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oame of exquidta. — (Rev.) G. H. Raynor, M.A., Hazeleigh Rectory, 

 Maiden. 4.th February, 1919. 



CURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



Many annual publications have 'been late in appearance owing to 

 the abnormal conditions brought about by the war. Still that they 

 have been able to continue to appear is a matter for congratulation. 

 The forty-eighth Annual Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario 

 (1917) has recently come to hand. After the usual Society Reports, 

 of Council, Librarian, and Curator, the Annual Meeting received reports 

 of thg Branches at Montreal, Toronto, British Columbia, and Nova 

 Scotia, and a series of special reports on the injurious insects of the 

 year from the various divisions of the Province of Ontario. These are 

 all printed with the addition of the numerous papers read at the 

 sessions, including " Notes on the Imported Onion Maggot {Hylemyia 

 antiqua) and its Control," by A. Gibson ; " Some Important Insects of 

 the Year," byL. Caesar (the blackberry leaf-miner = Metallus hethanei ; 

 the zebra caterpillars =CVaiHica ^yicta ; the codling moth — C a rpocai^sa 

 {Cydia) pomonella ; the white-marked tussock-moth = /:feweroc«»?/:>a 

 (Orgyia) leucostigma ; the wheat midge = Contorima tritici ; the eight- 

 spotted forester = J %jm octomaculata ; etc.) ; "The Apple and Thorn 

 Skeletonizer {Hemeropldla pariana),'" by E. P. Felt ; " Some Notodon- 

 tian Larvffi," by the Rev. Dr. J. A. Corcoran ; "The Problem of Mosquito 

 Control," by Thos. J. Headlee (Registration of Areas, Acquirement of 

 Funds, Means of Elimination, Execution of Plans, Valuation of the 

 Results of the various Controls, Conclusion and Results so far) ; " The 

 Black Cherry-aphis," by W. A. Ross (giving the results of a large 

 number of breeding experiments) ; " Trans-Canadian Spiders," by J. 

 H. Emerton ; " A Further Report on the Value of Dusting versus 

 Spraying to control Fruit Tree Insects and Fungus Diseases," by L. 

 Caesar (showing the much greater advantage from the latter method 

 of control) : " A few Notes on the Ecology of Insects," by W. Lock- 

 head (Inter-relations between insects and plants, Insectivorous plants, 

 Bacteria and fungi. Insects as carriers of plant diseases, Insects and 

 birds, Insects behaviour towards stimuli, such as light, heat, gravity, 

 moisture, contact, etc.) : " Notes on an Unusual Garden Pest in Nova 

 Scotia, Gortyna micacea," by W. H. Brittain ; and various records of 

 captures make up a very useful and interesting annual of some 130 

 pages ; most of the contributions are illustrated. 



The Transactions of the London Natural History Society for 1917 

 was published late in the year. It contains the usual summary of the 

 meetings with many interesting entomological items. Then follow the 

 various reports of the sectional activities, which apparently have been 

 successfully continuing. Only two of the more lengthy papers have 

 been included, (1) " A Spring and Summer at Oxshott," an extremely 

 useful and interesting paper, by Russell E. James, contaming a full 

 account of the Lepidopterous Fauna of a well-known and delightful 

 Surrey rendezvous. (2) " The Report of the Birds of Epping Forest for 

 the year 1917," for the Ornithological Committee, by A. Brown, 

 Secretary. 



