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red-admiral, painted-lady, and many other varieties are here in profusion. 

 It is a record occasion for collectors." 



The comment of the Irish Naturalist on the above is this, " Such 

 enlightenment on an expected addition to the Irish fauna will doubtless 

 be received by naturalists in this country with the docility due to the 

 universal knowledge possessed by all writers in our daily contemporary," 



The 47th Annual Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 

 1916, consists of 174 pages and numerous illustrations. It contains a 

 summary of the work of the Society and its three branches at Montreal, 

 Toronto and in Nova Scotia, with a series of Special Reports on Insects 

 of the Year, which have been locally injurious to agricultural or forest 

 produce. These are succeeded by a series of papers read at the 

 meetings during the year or at the Annual Congress held in 1916 at 

 Guelph. " The Naturalist in the City," by that veteran the Rev. T, W. 

 Fyles, D.C.L. " Dusting Fruit Trees and Grapes for the Control of 

 Diseases and Biting Insects," by L. Caesar. " The Use of Repellants 

 for Horn and Stable Flies on Cattle," by A. W. Baker. "The Relation 

 of Insects to Disease in Man and Animals," by Dr. L. 0. Howard; this 

 was illustrated with lantern slides and dealt with, (1) insects as simple 

 carriers of disease, (2) as direct inoculators of disease, (3) as essentially 

 hosts of pathogenic organisms. " The Wood of Desire," by F. J. A. 

 Morris, a charmingly written account of a visit in September to a 

 beautiful forest district near Peterborough (Ont.) in search of insects. 

 " Insects as Material for Studies in Heredity," by Prof. W. Lockhead, 

 is a brief summary of what has been attempted in recent years with 

 a short list of the literature of the subject. " A Historical Account of 

 the Forest Tent-caterpillar {Malacusoina sps.) and the Fall Web- worm 

 {Hyphantria sp.) in N. America," by A. B. Baird. Several papers on the 

 Apple Maggot, Locusts, Forest and Shade Tree Insects, Various 

 imported Greenhouse Pests, The Poplar and Willow Borer {Uryptorhynchus 

 lajjathi), etc., and their various suggested controls are followed by the 

 Year's Entomological Record of Literature and Captures of Note. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society. 



July 2Qth. — Announcement. — The Proceedings for 1916-17 were 

 announced as ready for issue. 



Variation in S. irrorella. — -Mr. Ashdown exhibited a series of 

 the pale and dark races of Setina irrorella from Mickleham Downs, and 

 living larvae, pupte, and imagines of Anisosticta 19-punctata from Surrey. 



The method of rearing D. marginalis. — Mr. H. Main, a pupation 

 chamber of Dytiscus marginalis with pupa in situ, and several chrysalids 

 of Vanessa io, most of which had gold markings. 



Exotic Hesperiid.^ exhibited. — Mr. Edwards, various exotic species 

 of Hesperiidae, and read a note on the distribution of the famil3\ 



Exhibit of New Forest Hymenoptera. — Mr. West (Greenwich), a 

 number of Vespidae, Ichneuynonidae, and Chrysididae, taken by him 

 recently in the New Forest. 



A new Aberration of A. cydippe, — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a specimen 

 of Argynnis cydippe {adippe) with silver points in several of the large 

 black spots on the under surface, a phase of aberration not previously 

 known to him. 



