During the course of examining a white pine tree on May 25, 1945, the writer noticed a small black weevil clinging to the sheath of a needle fascicle, on the current year's shoot. The weevil was in a position parallel to the fascicle, its head directed upward, and its beak resting against the needle sheath. Closer scrutiny revealed a droplet of resin about the tip of the beak, and several small holes in the sheath distal to the beetle. When the beetle was removed, it was in the act of boring another similar hole in the needle fascicle. A brief search resulted in the finding of additional weevils in the same position on other twigs. Since no weevil of this habit on pine could be called to mind, six specimens were collected and two more were taken on May 29.

As will be apparent, a study such as this serves a dual purpose in elucidating certain problems of phylogenetic relationships, either broad or narrow, and at the same time allowing the demonstration of the means by which the chromosomes themselves have undergone changes in their number, morphology, or mechanical properties, during the course of their phylogeny. That is to say, such lines of investigation have a direct appeal to both the taxonomist and the pure cytologist.

In July, 1947, a leafhopper was found causing serious injury to the foliage of loganberries in the Brentwood area of Vancouver Island, B.C. A survey made at that time in southern Vancouver Island showed that this species was widely distributed, and that it occurred also on raspberries and blackberries. In 1948 it was again found injuring loganberries on Vancouver Island and was found also in the lower Fraser Valley; and in 1949 it was observed 40 miles north of Victoria, at Cowichan Bay, feeding on wild blackberry. It is probable that this species had been present in the coastal area of British Columbia for some time before it was first observed in 1947 causing economic damage.

The Division of Entomology in the Canadian Department of Agriculture is now one of the largest entomological services in the entire world, second only to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine of the United States Department of Agriculture. Its staff now comprises over 300 professional officers and its annual budget is in the neighborhood of $3,000,000. Entomology, in such settings is, in the main, economic entomology: ancillary to agriculture. Pursuing this idea to what seems its logical conclusion, the authorities in some parts of the world have attempted, sometimes with success, to break up the entomological body into a collection of subordinate units, each working under more or less specialized agricuImra1 direction; so that the entomologist becomes a member of an agricultural team, concentrating on some special objective. Such arrangements are fairly common in the old world. Outstanding examples in Great Britain are the Horticultural Research Station at East Malling and the Agricultural and Horticultural Research Station at Long Ashton.