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Cabin Hotel. As the doors were kept open, these insects entered 

 in large numbers and collected on the window-panes. The most 

 numerous were the flies, though a large proportion of these were 

 ordinary blue-bottles {Calliphora erythrocephala) and allied forms, 

 such as Lncilia ccesar and Cynomyopsis cadaverina} An undeter- 

 mined Anthomyid was very common, but no house-flies were 

 seen. Syrphididae were numerous, the following species having 

 been taken here and elsewhere in the vicinity: Sericomyia 

 chalcopyga Lw., Syrphus ribesii L., 5'. torvus O. S., S. geniculatus 

 Macq., S. umheUatarum Sch., Sphcerophoria cylindrica Say., 

 Xylota vecors O. S., Temnostoma cequale Lw., T. alternans and 

 EristaJis meigenii Wied.^ 



Of Hymenoptera wasps were plentiful and included at least 

 three species of Vespa, viz., V. consohrina, boreaUs and diabolica. 

 Bumblebees were abundant in the bushy clearings and roadways, 

 but nearly all belonged to the characteristic Newfoundland species, 

 Bombus bolsteri Franklin, though I took also B. borealis. The 

 large leaf-cutter bee, Megachile vidua was also occasionally seen, 

 but no attempt was made to collect the smaller bees, nor, in fact, 

 any of the Hymenoptera, the few captures made being quite 

 incidental. These few included two saw-flies, Macrophya trisyllaba 

 and Trichiosoma laniiginosum, a large Cimbicid, which I have taken 

 as far west as Banff, Alta.; a horntail, Urocerus flavicornis; a long- 

 tailed ichneumon-fly, Rhyssa albomaculata, both of similar wide 

 distribution, and a smaller member of the same family, Ichneumon 

 Jeralis. 



The other orders of insects were also of necessity left un- 

 molested. They seemed to be equally poorly represented, the 

 scarcity of butterflies being particularly noticeable. I had ex- 

 pected to pick up a few interesting northern forms, of such genera 

 as Oeneis, Brenthis and Eurymus, but saw only a few of our com- 

 monest Canadian species, such as Brenthis myrina and Euvanessa 

 antiopa . 



Of course, no conclusions can be drawn from such fragmentary 

 observations as these, as to the extent of the insect fauna of Spruce 



Determinations by C. H. T. Townsend. 2. Determinations by M. C. Van 

 Duzee (except T. alternans). 



