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Mr. William T. Davis. Mr. Beuteiimliller is the editor, and is assisted 

 by a publication committee, consisting of Messrs. Ottomar Dietz, Charles 

 Palm, and Berthold Neumoegeu. The most important article in the 

 number is Dr. Packard's ''Attempt at a New Classification of the Bom- 

 bycine Moths," which he divides into fourteen families, the most revo- 

 lutionary step in the proposed classification being the transfer of the 

 old family Zygaenida; as a whole to the Bombycine series. Mrs. 

 Treat's " Some Injurious Insects of Orchard and Garden " is the only 

 article of immediate economic importance, and consists of a series of 

 local observations on the insect pests of the vicinity of Yiuelaud. N. J. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The twenty-third annual report of this enterprising society has just 

 reached us. It covers the year 1892, and . is, as usual, published by 

 order of the legislative assembly. It contains a number of most inter- 

 esting articles, some of which have already been published in the 

 Canadian Entomologist, while others are original here. Mr. James 

 Fletcher's article upon the Horn Fly we have already noticed in its 

 form as a bulletin of the Canadian Experiment Stations. The same 

 aiithor j)ublishes an account of the clothes moths found in Canada, 

 drawing largely from our article upon the same subject in a previous 

 number of Insect Life, but at the same time adding a number of inter- 

 esting observations of his own. Perhaps the most striking article in 

 the number is Mr. Scudder's " Songs of our Grasshoppers and Crickets," 

 in which he passes in review what is known of our American species in 

 this particular, beginning with the crickets and treating the species in 

 systematic order. The songs are reduced to a musical notation, which 

 is done simply for the purpose of illustrating intervals, since the pitch 

 does not vary and, in fact, does not seem to have been determined. Mr. 

 Scudder adopts arbitrarily the system of representing a second by a 

 bar, a quarter-second by a quarter-note, a thirty-second of a second by 

 a thirty-second note, etc. Musicians will thank him for the introduc- 

 tion of a new form of rest which we may describe as an obliquely trun- 

 cate parallelogram and which indicates silence throughout the remainder 

 of the measure. The subject is an interesting one and has been studied 

 by Mr. Scudder for many years, his early contributions having been 

 published in the American Naturalist a number of years ago. The 

 annual address of the president. Rev. Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, covers some 

 seven pages, and consists of an interesting review of the entomological 

 events of the season. 



A new patented insecticide. 



Among the many insecticides which are patented during the year is 

 occasionally one which attracts considerable attention. The so-called 

 "Brown's Insect Exterminator" as noticed in the California Fruit 



