OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA FOR JULY, 19 23. 
The rose chafer is present in great numbers and represents as severe an 
outbreak as has ever occurred in southwestern Ontario. The main centers of 
infestation are Middlesex, Elgin, Norfolk, Welland, Peel, and York Counties, but 
it occurs wherever the soil is light and aandy. The fruit of cherries, peaches, 
apples, pears, plums, and ornamental plants hare been freely fed upon by adults. 
The apple seed chalcid has been reared from apple seed at Kelowna in the 
Okanagan Valley, B.C. 
The clover-seed chalcid has been found at Lethbridge, Alberta, in the 
blossoms of alfalfa. 
The spring cankerworm has been present in outbreak form in Welland, Nor- 
folk, Northumberland, and Durham Counties of Ontario during the season. 
The chinch bug has been found in destructive numbers in a small area 50 
miles southwest of Rosetown, Saskatchewan. This outbreak is in an isolated 
locality 135 miles north of the international boundary and north of the South 
Saskatchewan River and is of special interest as one of the first records of 
this species in the Prairie Provinces in destructive abundance. Edges of several 
fields of early-planted spring wheat adjoining prairie land have been invaded. 
Grasshoppers have Qeen particularly numerous in many parts of western 
Canada. The most severe outbreaks are occurring in southern Saskatchewan, Al- 
berta, and British Columbia. Melanoplus at Ian is and M. bivittatus are the species 
at fault in each of the localities. A general absence of Camnula pellucida is 
everywhere noted. A notable outbreak of M. packardii is associated with the 
lesser migratory grasshopper in the southern Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. 
Here these two species have defoliated young apple trees and sirall bull pines, and 
intercrops of vetch and alfalfa have been eaten to the ground. 
The forest tent-caterpillar has been very conspicuous in New Brunswick. 
Caterpillars have been sufficiently numerous to hinder railway trains at several 
points . 
Moths of Eulvps hastata Linn, were very numerous at a number of points in 
southern Quebec and northern Ontario during early July. 
The stalk borer has been reported and submitted for identification on many 
occasions during the past month at points in the neighborhood of Ottawa, Ontario. 
Notable injury has been caused by the iris borer, Macronoctua onusta Grt., 
at Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. 
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