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Report of the Official Entomologist of the Dominion of Canada—_Mr. James 
Fletcher sends us the author’s edition of his report as Entomologist 
and Botanist to the Central Experiment Farms at Ottawa, and in the 
entomological portion he gives excellent articles upon Cut Worms, the 
Red-legged Locust, granary insects, and a number of less important 
species which he treats under the respective heads of species inju- 
rious to root crops, fodder crops, vegetables, fruits, forest trees, and live- 
stock. The report contains a number of interesting notes, one of the 
most important of which refers to the Black Vine-weevil (Otiorhyn- 
chus sulcatus), a beetle common to Europe and North America, and 
which, in Europe, does considerable damage to the vine. Mr. Fletcher 
has received specimens from Victoria, B. C., which were feeding on 
the roots of Cyclamens in greenhouses. The species now occurs in 
British Columbia and Nova Scotia, as well as the New England 
States. Its occurrence in the East is supposed to be from accidental 
introduction, and it may equally as well have been introduced at 
Victoria, although Mr. Schwarz is inclined to think that it is native 
to North America and a member of the circumpolar fauna. The Horn 
Fly has increased enormously and spread rapidly throughout the 
provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and in some districts the milk sup- 
ply was reduced one-half. Mr. Fletcher finds that when the flies are 
at their worst it is necessary to spray cattle with ordinary kerosene 
emulsion every two days. Tanner’s oil, however, containing some car- 
bolized oil, or oil of tar, is more lasting in its effects, but takes longer 
to apply and requires much greater labor. 
Miss Ormerod's S venteenth Report.—The somewhat anomalous annual 
report published by Miss Ormerod upon the injurious insects and 
common farm pests of England, for the year 1893, has just reached 
us. We eall this report anomalous for the reason that, as we have 
previously mentioned in these pages, Miss Ormerod’s work is gra- 
tuitous and her report is published at her own expense. She has 
devoted her labors to the good of the agricultural classes of England 
in the most philanthropic and praiseworthy manner. She stands 
almost alone in economic entomological work in England. Her 
report for 1893 fully sustains the generally excellent character of the 
series, and while few of the insects treated occur on this side, several of 
them have their vicarious forms with us, and the report is therefore, of 
much interest to American workers. One of the most interesting articles 
in the report is that upon wasps, in which Miss Ormerod treats at length 
of the extraordinary abundance of species of the genus Vespa, notonlyin 
England but in other parts of Europe during the season of 1893. This 
abundance was productive of much more harm than good, for while the 
species kill other insects, they inflict, when excessively abundant, a 
great amount of injury in the way of loss to fruit-growers and much 
