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irregularly cylindrical, tapering at both ends, and those on the branches 
are more or less spherical. A second article, by George Brodie and 
W. A. Brodie, records the occurence in great numbers of the common 
Bed-legged Locust, Caloptenus femur-rubrum, during the summer of 
1893 in the middle and eastern counties of Ontario. Many thousands 
of dollars worth of farm products were destroyed over the infested 
area. 
INSECT INJURIES IN NOVA SCOTIA. 
We learn from the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture of 
Nova Scotia for 1893 that damage by the Colorado Potato Beetle has 
grown less, but that considerable damage has been done to various 
crops by locusts, while perhaps the most serious insect depredations of 
the season have been accomplished by the Bud Moth ( Tmetocera ocel- 
lana), although the species is not identified. In certain localities one- 
third of the apple crop was destroyed by this species, the crop of 
Nonpareils being almost entirely lost. 
INSECTS OF ALDABRA, ASSUMPTION, AND GLORIOSO ISLANDS, INDIAN 
OCEAN. 
In a short paper published as No. 973 of the Proceedings of the 
U. S. National Museum, Dr. W. L. Abbott gives a brief report on the 
natural history of these islands, in which is included a list of the in- 
sects. The species, as a general thing, are those of south and east 
Africa. The Museum has received other collections also made by Dr. 
Abbott, from the Seychelles Islands and from east Africa, the largest 
amount of material having been taken in the interesting Kilimanjaro 
region. This material is being slowly worked up by specialists, and 
the reports when completed will form an important contribution to the 
geographical distribution of insects. 
INSECT PESTS OF QUEENSLAND. 
The Department of Agriculture at Brisbane has published as Bulletin 
25 a report of the agricultural conferences held at Beenleigh, Bundaberg ? 
Bockhampton, and Mackay. Among the interesting discussions which 
were held at these conferences, and which are reported with great 
fulness in this bulletin, we notice an important paper upon insect pests 
by Mr. B. E. Turner, which was read at the Mackay conference. Mr. 
Turner treats at considerable length the insect enemies of the sugar- 
cane in Queensland, and considers that the decrease* of the native 
insectivorous birds, owing to their indiscriminate destruction by the 
Kanakas employed on the plantations, has a great deal to do with the 
increase of sugar-cane insects, particularly white grubs, which have of 
late been so abundant. These people, it seems, spend their Sundays 
destroying the birds. The borer moth, Mr. Turner thinks, may be 
identical with Diatrcea sacchari but is certainly distinct from Proceras 
