42 THE REPORT OF THE No. 19 



Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno gives tlie first full account of tlie Water-bugs 

 Belostoma flurmnea and Ranatra qvkidridentata. 



The series of articles on Practical ,and Popular Entomology has been 

 continued and the papers published last year are : The Dragon-flies and 

 Damsel-flies by Prof. Franklin Sherman, Jr.; Household Insects by Prof. 

 Wm. Lochhead; Winter Retreats of Insects by Rev. Dr. Fyles; Some Beetles 

 of early May by Rev. Dr. Bethune; Work for June Caterpillar hunting by 

 Mr. A. Gibson; Mites affecting Farm Homesteads by Mr. T. D. Jarvis; The 

 Oyster-shell Bark-louse by Mr. T. D. Jarvis; The Bean Weevil by Mr. A. 

 Gibson; The Locust Mite by Mr. T. D. Jarvis. 



Articles descriptive of new species of Lepidoptera are by Mr. A. G. 

 Weeks, Jr.; Mr. August Busck, Mr. A. Cosens, Rev. G. W. Taylor, Mr. 

 John A. Grossbeck. Coleoptera by Mr. Chas. Schaeffer, and Mr. H. C. Fall. 

 Hemiptera by Dr. E. Bergroth, Diptera by -Miss C. S. Ludlow, Dr. M. 

 Grabham, Hon. N". Chas. Rothschild. Hymenoptera by Mr. J. C. Crawford, 

 Mr., Myron H. Swenk and Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell. Orthoptera by Mr. A. N. 

 Caudell. Coccidee by Mr. R. S. Woglum. 



Papers on Classification include Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy's Catalogue of 

 Aphidte; The Classification of Culicidte by Prof. S. W. Williston; The 

 Perlidee by Mr. Nathan Banks ; Synopsis of Bees of Oregon, Washington and 

 British Columbia, by Mr. H, L. Yiereck and associates; Notes on the classi- 

 fication of the superfamily Miroidse by Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy. 



The following are among the papers on miscellaneous topics : A North 

 American Entomologists' Union by Mr, H. H, Lyman; Records of Orthoptera 

 from the Canadian North-west by Dr. E. M. Walker; The Burrows of 

 Cicindela by Mr. W. T. Davis; A fossil Water-bug by Prof. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell; The snow-fly, Chionea valga by Mr. C. N. Ainslie; Notes on 

 Hemiptera taken near Lake Temagami by Mr. E. P. Van Duzee; Geometrid 

 Notes by Mr. Richard F. Pearsall. 



Space has been devoted to records of the meetings of the Branches at 

 Toronto, Guelph, Montreal, Quebec and Vancouver which are all in flourish- 

 ing condition. The appearance of the new books and pamphlets on Entomo- 

 logical subjects has been promptly chronicled. 



The Society has, as usual, furnished the Ontario Department of Agri- 

 culture with an account of its annual meeting, and a number of articles of 

 popular and economic nature. These have just been published under the 

 well-known title of The Annual Report of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario. Report 37 contains 120 pages illustrated by 6 beautiful half-tone 

 plates of insect galls found on plants of various kinds, 3^ cuts in the text 

 and a portrait of our last year's President, Mr. John D. Evans. Among the 

 papers may be mentioned : Parasitism of Carpocapsa pomonella, (the Codling 

 Moth), by Dr. Brodie; A Hunt for a Borer by Mr. H. H. Lyman; Insect Galls 

 of Ontario, by Mr. T. D. Jarvis; Hemiptera, by Rev. Dr. Fyles; Injurious 

 Insects of 1906 in Ontario, by Rev. Dr. Bethune; Basswood, or Linden, 

 Insects, by Mr. A. Gibson; Insects Injurious to Ontario Crops in 1906, by 

 Dr. James Fletcher. 



Dr. Fletcher's Entomological Record for 1906 requires 19 pages, is full 

 of notes on the occurrence and distribution of the rarer species of Canadian 

 insects, and becomes each year more valuable. 



In conclusion your Delegate drew attention to the fact that the much 

 dreaded Brown-tail Moth had established itself in Nova Scotia and hoped that 

 immediate and thorough action would be taken to rid the country of an insect, 

 which, if allowed to breed without check would prove disastrous to the far 

 famed apple orchards of the Annapolis Valley. 



