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she can not attend (•(•iiiniittiM' intH'tiii^s without lisk. Moreover, some 

 iuii>ia|)i)relieusion lias recently arisen as to the aniount of claim which 

 the council might exercise in directing" her services, and as to the claim 

 which the council might have on inlormation in her hands. In spite of 

 the fact that this trouble seems to have blown over, Miss Ormerod feels 

 that she ean work with more comfort if free of all claims whatever. 

 She proposes to carry on her extremely valuable work as a private 

 individual. We are very glad to learn that the pul)lieatiou of her 

 reports will not be interrupted. For 14 years she has worked untiringly 

 and unselfishly, and has occupied almost alone the field of economic 

 entomology in England. Any change in liei- plans which would inter- 

 rupt her entomological work would be a distinct loss to agriculture. 



THE BUMBLE BEE IN NEW ZEALAND. 



The introduction of the Bumble Bee into New Zealand a few years ago 

 to secure the fertilization of the red clover, and the remarkable success 

 of this venture, are matters of record. In a recent paper in the N'ew 

 Zealand Journal of Science, noticed in The EniomoloiiisfH Monthly Maga- 

 zine for May, 1891, Mr. George M. Thomson, F. l. s,, presents an inter- 

 esting article on the introduced Bombi in !New Zealand, giving also a 

 list of the plants and flowers which are visited by these bees. He 

 makes the interesting statement that, with a few exceptions, he has 

 never heard of these bees visiting the flowers of indigenous plants, but 

 states that they have become so extraordinarily abundant that the 

 question has even arisen in his mind as to whether they would not 

 become as serious a pest to the apiarist as the rabbits have proved to 

 the farmer and cultivator, on account of their absorbing so much of the 

 nectar of the flowers. He also i^oints out the remarkable fact in con- 

 nection with the life of the Bumblebee in New Zealand, that in many 

 parts of the colony it does not seem to hibernate at all, but is to be 

 seen daily on flowers all the year round. 



SOME OF OUK INSECTS IN .JAMAICA. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, curator of the Institute of Jamaica, has sent 

 us recently several insects which he finds in Jamaica and which are at 

 the same time well known in this country. He finds among scale insects 

 the common Round Scale [Lecanium heniisphxericiitn), the Purple Scale 

 {Mytilaspis citricola), and the Florida Red Scale { A-sj) idiot us Jicus). He 

 also sends the moth of the common Melon Worm {Eudiopti.s hyalinata) 

 and the abundant Anomis erosa of Florida, and, what is more interesting, 

 informs us that he has captured the Army Worm moth {Leucania uni- 

 puncta, of the form anticta). This is the first record of this last species 

 from the West Indies, although from its occurrence in South America 

 and Florida this locality was (piite to be expected. He also sends a 

 specimen of what seems to be Synchlora ruhivoraria. This is the com- 

 mon Raspberry Geometer of this country. 



