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also of families, or even separate genera. The lepidoptera and coleoptera have always been 

 fairly well worked, but specialists in the other orders are few, notwithstanding the good work 

 which doubtless can be done. The hymenoptera, diptera, and hemiptera have a few devotees, 

 but many of the other orders are almost entirely neglected. The orders which perhaps most 

 demand attention at the present time, are the orthoptera and the neuroptera. It is strange, in 

 view of the enormous damage sometimes done by locusts, that so few students have devoted 

 attention to them. The odonata also offer an almost unworked held for original research. It 

 is to be hoped that, before long, some will take up these orders more energetically than has 

 been done in the past. 



As a matter of course the reference collections, including all orders of insects of the Ento- 

 mological Society of Ontario, at London, of the Division of Entomology, at Ottawa, and of the 

 Agricultural College at Guelph, are being added to continually. To the best of their ability 

 the officers at the Division of Entomology, at Ottawa, will name, or get named, insects in all 

 orders, and will be glad to help or advise in any way in their power all applications for infor- 

 mation concerning insects. 



Collectors in the field have frequent opportunities of catching insects belonging to other 

 orders than those which they study. I would point out that very little trouble is required to 

 pin such specimens without setting them, and attach a label with the date and locality. These 

 may then be put on one side in a cigar bo.x, to be sent when convenient to specialists. In this 

 way, with little labour great service may be done to entomology. If Canadian collectors will 

 save specimens as suggested and forward them to me (parcels and letters concerning insects 

 may be sent to me without postage), T shall be pleased to forward them to any specialists they 

 may designate. The information conveyed with these specimens as to the distribution and 

 date of occurrence of insects will be of great value in the official work of the Division of Entom- 

 ology, and collectors will be at no expense for postage. 



The following are making special studies : — 



Lepidoi'Tera. 



Rearimj from the egii. Messrs. Lyman and Brainerd, of Montreal, Rev. Dr. Fyles, Quebec, 

 Messrs. C. H. Young, Hurdman's Bridge. A. Gibson, and J. Fletcher, Ottawa, J.W. Cockle, 

 Kaslo, B. C. 



Div.rnaU. H. H. Lyman, Montreal, J. Fletcher, Ottawa, F. H. WoUey-Dod, Millarville, 

 Alt a 



NoctunifiblK. The Genus Hydnecia, Messrs. A. F. Winn and H. H. Lyman, of Montreal, 

 and J. \. Moflfixt, of London. The genus Apantesis (Arctia) A. Gibson, Ottawa. The Genus 

 Carneades, F. H. VVolley-Did, Millarville, Alta. The Geometridae. — Several collectors have 

 agreed to make a special study of the geometers. The Rev. G. W. Taylor on the Pacific Coast 

 and Mr. W. Mcintosh, on the Atlantic seaboard, and the Division of Entomology of the 

 Government Experimental Farm at Ottawa, have already begun a critical study of these 

 moths. Messrs A. W. Hanhani, and E. F. Heath have made large collections of the 

 geometers of Manitoba. It is a favourite group with Mr. Hanham, who now lives at Victoria, 

 and he will doubtless help in working up the Vancouver Island species. The Rev. G. W. 

 Taylor, at a recent meeting of the British Columbia Entomological Society, showed four 

 drawers of geometers containing 700 specimens representing 144 good species, nearly all of 

 which had been taken this year at Wellington, B. C. Mr. Cockle has collected geometers 

 aa8iduouslyj[intheKootenays,and so much work on these interesting moth sis now in progress that 

 I have decided to hold over all references to captures in this family until next year's Record, 

 when it is to be hoped that Dr. Dyar's anxiously looked for catalogue of the lepidoptera of 

 North America, will have apppfiared. In the same way, it is perhaps advisable, in the mean- 



