228 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ENTOMuLOCilCAL COLLECTIONS IN QUEBEC. 



The Report of ihe Superintendent of Public Instruction of the 

 Province of Quebec for the year 1908 09 states that in 1893 the (Govern- 

 ment of the Province purchased ihe collection made by the late Abbe 

 Provancher. This collection is fairly large, and contains in Coleoptera 

 alone 1,903 species, represented by 2,627 specimens. The great value of 

 the collection, however, is the fact that it contains nearly all the type 

 specimens on which the Abbd based his descriptions of hundreds of new 

 species in diflferent orders, especially in the Hymenoptera. The collection 

 remains in the three cabinets in which he had himself arranged it, and has 

 not been disturbed in any way. It is iht-refore available for insi)ection by 

 students at any time, and may be seen by application in the Museum of 

 the Department. 



Another collection of great interest is that made by the Rev. Dr. 

 Fyles during a long series of years that he spent in the neighbourhood of 

 Quebec and in the Eastern Townships. It consists very largely of I^pi- 

 doptera. The specimens are said to be well mounted and in perfect 

 order. There are amongst them some few types of species that he 

 described. 



Among the curiosities of the Museum is an immense Tiger-beetle, 

 two and one-half feet long and one and one half feet high. It is a 

 reproduction in shape and colour of Ciciiuiela purpurtix, and was made 

 by a wood-carver in (Ujebec in icSyS, and exhibited at the Colonial and 

 Indian Exhibition held in London that year. 



It is satisfactory to know that the collections in Quebec are being 

 carefully looked after by the .Abbe Huard, who is an enthusiastic 

 entomologist. C. J. S. B. 



NOTK ON CHIONOBASGIGAS RUTLER. 



I!V E. P. VENABI.E.S. 



.Mr. Cockle's note on the occurrence of Chionohas ,i^ij^as at Kaslo at 

 an altitude of 1,800 feet, is of interest. I also have taken the species in 

 1908 in the Okanagan Valley, twelve miles east of Vernon, altitude 1,000 

 feet, in open meadow land near water. On this occasion I saw two or 

 three more individuals at the same spot, but failed to capture them. 



I also observed the species on the mountain side above the valley 

 in 1909 — " a single individual." It is evident from these observations 

 that the range of this speeies is not confined to the high altitudes alone. 



