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Society for the ensuing year are as follow •.^President, H. J. Turner, 

 F.E.S. Vice-presidents, E. Adkin, F.E.S., and A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S., F.Z.S. Treasurer, T. A. Hall, F.E.S. Librarian, A. W. Dods. 

 Curator, W. West (Greenwich). Editor of Proceedings, H. J. Turner, 

 F.E.S. Hun. Secretary, Stanley Edwards, F.L.S./ F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 Council, S. R. Ashby, F.E.S., W. J. Ashdown, K. G. Blair, B.Sc, 

 F.E.S., G. Brooks, F. W. Frohawk, F.E.S., M.B.O.U., D. R. Morford, 

 C. W. Sperring, A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., W. West, L.D.S. (Ashtead). 



In the Bull. Sac. Ent. France for October M. Mabille and M. Boullet 

 describe a considerable number of new species and new forms of known 

 species of Hesperiidae from various parts of the world. 



In the Naturalist for November is an mteresting account of a fight 

 between an earwig and some ants {Myrniica ruf/inodis) by H. V. Corbett, 

 which lasted some two hours and finally resulted in the former being 

 overpowered and dragged into the nest. The forceps, were used for the 

 defence but were " clumsy weapons, and useless, except when the actual 

 points closed on the ants," who often dodged them very cleverly. 



The Ann. Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario for 1915, 

 was late in coming to hand. It is a somewhat larger issue than in 

 previous years. It contains the usual reports from the officials of the 

 Society, from the conductors of the experimental sections, and from 

 the local branches of the Society. This year there seems to be a much 

 longer series of special studies of insects that have been economically 

 to the fore from their injurious attacks. Among them are Locust 

 Control Work in E. Canada, work carried on against the Gipsy and 

 Brown-tail Moths in Canada and the U. States, Control of the Cabbage- 

 maggot, Life-history of Chermes sp.. Various Notes on Bot-flies, the 

 Army-worm in Alberta, Aphid and Capsid attacks on Apple-trees, Leaf- 

 roller (Tortrices) attacks on various trees, and various Injurious Weevils 

 and their Controls. There are numerous illustrations and in addition 

 a Preliminary List of Parasitic Insects and their hosts which are known 

 to occur in Canada. 



We read that our old friend (enemy) Coleopliora laricella the larch 

 pest has appeared in New Jersey, evidently introduced from Europe in 

 nursery stock. (Ent. Neivs.) 



In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for November Dr. G. W. Nicholson announces 

 the capture of a Coleopteron, Lycoperdina succincta, new to Britain, 

 near Barton Mills, Suffolk. Fifteen specimens were taken in October 

 last from ripe Lycoperdon gtmniatum. It is differentiated from its near 

 ally L. bovistae by its colour, being less shiny and considerably narrower 

 and less contracted in the middle. The antennae are stouter and 

 shorter. Prof. Hudson Beare establishes the Coleopteron SjJiaeriestes 

 gabrieli as a British species, and differentiates it from S. foveolatus with 

 which species it has been confused hitherto. Mr. Kenneth J. Morton 

 gives an account of Chartley Moss, Staffordshire, and the Neuroptera 

 found there. He did not meet with the rare species Leucorrhinia dubia 

 which occurs there. 



The Waterhouse collection of Coleoptera has, we understanfl, been 

 acquired for the Museum of the Entomological Department of the 

 University of Edinburgh. 



In the E)it. News for November Prof. J. McDunnough has an 

 important nomenclatorial article " On the Types of Certain Noctuid 

 Genera occurring in North America," in which he points out that Sir 



