturists and others regarding 

 the control of insects pests. Almost from the first Entomology and 

 Botany were associated, but it was not until 1908 that the growth in 

 importance of the two subjects necessitated their separation. The 

 recent rapid opening up of the country and the many and increased 

 opportunities for the introduction of new agricultural pests have 

 needed, year by year, fresh organization to deal with these matters, 

 until at present we find that the Entomological Branch of the Canadian 

 Department of Agriculture consists of a chief. Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, 

 a chief assistant, an assistant for forest insect investigation, another 

 for fruit insect investigation, eight field officers in charge of branch 

 laboratories, and another field officer for forest insect investigation, four 

 inspectors and assistants, seven superintendents of fumigations, with a 

 laboratory assistant and four secretaries. It is now proposed to erect 

 a building to provide offices and laboratories especially for this Depart- 

 ment, apart from the Department of Agriculture. • 



Pt. 1. of the Trails. Ent. Soc. Land, for 1914 was issued in June, and 

 consists of 260 pages with 25 plates, three of which are coloured. It 

 contains two faunistic papers: " New species of Lepidoptera — Heterocera 

 from S.E. Brazil," by E. Dukinfield Jones, and " Cnlicidae from Papua," 

 by F. H. Taylor ; three Kevisions : of " Mexican and Central American 

 Maladiiidae and Melyridae," by G. C. Champion, of " Mexican and 

 Central American C'/iauliounathinae (Telephoridae)" by G. C. Champion, 

 and of " The Tipulid genus Stijrwjiomyia," by F. W. Edwards ; " A 

 new genus and new species of (hUmata from N. Queensland," by 

 Kenneth J. Morton, and a most important paper of scientific investi- 

 gation on the "Egg-laying of Trichiosoma [Tentliredinidae)" by Dr. T. 

 A. Chapman, with seven plates. There are also 32 pages of Proceedings. 



In an article entitled " Exit British Fruit," which appeared a 

 few weeks ago in a paper called Ansirem, after referring to the various 

 pests to which fruit trees are subject, describing the ravages of these, 

 and urging upon growers the necessity of drastic measures to keep the 

 name and fame of British fruit, the writer heads his final paragraph, 

 '• Scientists Wanted." He says : " The evolution of pest's is so rapid 

 that it it is difficult for mere humans to keep pace with it. Not many 

 years ago grease- banding was introduced to allay the ravages of the 

 wingless moth, a pest that moved up the trunks of trees in autumn 

 to lay its eggs in the crevices of the wood. In its passage it was 

 arrested by the grease-band, a kind of sticky flypaper, by which it was 

 entrapped. Scientific observations in Kent go to prove that, in the short 

 space of tirenty years, this particular pest has actually grown wings, and 

 so can circumscribe the grease-bands ! " Truly, scientists are wanted. 



In the July number of the Entomologist Mr. H. Rowland-Brown 

 discusses at length proposals and suggestions for the conservation of 

 Wicken-fen as a nature reserve particularly for entomology. 



Several species of insects new to the British fauna are announced 

 in the pages of the Ent. Mo. Mag. for July. In the Coleoptera Mr. 

 D. Sharp announces that Mr. C. J. C. Pool has detected Dorcatoma 

 punctulata near London, and he gives the difterentiation characters 



