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she can not attend committee meetings without risk. Moreover, some 
misapprehension has recently arisen as to the amount of claim which 
the council might exercise in directing her services, and as to the claim 
which the council might have on information in her hands. In spite of 
the fact that this trouble seems to have blown over, Miss Ormerod feels 
that she can work with more comfort if free of all claims whatever. 
She proposes to carry on her extremely valuable work as a private 
individual. We are very glad to learn that the publication of her 
reports will not be interrupted. For 14 years she has worked untiringly 
and unselfishly, and has occupied almost alone the field of economic 
entomology in England. Any change in her plans which would inter- 
rupt her entomological work would be a distinct loss to agriculture. 
THE BUMBLE BEE IN NEW ZEALAND. 
The introduction of the Bumble Bee into New Zealand a few years ago 
to secure the fertilization of the red clover, and the remarkable success 
of this venture, are matters of record. Ina recent paper in the New 
Zealand Journal of Science, noticed in The Entomologist’s Monthly Maga- 
zine for May, 1891, Mr. George M. Thomson, F. L. 8., presents an inter- 
esting article on the introduced bBombi in New Zealand, giving also a 
list of the plants and flowers which are visited by these bees. He 
makes the interesting statement that, with a few exceptions, he has 
never heard of these bees visiting the flowers of indigenous plants, but 
states that they have become so extraordinarily abundant that the 
question has even arisen in his mind as to whether they would not 
become as serious a pest to the apiarist as the rabbits have proved to 
the farmer and cultivator, on account of their absorbing so much of the 
nectar of the flowers. He also points out the remarkable fact in con- 
nection with the life of the Bumblebee in New Zealand, that in many 
parts of the colony it does not seem to hibernate at all, but is to be 
seen daily on flowers all the year round. 
SOME OF OUR INSECTS IN JAMAICA. 
Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, curator of the Institute of Jamaica, has sent 
us recently several insects which he finds in Jamaica and which are at 
the same time well known in this country. He finds among scale insects 
the common Round Scale (Lecaniwm hemisphericum), the Purple Scale 
(Mytilaspis citricola), and the Florida Red Scale (Aspidiotus ficus). He 
also sends the moth of the common Melon Worm (Hudioptis hyalinata) 
and the abundant Anomis erosa of Florida, and, what is mdre interesting, 
informs us that he has captured the Army Worm moth (Leucania uni- 
puncta, of the form asticta). This is the first record of this last species 
from the West Indies, although from its occurrence in South America 
and Florida this locality was quite to be expected. He also sends a 
Specimen of what seems to be Synchlora rubivoraria. This is the com- 
mon Raspberry Geometer of this country. 
