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Webster, F. M. 
Importance of observations on apparently unimportant insects. (Can, 
Ent., vol. 47, pp. 69-73, March, 1915. (Relates a series of instances which 
casual observations of little-known species proved highly useful when the 
insects in question were found to attack cultivated plants). 
Weiss, Harry B. 
The Symmetry of Insects. Can. Ent., vol. 47, pp. 88-89, March, 1915. 
(Considers that the aesthetic appreciation of insects is largely due to their 
bilateral symmetry, as well as to other factors). 
Weiss, Harry B. 
Some curious old beliefs about Insects. Can. Ent., vol. 47, pp. 277-279, 
September, 1915. 
Weiss, Harry B. 
The establishment of foreign insects in spite of inspection. Can. Ent. 
vol. 47, pp. 313-315, October, 1915. 
Weiss, Harry B. 
Some old classifications of Insects. Can. Ent., vol. 47, pp. 369-376, 
November, 1915. (Briefly describes the systems proposed by Aristotle 
(B.C.384) and other ancient naturalists down to the end of the eighteenth 
century). ‘ 
Wheeler, W. M. 
A new Bog-inhabiting variety of Formica fusca, Linn. Psyche, vol. 22, 
pp. 203-206, December, 1915. (The new variety, named algida, is recorded 
from Kenora, Ont.; Saguenay River, Anticosti and Mingan Islands, Que.; 
Digby, N.S.; Newfoundland and Labrador. A list is also given of other 
species of ants found in cold bogs in the northern States and British America). 
Wilkerson, G. E. 
Insect pests in greenhouses. Proc. British Columbia Ent. Soc., No. 7, 
n.s., pp. 25-29, July, 1915. 
Wilson, H. F. 
A synopsis of the Aphid tribe Pterocommini. Annals Ent. Soc. America, 
vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 347-358, December, 1915. (Gives a key to the species, 
' figures of nectaries and antennae, and descriptions of various forms. 
Pterocomma smithiae, Monnell, Aphis salicis, Harris, is recorded from 
Canada). 
Wilson, Tom. 
The outbreak of Locusts of 1914. Proc. British Columbia Ent. Soc., No. 
7, n.s., pp. 41-43, July, 1915. (An account of wide-spread injury, chiefly 
by Melanoplus affinis and femur-rubrum. Large numbers of Blister-beetles, 
Cantharis cyanipennis, were found feeding upon the egg masses). 
Winn, A. F. 
Butterflies in nature and in books. 7th Annual Report, Quebec Soc. Prot. 
Plants, etc., pp. 65-71, 1914-1915. 
