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Mr. William T. Dayis. Mr. Beuteumiiller is the editor, and is assisted 

 by a publication committee, consisting- of Messrs. Ottomar Dietz, Oliarles 

 Palm, and Berthold Neumoegen. Tbe most imi)ortant article in the 

 number is Dr. Packard's --Attempt at a Xew Classification of tlieBom- 

 bycine Moths," ^hich he divides into fourteen families, the most revo- 

 lutionary step in the proposed classification being the transfer of the 

 old family Zygaenid^e as a whole to the Bombycine series. Mrs. 

 Treat's '- Some Injurious Insects of Orchard and Garden " is the only 

 article of immediate economic importance, and consists of a series of 

 local observations on the insect pests of the vicinity of Yiueland, X. J. 



EXT03I0L0GMCAL SOCIETY OF OXTAEIO. 



The twenty- third annual report of this enterprising society has just 

 reached us. It covers the year 1892, and is, as usual, published by 

 order of the legislative assembly. It contains a number of most inter- 

 esting articles, some of which have already been x^ublished in the 

 Canadian Entomologist^ while others are original here. Mr. James 

 Fletcher's article upon the Horn Fly we have akeady noticed in its 

 form as a bulletin of the Canadian Experiment Stations. The same 

 author publishes an account of the clothes moths found in Canada, 

 drawing largely from our article upon the same subject in a previous 

 number of I^'SECT Life, but at the same time adding a number of inter- 

 esting observations of his own. Perhaps the most striking article in 

 the number is Mr. Scudder's " Songs of our Grasshoppers and Crickets," 

 in which he passes in review what is known of our American species in 

 this particular, beginniug with the crickets and treating the species in 

 systematic order. The songs are reduced to a musical notation, which 

 is done simply for thex)urpose of illustrating intervals, since the pitch 

 does not vary and, in fact, does not seem to have been determined. Mr. 

 Scudder adopts arbitrarily the system of representing a second by a 

 bar, a quarter-second by a quarter-note, a thirty-second of a second by 

 a thirty-second note. etc. Musicians will thank him for the introduc- 

 tion of a new form of rest which we may describe as an obliquely trun- 

 cate parallelogram and which indicates silence throughout the remainder 

 of the measure. The subject is an interesting one and has been studied 

 by 3Ir. Scudder for many years, his early contributions having been 

 published in the American Xaturalist a number of years ago. The 

 annual address of the president, Rev. Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, covers some 

 seven pages, and consists of an interesting review of the entomological 

 events of the season. 



A KEW PATENTED I^^SECTICIDE. 



Among the many insecticides which are patented during the year is 

 occasionally one which attracts considerable attention. The so-called 

 ^'Brown's Insect Exterminator" as noticed in the California Fruit 



