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*i 972. Annual Report of the Entomological Society 

 of the Province of Ontario, for the year 1876. Printed by 

 order of the Legislative Assembly. Toronto : 1877. 8vo. 

 pg. 2, 58, fig. 1-16, 18, and 1 pL, contains the following, and 

 nos. 973 to 978. 



Title, a. Annual business reports and reports of the annual meetings of 

 the Society and of the London and Montreal Branches, p. 1-6. h. Annual 

 address of the President of the E. S. O. (by Wm. Saunders) (from Can. 

 Entom. , 1876, v. 8, p. 210-217) [collection exhibited by the Society at the 

 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, and notes on the other collections of 

 insects shown there; rules of nomenclature discussed at the meeting of the 

 A. A. A. S., at Buffalo], p. 6-10. c. Report of the Committee on Centen- 

 nial Exhibition (by W. Saunders, Chairman) [with appended notice from 

 The Daily Graphic — N. Y., Sept. 26, 1876 — of the collection exhibited by 

 tne Society], p. 10-12. d. Meetings of the Entom. Club of the A. A. A. S. 

 ( rom Can. Entom., 1876, v. 8, p. 176-185) [inch address of Dr. J. L. Le- 

 Conte, Pres. of the Club], p. 12-17. e. Insects introduced by the Centen- 

 nial Exhibition [see Rec. No. 845], p. 20-23. /. Index, p. 57-58. 



*i 973. H. Hagen. On genera, p. 17-20. 



Discusses the relations of Artemia and Branchipus, and those of Daphnia, 

 Cyclops and Canthocamptus; advocates enlarging the characters of species 

 and those of genera; list of characters not to be considered generic; generic 

 characters. 



*i 974. W: Saunders. On blistering beetles, p. 24-29, 

 %. 1, pl- 



Treats of Epicauta vit/ata, E. cinerea, E. alrala, Meloe angusticoUis' 

 Cysteodemua annatus, MyJahris cichorii, Macrobasis albida, M. atrivittata, M. 

 sefimentata, Cantharis veaicaloria, C. vulnerata, C. nultalli, Pyrnta mylabrina, 

 Tergrodera erosa, figuring all except Epicauta alrala ; life-history of Meloe, 

 mostly an abstract from Trans. Linn. Soc, v. 20; notes on Meloe about 

 Toronto. [Essentially the same as Can. Entom., 1876, v. 8, p. 221-228, 

 pl., and Can. Entom, 187 7, v. 9, p. 11-12.] 



*^ 975. C: J. S. Bethune. The destructive locust of the 



west. p. 29-34, fig. 2. 



Brief introductory remarks and a reprint of " The migrations of the 

 destructive locust of the west," by A. S. Packard, Jr., in Amer. Naturalist, 

 1877, V. 11, p. 20-29. Figures Caloptenus femuv-rubrum. 



*^ 976. W: Saundeks. On some of our common insects. 



p. 35-38, fig. 3-8. 



Treats of Actios luna^ Deilephila chamaenerii. D. lineata, Papilio asterias. 

 [Essentially the same as Can. Entom, 1877, v. 9, p. 32-33, fig. 1 ; p. 63-67, 

 fig. 2-5; with a brief sketch oi Papilio asterias added.] 



*i 977. W: Saunders. Notes of the year. p. 39-40, fig. 9. 



Treats of Heliophila unipuncta, Ponpelia grossularia, Pier is rapae. 

 1 Record made bv Mr. Geor2;e Dimmock. 



