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tive territorial divisions, and by Messrs. Moffat, Bethune and Fyles on the 
season of 1899. 
The report concludes with an account of the first annual meeting 
held at Lacombe, Alberta, in November last, of the new and vigorous 
North-West (Canada) Entomological Society, which is fortunate in hay- 
ing Mr. Percy B. Gregson, of Waghorn, as its energetic President. The 
report of its Council, the President’s address, and papers by Dr. Bethune 
on “The Use of Entomology,” Dr. Henry George on “The Pocket 
Gopher,” and an address by Mr. Henry H. Lyman, are published in full. 
The Librarian states that the library of the Society now contains 
1,627 bound volumes, besides a large number of pamphlets and periodi- 
cals. The chief additions to the cabinets of insects have come from 
Manitoba and Cuba. 
Four distinguished entomologists were elected honorary members 
of the Society, viz :—Dr. L. O. Howard, United States Entomologist, 
Washington, D.C.; Professor John B. Smith, Se.D., Rutgers College, 
New Brunswick, N.J.; Professor F. M. Webster, Wooster, Ohio, and 
Professor H. F. Wickham, M.A., Iowa City, Iowa. 
The Society has continued to publish its monthly magazine, “The 
Canadian Entomologist,” which was begun in 1868, and of which the 
thirty-second volume is now being issued. The thirty-first volume was 
completed in December last, and consisted of 380 pages, illustrated 
with 6 photo-gravure plates and 36 wood-cuts; 30 new genera of insects 
are described and 92 new species. The contributors number 60, of 
whom sixteen are residents in various parts of the Dominion, 39 in the 
United States, and one each in England, Germany, Finland, Brazil and 
Japan. Among the large number of important papers may be men- 
tioned the descriptions of Coccidæ from both North and South America 
by Professors Cockerell and Tinsley, and Messrs. Ehrhorn, Parrott, 
King, Hempel (Brazil) and Marlatt. 
Papers on Classification :—“ The Entomophilous Wasps,” by W. H. 
Ashmead ; “Dragon-flies,’ by Jas. G. Needham ; “North American 
Myrmelionide,” by N. Banks; “ Coccidæ,” by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell; 
“ Bees,” by Chas. Robertson; “ Wasps,” by S. N. Dunning. 
Descriptions of new species :—‘‘ Lepidoptera,” by Prof. J. B. Smith, 
Dr. H. Skinner and Dr. H. G. Dyar; “ Orthoptera,” by Dr. Samuel 
H. Scudder and Prof. Jerome McNeill; “ Hymenoptera,” by Messrs. 
Carroll Fowler and W. H. Harrington; “ Diptera,” by Mr. D. W. Coquil- 
lett; “ Neuroptera,” by Mr. Rolla Currie, and “ Hemiptera,” by Messrs. 
A. L. Quaintance and Otto Heidemann. 
“A List of Manitoba Moths,” by Mr. A. W. Hanham ; “ The 
Coleoptera of Canada,” by Prof. H. F. Wickham; “Ontario Acridide,” 
