12 B. C. Entomological Society 



The author of Melanoplus borealis monticola is Scudder and not 

 Fieber, as I stated, and should read: Shudder. 8. H. Proe. Amer. Phil. 

 Soe. XXXVI.. p. '2-i (1S1I7). The spt'llini:- is incMirreet in Melanoplus was- 

 hingtonianus, and should read: Melanoplus washingtonius (l>runcri. 



Tettigoniidae 



In the previous list Cyphoderris monstrosus d'hlei') should be 

 Cyphoderris monstrosa (Ihlcri. Prcie. Elnt. Sm-. Pliilad., II.. p. .i.il 

 (1864). 



The use of varietal names in so variable an order as the Orthoptera 

 is not generally considered advisable and Anabrus simplex var. maculo- 

 sus (Caudell) is best recorded as Anabrus simplex (Ilaldeman). ytans- 

 bury, Exped. Great Salt Lake of Utah, p. 372 (1S52). 



Further study in the British Columbia material of Conocephalus 

 fasciatus (De Geer) by Messrs. Rehn and Hebard has shown that Cono- 

 cephalus fasciatus fasciatus (De Geer) and intermediates between this 

 ^eoi^iaphie race and Conocephalus fasciatus vicinus (Morse) occur, but 

 probably true vicinus will not be found in British Golumbia. 



"VESPA" 

 The First Paper Maker 



BY W. B. Anderson. 



We, of this age of inventions, of useful commodities of all kinds, of 

 thousands of things little and big which have been evolved for the con- 

 venience and the comfort of us pampered humans, seldom if ever pause 

 to think of the long trails made by patient toilers, which lead eventually 

 to the successes as we know them. Do we ever consider, when looking at 

 and admiring a beautifully finished sword, that the first sword was made 

 of a thin slice of intensely hard stone, cut from the larger block by means 

 of a sandstone slip, sand, water, and days, nay weeks, of hard labour? Do 

 we ever consider that the surgeon's keen scalpels had their beginning in 

 a bit of sharp shell, or agate chip? Very few, among a million people, 

 give thought to the evolution of the commercial article in every day use. 



We read a book, admire the print, the binding, the texture of the 

 paper. We sit down to wi-ite on various themes, and at times throw 

 down pen or pencil with a "Pshaw, why don't they make better paper to 

 write on?" Forgetting for the time, that the first documents were scrib- 

 ed on stone ; then on bark, or papyrus, until at last some human more 

 clever than the rest, or one who desired less manual labour in indicting 

 his love letters or his declarations of war, hit upon a scheme whereby 

 some vegetable substance was pulped, mixed with a glutinous vehicle, 

 then spread thin and dried ; with the result that a material was finally 



