For reasons which will be given in a forthcoming taxonomic paper, the spruce budworm, Archips fumiferana (Clem.), is here transferred to the genus Choristoneura Lederer, 1859, Wien Ent. Monatschr., 3:242. Genotype: Tortrix rusticana Treitschke, designated by Fernald, 1908, The genera of the Tortricidae and their types, p. 53. The transfer is made at present in order that this species may be properly referred to in a following paper dealing with its external anatomy.

A male of Diachlorus ferrugatus (Fabr.) was recently captured at London, Ontario, by Mr. F. J. Hudson, an inspector for the Plant Protection Division, Science Service, of the Dominion Department of Agriculture. The specimen was taken during inspection of a case of Peperomia imported from the John's Nurseries, Apopka, Florida. As this seems to be the first recorded capture of this sex of the species, the following description of the specimen is offered. The Canadian National Collection contains two females, in poor condition, from Ellis Lake, Havelock, N.C., and these specimens together with Stone's description of the female have been utilized for purposes of comparison.

In the district around Belleville, Ontario, the eggs of Mantis religiosa are deposited during the end of August and throughout September. Some embryonic growth occurs after the eggs are laid and before they enter diapause for the winter. Many of the eggs which have over-wintered, however, fail to continue their development so that the percentage of hatch in the following spring is often greatly reduced. This egg mortality varies from year to year. Records obtainrd between 1940 and 1946 by the dissection and incubation of current oothecae collected at the end of March have indicated mortalities ranging from 15.6 to 86.4 per cent. Such mortality has been generally attributed to low winter temperatures although there was also evidence that eggs could be exposed to a temperature as low as−20°C without injury.

Seed growers at Grand Forks, B. C., on the suggestion of Henry Wiebe, Manager, Grand Forks Co-operative Growers' Exchange, used DDT as an emergency measure to control cutworms during the month of May, 1946, after supplies of bait ingredients had been exhausted in that district. The species involved were determined by K. M. King as Euxoa ochrogaster (Gn). with a few E. tessellata (Harr.) , and other related species.

In 1875 (Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. XI, 108) Grote erecied the new genus Agrotiphila, based on a male specimen collected by Theo. Mead in Colorado and which he had determined as montana Morr. (1875, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. XI, 95). His characterization of the genus is as follows: “All the tibiae are spinose. The shape of the abdomen and habitus is as in Anarta. The eyes are naked, encroached upon by the caputal tegument, ovate, narrowed, fringed with lashes, the thorax is thickly and coarsely haired, without tufts. The maxillae are stout. The antennae are simple, thickly ciliate beneath in the male.” Under the specific heading he notes that “my specimen, numbered 28, agrees very well with Mr. Morrison's description, except that the whitish orbicular is open superiorly, somewhat trianqulate, and that the discall marks beneath and on the hind wings above are illegible.” (The italics are mine).