I 82 The Ottawa Naturalist. 



delphia, Perm. U. S. A.; probably at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania buildings. The meetings are called to order at 2 p.m. Dec. 26th. 

 Prof. Joseph l.e Conte of Berkeley, California is president 



The meeting promises to be unusually interesting and important. 



Entomology. I. The editor of the On awa Naturalist is indebted 

 to Mr. J. B. Tyrrell of the Oeological Survey Staff for one copy 

 each of two important contributions to the Natural History of 

 Canada, viz. : 



(1.) "Canadian Spiders." By J. H. Emerton, (with four plates) ; from 

 Traits, of the Connecticut Academy, Vol. IX, July, iSgj. 



(2.) Nordamerikanische Hydrachniden, von F. Koenike, Abhand'ungen 

 des Naturwissenchaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen. XIII., Band 2. 

 Heft. pp. 167-226. Bremen, 1S95. 



I. Canadian Spiders. 



The collections of spiders examined and reported upon by Prof. 

 J. H. Emerton, comprise the following : 



1. Rocky Mountains, lat. 49 to 52 , from 3,000 to 5,000 feet, J. B. Tyrrell, 



1883. 



2. Rock) Mountains, near C.P.R., from 5,000 feet, at Laggan, up to 8,500 ft. 



on the neighbouring mountain*. A larije collection by Thos. E. Bean. 



3. Alberta Territory, lat. 51' to 54 , long. 110 to 114 , J. H. Tyrrell. 



4. Saskatchewan River, S. II. Scudder. 



5. Lake Winnipegosis, 1). B. Dowling, 1S88. 



6. Lake of the Woods, A. (_'. Lawson, 1 SS4. 



7. Ottawa, Ontario, J. B. Tyrrell. 



8. Montreal, Quebec, J. H. Emerton. 



9. Interior of Gaspe Peninsula, R. W. Ells, 1883. 



10. Anticosti, Magdalen Islands, and several ports around the Gulf ol St. 



Lawrence, from Port Hawkesbury to Mingan Harbour, Samuel Henshaw, 

 1881. 



11. Labrador, Bonne Esperance, lat. 51 24', lo Triangle I Iarbor, 52 50', John 



Allan, 1882. 



Exactly 100 species of Canadian spiders are described in this 

 interesting report and Prof Emerton states that "as far as can be 

 jndged, from the present collections, the spiders of Canada, differ little 

 from tho-,e of New England." Out of 61 species, from Labrador to 

 Manitoba, 56 species live in New England ; and out of 48 species from 

 the Rocky Mountains, 27 have been found in New Kngland. Among 

 the spiders of Canada are several species that live but little south of its 

 boundary, and there only at high eleva'ions." The most conspicuous of 

 these is Epeira carbonaria^ which lives on the Alps in Europe, in the 





