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Education " and concluded with an exhibition of lantern slides of plants, insects and other 

 natural objects. During the remaining session a number of valuable practical and scientific 

 papers were read , these are published, together with the reports of the Officers, Branches and 

 Sections of the Society, in the 32nd Annual Report recently issued by the Ontario Department 

 of Agriculture. 



This volume of 128 pages is illustrated with two plates, a portrait of the late Miss Eleanor 

 A. Ormerod, and a series of figures of the Moth Hyphantria cuuea, three maps and fifty-eight 

 wood cuts in the text. The principal articles are papers on the Insects of the year 1901 by the 

 Directors, Messrs. Young, Evans and Johnston, andbyProfessor Lochheadand Mr. J. A. Moffat. 

 " The Painted Lady Butterfly (Pyrameis Cardui) " and the " Entomological Record, " a new 

 and highly important feature, which is to be continued annually, by Dr. James Fletcher. " The 

 Noith American Fall Web worms, " illustrated by the beautiful plate already referred to. by 

 Mr. Henry H. Lyman. "The trend of Insect diffusion in North America", the " Imported' 

 Willow and Poplar Curculio, " and a singular case of a Cheese mite living in the culture intended 

 for the destruction of the Chinch-bug, by Professor F. M. Webster. Two useful papers by 

 Prof. Lochhead on the "Hibernation of Insects " and " Nature Study Lessons on the Mosquito ", 

 A paper by Mr. J. Alston Moffat setting forth his reasons for believing that the Archippus 

 butterfly, whose habits he has studied for many years, does not hibernate. Interesting papers 

 on collectmg and field wor'k : by Mr. Evans on the attractive powers of an electric lamp ; Mr.. 

 Winn on his wonderful captures at a clump of milk-weed at dusk ; Mr. Walker on "A collect- 

 ing trip in South-western Ontario," and Mr. Gibson on "A day at the Mer Bleue. " Dr. Fyles 

 contributes a paper on " Crickets "; Mr. Stevenson on " Commercial Entomology " , and Mr- 

 Williams on "The Food of the Grass Snake, " which he finds to be Cut-worms. The volume 

 closes with a report from the North-west (Canada) Entomological Society, by Mr. Gregson ; 

 and obituary notices of the late Miss Ormerod and Mr. Otto Lugger, by the Editor. 



"The Canadian Entomologist, " the monthly magazine of the Society, is now in its 34th 

 year of publication. The volume for 1901 contains 348 pages, and is illustrated with five full 

 page plates and eleven figures from original drawings. The contributors number sixty-two, and 

 represent Canada, the United States, England, Germany, Luxembourg and India. The principal 

 articles may be classified as follows ; Descriptions of new genera, species and varieties in Lepi- 

 doptera by Messrs. H. H. Lyman, A. G. Weeks, A. Busck and Dr. Wm. Barnes ; Orthoptera 

 by Dr. S. H. Scudder, Prof. A. P. Morse and Mr. A. N. Caudell ; Hemiptera by Mr. E. D. 

 Ball and Prof. H. Osborn ; Diptera by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, Messrs. C. Robertson and 

 D. W. Coi^uillett ; Coleoptera by Prof. H. F. Wickham and Mr. H. 0. Fall ; Hymenoptera by 

 Messrs. E. S. G. Titus, W. H. Ashmead, T. D. A. Cockerell and C. Robertson ; Neuroptera 

 by Mr. N. Banks ; and Homoptera (Hemiptera) by Messrs. G. B. King and T. D. A. Cockerell. 

 Eleven new genera and sub genera are described and 123 new species and varieties. 



Papers on Classification and Systematic Entomology : Ontario Acrididaj by Mr. F. M. 

 Walker ; lists of Lepidoptera from Alberta by Mr. Wolley Dod, from Southern Manitoba by 

 Mr. E. F. Heath ; the Moths of Manitoba by Mr. A. W. Hanham and the Butterflies of Nebraska 

 by Mr. M. Cary ; Cicadidfe by Dr. A. D. McGillivray ; the Genera and species of Coccidfc by 

 Professor Cockerell ; the Genus Catocala by Professor G. H. French and Mr. O. C. Poling ; 

 Spilosoma congrua by Mr. H. H. Lyman ; Generic names in Orthoptera by Mr. J. A. G. Rehn ; 

 discussions of Lepidoptera by Dr. H. G. Dyar, Prof. J. B. Smith and Prof. J. R. Grote ; Sta- 

 phylinidie by Dr. E. Wasmann ; Coccidfe by Mr. G. B King ; Collecting Notes on Kansas 

 Coleoptera by Mr. W. Knaus ; American Bees by the Rev. T. B. Morice and Professor 

 Cockerell ; The Genus Osmia by Mr. E. S. G Titus ; the Respiration of Aleurodes by Prof. C. 

 W. Wood worth ; the Xiphidiini of the Pacific Coast by Prof. A, P. Morse ; Note on Baeus hy 

 Mr, W. H. Harrington. 



