THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 77 



possibly exist in the future as rarities. Four (di/igc?idus, Sayi, hutuosus., 

 nmtits) will occur not uncommonly, while two (stygicus and luaibla7i(his) 

 will remain, as now, common. 



It may not be out of place to remark that with two exceptions, the 

 individuals of these species do not vary notably from a certain type 

 belonging to each ; and that these two, namely, stygicus and hicublandus, 

 are the ones that possess the greatest power of accommodation. Adoxiis 

 varies in regard to the posterior angles of the thorax, but all the indi- 

 viduals of each locality conform to one type, so far as observed. 



So far as known, none of them are in any way injurious to man, or to 

 vegetation ; and in the absence of such a record, may be set down as 

 beneficial, owing to the carnivorous habits of the larvae. In fact, except 

 as to their mere existence and the mode of distinguishing them by external 

 anatomical differentiation, entomological literature is silent. 



THE ENTOMOLOGY OF VANCOUVER ISLAND. 



Notes OH Eighty Species of Hy7ne7ioptera Collected near Victoria, 



Vancouver Island, in 1882. 



BY GEORGE W. TAYLOR, VICTORIA, B. C. 



All the insects mentioned in the following notes were captured by 

 myself during the season of 1882, which was my first year in this island, 

 and were taken for the most part on flowers in the course of my rambles. 

 Some of the Ichneumons, however, were bred from the pupae of Lepi- 

 doptera, and a few species were taken at rest, at light, or in other more or 

 less usual ways. 



The eighty species here enumerated have been examined and deter- 

 mined for me by Mr. W. Brodie, of Toronto (to whom I am much 

 indebted for this and other kindnesses), and they are therefore nearly all 

 of them included in the check list issued last year by the Natural History 

 Society of Toronto. In fact, the only names that I do not find in that 

 list are Halictus Icevipeimis and Etirra albitarsis, but they may perhaps 

 be there under other names which in my ignorance of synonymy I fail to 

 recognise. 



