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Title: Annual report - Entomological Society of Ontario
Identifier: annualreportento1881ento (find matches)
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Entomological Society of Ontario; Ontario. Department of Agriculture
Subjects: Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects
Publisher: Toronto, The Society
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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nified. Natiiral length of egg and beetle Onion Fly, pupa and larva, all magnified. Onion- shown by lines. bulb showing pupa remaining in stored onion. We cannot but congratulate Miss Ormerod upon the skilful manner in which she- has accomplished her task, and we trust that her work will be fully appreciated by the farmers and gardeners of Great Britain, for whose special benefit it has been produced. The whole book is written in clear, simple language, free from all scientific terms and technicalities so far as they can be omitted, while the modes of prevention are such as- have been practically tested by competent persons, and cannot fail to be beneficial if intelligently followed. We hope to see many editions of the work called for, and to learn* that the aulilioress has been amply rewarded for her labour of love.—C. J. S. B. Reports of the U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture for 1878 and 1879. We have lately received copies of both of these valuable reports from the Depart- ment of Agriculture at Washington. There are in them—in addition to all the other useful papei*s on subjects relating to agriculture—in the reports of the Entomologist of the Department, much that is of great interest to entomologists. In the report for 1878 we have, from the pen of C. Y. Biley, contributions on the insects injurious to the cotton plant; the silk worm, with instructions for the production of silk ; with descriptions also of a number of insects injurious to fruits and field crops, occupying in all 50 pages, and illustrated by seven full-page plates. In 1879, papers by J. H. Comstock on the army worm, clover insects, insects injurious to the orange tree, and references to many other species which injure field crops, forest and fruit trees, covering 75 pages, and illustrated by six full-page plates. This volume also contains an extensive report on insects injurious- to the cotton plant; 84 pp., with 9 plates. North Americax Moths ; with a Preliminary Catalogue of Species of Hadena and Polia. By A. B. Grote : 8vo., 20 pp., from the Bulletin of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the U.' S., Vol. YL, No. 2. In addition to the catalogues and other useful matter, this paper contains descriptions of twenty-eight new species.

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