LXXVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



Arizona; Mr. G. B. King on Records of Coccidae; Dr. Fyles on Quebec 

 Diptera ; Mr. J. D, Evans on the Coleoptera of North Western Canada ; 

 Mr. W. T. Clarke on Calif ornian Aphididae; Butterfly notes from 

 Toronto by Mr. J. B. Williams; Collecting in February by j\Ir. J. R. 

 de la Torre Bueno ; the capture of ^gialites dehilis in British Columbia 

 by the Eev. J. H. Keen. 



Among the miscellaneous papers may be mentioned a house-boat 

 collecting trip in China by Mr. C. L. Marlatt; a Coleopterous Conun- 

 drum by Mrs. A. T. Slosson; a Migration of Butterflies in Venezuela by 

 Mr. A. H. Clark; the habits of Ranatra fusca by Mr. Bueno; the 

 Spinning methods of Polyphemus by Mr. J. W. Cockle; papers on 

 Coleoptera by Prof. Wickham, on Bees by Prof. Cockerell, and Entomo- 

 logical notes by Mr. H. H. Lyman. There are also several reviews of 

 new books by the Editor and others. 



The thirty-fourth annual report of the Society was published by 

 the Ontario Department of Agriculture in March last. Its distribution 

 has unfortunately been very limited owing to the destruction of 5,000 

 copies by the disastrous fire in Toronto on the 19th of April. The 

 volume consists of 116 pages, illustrated with a portrait of the Eev. 

 G. W. Taylor, four halftone plates of orchards afl'ected by the San José 

 scale, and sixty figures in the text; all of the blocks of these illustra- 

 tions have also been lost in the fire. 



The volume contains satisfactory reports from the oSicers of the 

 Society, the Sections in Botany, Microscopy and Ornithology, the 

 Branches at ]\Iontreal, Quebec and Toronto, and from the directors, 

 Messrs. Young, Grant and Balkwill, on Insects of the year. Further 

 notes on the season of 1903 are given by Messrs. Stevenson and Kilman, 

 and extended reports by Dr. Fletcher and Prof. Lochhead. The latter, 

 in his annual address as President, gave an interesting account of " The 

 Progi-ess of Economic Entomology in Ontario," and furnished further 

 papers on " The Present Condition of the San José Scale in Ontario," 

 a-nd " A Key to the Insects afiiecting Small Fruits." Dr. Fletcher 

 contributed his very valuable "Entomological Record for 1903"; Mr. 

 Arthur Gibson papers on " The Insects affecting Basswood," and " An 

 Interesting Enemy of the Iris" ; Dr. Bethune on " A Menace to the 

 Shade-trees of London, Ontario," " The Great Leopard Moth," and a 

 memoir of the late Professor Grote ; Dr. Fyles on " The Food-habits of 

 Hymenopterous larvae"; Mr. Jarvis on "Fly-tormentors of New Ontario" 

 and a list of injurious insects taken in the Abitibi Region; Mr. A. J. 

 Dennis on a remarkable experience in collecting moths at nignt m 

 Manitoba. IDr. S. H. Seudder gives an interesting account of his 

 "Hunting for Io?sil Insects" in Wyoming and Colorado; and the 



