APPENDIX REPORT ON ZOOLOGY. 
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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY. 
The Committee beg to submit the following notes : During the 
past season, Mr. Rowe has devoted much time to the study of fishes 
and fish culture, and has devised a hatching jar which is considered 
to possess advantages superior to those exhibited in any similar 
apparatus known to the committee. Mr. McIntosh has prepared a list 
of Bombycine and Hawk Moths which appears in this Bulletin, and Mr. 
Leavitt has made collections of fresh water shells and carried on some 
preliminary studies of our earthworms. Mr. G. W. Bailey has con- 
tinued his investigation of our land shells and hopes to have his list 
ready for publication next year. The general subject has been 
brought before the Society in a number of papers. 
Insects. 
Last summer, owing no doubt to the exceptionally fine weather,, 
injurious insects were unusually numerous. Locusts were very abun- 
dant and did quite an amount of damage. 
Squash and cucumbers were almost entirely destroyed in some 
localities by the striped cucumber beetle (Diabrotica vittata, Fab). 
Peas were very much injured by “worms” larvae of weevils and 
a small moth, probably the Pea Moth (Semasia nigricana Steph.) 
After the immense swarms of the Cranberry Moth (Caterva cat- 
enaria) which appeared in the autumn of 1899, it would seem natural 
to expect large numbers during the following season. But during the 
past summer scarcely a specimen could be found either in a larval or 
adult form. 
One butterfly has been added to the New Brunswick list during 
the past summer ( Amblyscirtes vialis) and (Erynnis Manitoba), 
hitherto only reported from Jacquet River, was taken in some numbers, 
in the Nerepis Valley. 
WILLIAM McINTOSH, 
