792 General Notes. [July, 
brilliant than the colored lamps.—Z. P. Gratacap, New York. 
Enromotocicat Nores.—The British “ Council of Education” 
has established a committee of economic entomology, and among 
other able members appointed are Professor Huxley, Professor 
Westwood, Professor Wrightson (president of Downton College 
of Agriculture), Professor Dyer (sub-director Kew Gardens), and 
Miss Ormerod. Dr. R. P. Hoy has published a list of the 
cold-blooded vertebrates and Lepidoptera of Wisconsin. The 
Micros are not included in the latter, but the Macros are very 
well represented, and forty-seven species of Catocala are recorded 
as taken within two miles of Racine. Professor C. H. Fern- 
ald informs us that he has secured the collection of Pterophoride 
of Mr. Charles Fish, who has been obliged to abandon their 
study, and that he has also secured all of Fitch’s material in the 
same family. We always experience a profound pleasure when a 
careful, conscientious and competent student takes hold of any 
given family with a view of eventually monographing or synopsiz- 
i e report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 
for the year 1882, is just at hand. The society is in a flourishing 
in- 
dex to all the previous reports. There is a want of system ee 
matter of these reports resulting in much repetition or n 
while the use of the same cuts year after year becomes somewhat 
tedious. Mr. George D. Hulst has an article on some Sesiidæ 
in the May number of the Bull, Brooklyn Ent. Soc. (Vol. vi, Pe 
8-10), giving accounts of Bembecia marginata, Sesia acer i * 
Mellitia cucurbite,—three species of economic interest. He pa 
into a singular error in quoting from our Sixth Mo. Ent. Rep. t ‘ 
account of the oviposition of Oberea perspicillata, and mistaking 
it for that of the Bembecia, which, as he shows, oviposits On mA 
leaf. He found that the eggs fell with the leaves to the groun f 
and did not hatch before winter. Experience in the latitude o 
St. Louis indicates on the contrary that they do hatch in the A 
as stated in our report above cited, though doubt : 
variation in this respect. In a synopsis of the genus ree 
(tbid., pp. 5-7) Mr. J. B. Smith recognizes but four se the 
sippus, ursula, weidemeyerii, and lorquini, sinking some ten & a 
late finely-split species of Edwards (W. H.) and Strecker, © vill 
rieties. In this we think he has done wisely, though many et 
question whether arthemis Drury, which is made 4 ve), 
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