The forty-third annual meeting of the Society was held in its new quarters at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, on Wednesday and Thursday, October 10th and 11th. The chair was taken by the VicePresident, Dr. James Fletche, Entomologist and Botanist of the Dominion Experimental Farms. Among those present were Mr. John D. Evans, Trenton, the retiring President; Mr. Henry H. Lyman, Montreal; Mr. Arthur Gibson, Central Experimental Fram, Ottawa; Mr. C. H. Yound Hurdman's Bridge; Dr. Brodie, and Messers. C. W. Nash, J. B. Williams and Paul Hahn, Toronto; Mr. G. E. Fisher, Burlington; Mr. J. Fred. Smith, San José Scale Inspector for Ontario; President Creelman, Professors Hutt, McCready and Bethune, Messer. Jarvis. Eastham, Howitt, Zavitz and Pearl, of the Ontario Agricultural College, and a large number of students from both the College and the Macdonald Institute.

A meeting of the committee to organize a national entomological society, for which provision was made at the Philadelphia meeting of the Entomological Club of the A.A.A.S., was held June 28, 1906, in the Entomological Labortory of Cornell University. The New York Entomological Society was represnted by Mr. Carl Schæffer, the Chicago Entomological Society by Dr. James G. Needham, the Jugatæ (the Ithaca Society) by Professor J. H. Comstock, the Newark Entomological Society by Mr. J.A. Grossbeck, the Entomological Society of Ontario by Rev. Professor C. J. S. Bethune, and the American Entomological Society by Professor C.J.S. Bethune, and the American Entomological Society by Mr. J. Chester Bradley. At an adjourned meeting the Washington Entomological Society was represented by Mr. E.S.G. Titus.

Article I. Name.

Section 1. This organization shall be known as The Entomological Society of America.

The first regular meeting of the autumn and winter season was held in the Biological lecture room of the Ontario Agricultural College on Wednesday evening, October 17th. Mr. T. D. Jarvis, Vice-President, occupied the chair. The proceedings began with notes and observations made by members during the past summer.

The Association of Offical Entomologists of the Cotton Belt will meet at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Nov. 13 and 14, 1906.

The Association of Farmers' Institute Workers will meet at Baton Rouge, Nov. 12 and 13; the Association of Offical Horticultural Inspectors, Nov. 14, 15 and 16, and the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, Nov. 14, 15 and 16.

Retinia Austriana, n. sp.—The Austrian Pine (Pinus laricio Austriaca) in the vicinity of Toronto is badly infested by the larveæ of a moth which is apparently an undescribed species of the genus Retinia. It resembles in certain particlars the form Retinia Comstockiana. This species was described in the Canadian Entomologist of Aug., 1879, by Prof. C. H. Fernald State College, Orono, Me. The specimens, however, were obtained at Ithaca, N.Y. Where they were found boring in the small branches of Pinus rigida.

I am indebted to Dr. F. Creighton Wellman for specimens of two little-known species of Xylocopiæ, collected by himself in Angola. Although they are not new species, they suggest a few observations.

An insect which, fortunately, has only been reported on a few occasions as doing damage in Canada, is the Bean Weevil, Bruchus obtectus, Say. Authetic instances of injury by this insect haven been received from one locality in Ontario, and from two in Quebec. The injury in all cases was to seed beans.

From the Island of Mindanao, P.I., comes a very pretty mosquito.

Toxorhynchites argenteotarsis, n. sp.—♀. Head densely covered with very dark brown flat scales, with bronze-blue iridescence, a light blue-white band around the eyes, and a few brown bristles; antennæ dark brown, the basal joint densely covered with flat white scales; palpi with very dary brown, almost black, scales, bronze-blue iridescence, the penulimate and antipenultimate joints with narrow violet apical bands; proboscis very dark, practically black, with bright bronze-blue irirdescence; eyes black, clypeus black.

Since the final impression of my “List of the genera of the Pagiopodous Hemiptera Heteroptera,” etc. (a), I have received from my friend, Dr.O.M. Reuter, a very valuable summary of his most recent thoughts on the Classificatio of the Miridæ (b).

In company with a party of botanists and others, the wirter spent the summer of 1905 in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, much of the time in scientifically unexplored parts of that beautiful range. The Selkirks occupy the major part of teh Kootenay district of south-eastern British Columbia. It will be seen by reference to a map that they are bounded on practically all sides by the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers and the long and narrow Kootenay Lake.