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Acrididae by E. M. Walker ; Coccidae by Mrs. Fernald ; Bombidae by Prof. Oockerell ; 

 Halictinae by Mr. C. Robert.snn ; Orthoptera by Mr. J. A. G. Rehn : and an article on the 

 scientific name of the Cherry Fruit fly by Prof. M. V. Slingerland. 



Life- histories are given with more or less completeness of the following insects : The 

 Variable Cut- worm (Mumestra Atlantica) by Dr. Fletcher and Mr. A. Gibson; Ardia virgo 

 and phalerata and Penlhina hebesana by Mr. Gibson ; several species of Hydroecia, illustrated 

 by a beautiful coloured plate, by Mr. Henry Bird ; Lycaena Scudderii by Mr. H. H. Lyman ; 

 Corethra Brakeleyi by Prof. J. B. Smith ; Lyda fasciata by Mr. R. F. Pearsall ; the egg of the 

 Water-scorpion (R^natra) by Mr. R. H. Pettit ; and the larva of a Datana by Dr. Kunze. 

 Collecting notes, containing observations of much interest, are given by Mr. E. F. Heath on 

 Manitoban Lepidoptera ; Mr. W. H. Harrington on Coleoptera ; Mr. E. D. Harris on Cicin- 

 delidae ; Mr. Geo. B. King on Coccidae and the Rev. Dr. Fyles records the capture near 

 Quebec of a Tortoise beetle new to Canada. 



Among the miscellaneous papers may be mentioned a discussion on labels for specimens ; 

 " What is a genus ? " by Mr. H. H. Ljman ; " The formation of generic nanieiL," by Prof. J. 

 M. Aldrich ; "The- ecology of In.sect Sounds," by Mr. Frank E. Lutz ; and an account of the 

 changes in the insect Fauna of northern Illinois by Prof. F. M. Webster. 



The thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Society was held in London at the end of October 

 last. Its proceedings were opened by a conference on the Destructive Pea-weevil, which has 

 caused an immense amount of loss in the Province of Ontario during the last few^ years. The 

 discussion was opened by Dr. Fletcher, who gave a full description of the insect and the 

 ravages it commits, its distribution and the best methods of controlling it ; other speakers were 

 Prof. Lochhead, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Fisher and Prof. James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for 

 Ontario. Resolutions were adopted regarding the difl'usion (jf information among the com- 

 munity, and requesting the Provincial Government to send a competent staff of men to the 

 rural districts of the country whose duty it should be to give the farmers practical lessons on 

 the best methods of eradicating the pest. 



Mr. George E. Fisher, tie Provincial- Inspector of Scale Insects, gave a report on the 

 insects of the year in the Niagara and Hamilton districts, and described his experiments with 

 the lime and sulphur wash for the destruction of the San Jose Scale, and their successful 

 results. , 



At a public meeting in the evening the Rev. Dr. Fyles read his presidential address on 

 " Insect Life," illustr^ited by a series of beautiful coloured diagrams that he had himself pre. 

 pared ; and Prof. Lochhead gave a lantern lecture on " Some Noted Butterfly-hunters and 

 some Common Butterflies." 



The proceedings at the several sessions of the meeting and the papers read are given i\i 

 full in the thirty-third Annual Repoit of the Society, which was published by the Ontario 

 Department of Agriculture in March last. It consists of 132 pages, illustrated with 108 engrav- 

 ings in the text and photogravure portraits of Mr. E. Baynes Reed, one of the original mem- 

 bers of the Society and for many years one of its most active officers, and of Mr. W. E. , 

 Saunders, the present energetic Secretary. Reports are given from the various Oflicers and 

 Sections and the branches at Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, and also fiom tie Norlh-West 

 (Canada) Entomological Society. 



Among the papers read may be mentioned the valuable reports on the insects of the year 

 in their districts by the Directors, Messrs. C. H. Young, Ottawa ; J. D. Evans, Trenton ; E.. 

 M. Walker, Toronto ; G. E Fisher, Hamilton and Niagara ; and J. A. Balk will, London. 

 These are supplemented by further notes on the season by Messrs. C. Stevenson, J. A. Moffatl 

 Prof. Lochhead and Dr. Janes Fletcher. Mr. Lyman contributed a paper on the remarkable 

 habits of the Archippus butterfly, and the points in its history on which further information is 

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