280 THE entomologist's kecord. 



saifittato, Cat., p. 148, Aplecta tincta ah. siipuna (Brit. Xoct., iii., p. 70) 

 becomes ab. ubacurata, Staudiuger, Iris, x., p. 335, Brijopldla perla ab. 

 fiarcscetia (Brit. Noct., i., p. 8) becomes \a,r. perlina, Cat., p. 167. The 

 I'/ij/tdinetra viridaria Bh.fmca, Brit. Noct., iv., p. 60 (1892), becomes 

 ab. inodesta, Carad., Jr/.s, ix., p, 50 (1896), Jocheaera alni ab. suff'nsa 

 (Brit. Noct., i., p. 17, 1891) becomes ab. steinerti, Casp., Soc. Knt., 

 xiii., p. 3 (1898), and so on indefinitely. It will take months of close 

 work to clear up the synonymy thus carelessly created, and it is high 

 time that the German lepidopterists of repute, refused to allow any 

 more duplications of this character. 



It is with great regret that we have to chronicle the death of Miss 

 Eleanor A. Ormerod, LL.D., F.E.S., which took place on July 19th 

 last, in her 74th year. Her services to economic entomology are so 

 well-known that it is superfluous to mention them, but the long series 

 of "Annual Reports " shows clearly the magnitude of her work and 

 the benefit she has conferred on a class of men who, usually ignorant 

 of even the barest elements of entomology, were able to take advantage 

 of her advice to their own great benefit. For her services in this direc- 

 tion, the University of Edinburgh, only last year, conferred on her the 

 honorary degree of LL.D., the first lady so honoured by the University. 

 Her difficulties and her success alike lay in the fact that she was among 

 the pioneers in the particular branch of work on Avhich the best years 

 of her life were lovingly expended. It is difficult to recognise, when 

 one looks at the mass of literature on "economic entomology " that 

 has been turned out in America and other countries, during the last 

 few years, that one owes it almost entirely to the loving labours of 

 Curtis, Newman, and Miss Eleanor Ormerod. 



In the Canadian Entoiitohxiiat, p. 228, Good notes that on October 

 27th, 1900, near Wooster, Ohio, he observed some white masses (that 

 proved to be plant-lice, Schizoncara teanellata, covered with white down) 

 on Ilex verticillata. Among and feeding on the plant-lice he found 

 several larvae of Fermeca tanjinnius, about •75in. in length, and these 

 in a few days changed into the curious monkey-faced pupiu character- 

 istic of this species. He states that he well remembers first finding 

 the larvfe and pupte of Spaljis s-si(/nata in West Africa, and, though 

 the larvte found near Wooster strangely recalled to mind those of the 

 West African species, it was not until the Ohio larvje pupated that he 

 felt sure of their identity, 



Beutenmiiller's Monot/rajdi of the Sesiidac of Aiinrica Nort/i of 

 Mexico, appears not yet to have been received this side of the Atlantic. 

 It should, so far as can be judged from the American notices, be a most 

 useful work. 



Wolley-Dod (Can. Knt., p. 237) records that in 1893, 1891, and 

 1895, he did not see Pyrauieis cardui in Alberta; then for a year or two 

 it was rather common, and it became more common than usual last 

 autumn and what he supposed to be the survivors of this brood appeared 

 in the spring. In early May these had died oft", and the species was not 

 to be seen, but before the end of the month (iMay 25th) the imagines were 

 again in immense numbers. He suspects these latter to be a "flight" 

 from the south. Females were observed ovipositing on sage. Surely 

 if there was a flight, the early spring specimens formed it ; th3 later 

 ones might well bo the progeny of the early ones. 



