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enthusiasts who met in Toronto in April, 1863, for the purpose of or- 

 ganizing the Society, but three now survive. Dr. "\Vm. Saunders, Eev. 

 Dr. Bethune and Mr. E. Baynes Eeed; it is gratifying to note that they 

 have continued to take an active interest in the welfare of the Society 

 from that time to the present. 



" The Canadian Entomologist,'' the monthly magazine of the 

 Society, is now in its 36th year of publication. The volume for 1903 

 contains 352 pages, and is illustrated with six full-page plates and 

 fifteen figures in the text, all from original drawings. The contributors 

 number sixty-one, and represent Canada, the United States, Great 

 Britain, Germany, Luxemburg and Cuba. The principal articles may 

 be grouped as follows: — Descriptions of new genera, species and 

 varieties of Lepidoptera by Prof. J. B. Smith, Dr. H. G. Dyar and Mr. 

 G. M, Dodge; in Hymenoptera by Dr. ^Y. H. Ashmead, Profs. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell and H. T. Fernald, Messrs. J. C. Bradley, A. W. Morrill, J. >' '. 

 Crawford, E. A. Cooley, C. Eobertson, Eev. T. W. Fyles and Dr. S. 

 Graenicher; in Diptera by Messrs. D. W. Coquillett, F. V. Theobald, 

 and J. S. Hine; in Coleoptera by Prof. H. F. Wickham and Mr. C. 

 Schaeffer; in Hemiptera-Homoptera by Prof. Cockerell, Messrs. A. W. 

 Morrill, E. A. Cooley, A. L. Quaintance, G. B. King, E. B. Ball 

 and W. T. Clarke; in Hemiptera-Heteroptera by Mr. C. Stevenson; 

 and in Orthoptera by Messrs. E. M. Walker and E. S. G. Titus. Thirty- 

 nine new genera are described, 106 new species and 8 new varieties 

 and sub-species. 



Life-histories, more or less complete, are given of the following 

 insects: Crocigraplia Normani and several Canadian species of Apan- 

 tesis by Mr. Arthur Gibson; the strawberry Aleyrodes (A. Packardi) 

 by Mr. A. W. Morrill; Hydroecia appassionata found boring in Sarra- 

 cenia by Mr. H. Bird; the Apple Bud-borer {Stelganoptijcha pyrkolana) 

 by Prof. E. D. Sanderson; Mamestra laudahilis by Dr. H. G. Dyar; and 

 several species of Mosquitoes by Mr. F. V. Theobald. 



Papers on Classification, Nomenclature and Systematic Entomo- 

 logy ; the Wasps of the super-family Vespoidea by Dr. Ashmead ; Arctic 

 Hymenoptera by Mr. W. H. Harrington; Nomadinae and Epeolinae 

 by Mr. C. Eobertson; Prof. Aldrich and Mr. Coquillett on Culex; Mr. 

 J. C. Bradley on the genus Platylabus; Mr. E, M. Walker on the genus 

 Podisma in Eastern North America; Dr. Dyar and j\Ir. A. Bacot on 

 Aglia tau; Mrs. Fernald on Coccidae; Dr. Fletcher and Prof. Grote on 

 Lepidoptera; Prof. Cockerell and Mr. Titus on Hymenoptera. 



Collecting notes, and papers on the geographical distribution of 

 species, are given by Prof. A. D. Hopkins on Forest Insect Explora- 

 tions; Mr. Coquillett on the Phorid genus ^Enigmatias in Denmark and 



