Vol. XXviii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 469 



In recent years the News has given, usually in its February 

 number, a classified list of all the papers of an entomological 

 bearing presented at the preceding Convocation week meet- 

 ings. Owing to our reduced size in 1918, as announced in our 

 November issue, page 424, this list will be omitted next year, 

 but we hope to give the usual brief summary and statistics of 

 papers. 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Entomology in British Columbia. 



I am having sent to you a copy each of the Annual Report of the 

 British Columbia Provincial Museum of Natural History for 1915 and 

 1916. The latter has only just come off the press. These reports 

 contain illustrations of some of our rare and uncommon British Col- 

 umbian insects and I thought that they may be of interest to you, 

 especially as some of the figures are types and paratypes which are 

 here illustrated for the first time. For the past two years I have been 

 looking after the entomological branch of the Provincial Museum in 

 my spare time. This branch had been rather neglected previously, 

 but is now assuming a more complete aspect. I have persuaded the 

 Director to have at least two plates each year devoted to the illustrat- 

 ing of rare and uncommon insects occurring in the Province, and as 

 the general aspect of the report has been altered, I think that it may 

 prove of some value to entomologists in general. — E. H. Blackmore, 

 President, British Columbia Entomological Society, Victoria, B. C. 



[The Report for 1915 notes the insect collections made by E. M. 

 Anderson at Atlin in 1914 and at Sahtlam, Vancouver I., in 1915; by 

 J. A. Munro at Okanagan Landing and C. Garrett at Cranbrook. Of 

 the well-printed half-tone plates, one is devoted to types and paratypes 

 of Geometridae described elsewhere by L. W. Swett, two to rarer 

 butterflies (chiefly) and one to three new species of B. C. Diptera, 

 described elsewhere by C. H. T. Townsend. The Report for 1916 

 indicates that Mr. Anderson made insect collections in the vicinity of 

 Lilloett while Mr. Munro continued his work at Okanagan Landing; 

 it contains also records of Noctuids from the vicinity of Victoria and 

 of Geometridae from various B. C. localities by Mr. Blackmore. To 

 each of these famihes a half-tone plate is devoted. We heartily sec- 

 ond the hope expressed by Mr. Blackmore in another place in his let- 

 ter that the B. C. Entomological Society may, in spite of its difficulties, 

 soon issue numbers 8 and 10 of its Bulletin. — Ed.] 



