280 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



RELATIONSHIP OF THE FAUNA OF PUGET SOUND TO 

 THAT OF MEXICO AND CANADA. 



BY WILLIAM HAMPTON PATTON, HARTFORD, CONN. 



The fauna of Paget Sound [as shown by a collection of fifty species of 

 Hyraenoptera from Seattle, Washington, kindly sent me by Prof. O. B. 

 Johnson, of the University of Washington] is most like that of Canada, no 

 genera differing. 



Sphex Lucce, Sauss, and Astata monta?ia, Cress., are interesting 

 exceptions. 



Sphex LuccB, Sauss, shows relationship to California and Lower 

 California. Originally described from Cape Saint Lucas, Mexico. I have 

 identified it among specimens from Lake Co., Calif., kindly sent me by 

 Mr. Oscar T. Baron, and it is found among the species froni Seattle, 

 collected by Prof Johnson. 



Astata montana, Cress. (Syn. Ast. elegans, Cress., ^ 5 ; Syn. Ast. 

 bella, Cress., ^ ; — the three names belong to one variable species), shows 

 a relationship to the Plateaux Region ; occurring at Guanajuato, Mex., on 

 the Mexican Tableland, where it has been collected by Dr. Duges, as 

 identified from a female specimen presented by me to the U. S. N. M., 

 and occurring throughout the Western United States, extending east to 

 the Plains. 



SPHINX CANADENSIS, BOISDUVAL. 



Prof C. H. Fernald says in his Sphingidse of New England : " This 

 very rare moth was taken at flowers in Bangor, Maine, early in July, by 

 Prof Carl Brown, who kindly loaned me specimens for study." I have 

 pleasure in announcing that this rare Sphinx has been added to the 

 Society's collection, by Mr. C. G. Anderson, who, by industrious attention 

 to bait and electric light, has accumulated a surprising amount and 

 diversity of good material during the first part of the season. 



This is the first report of S. Canadensis being taken in Ontario, that 

 I am aware of Mr. Grore refers to it as a Northerly species ; and gives 

 its habitat as Canada, Newfoundland, Maine. Rev. T. W. Fyles and 

 Mr. Sirecker have reported it from Quebec Province, but Mr. Strecker 

 afterwards received a specimen that was taken near Cincinnati. Nothing 

 as yet seems to be known of its early stages or food plants. Mr. 

 Strecker's excellent coloured illustration of it in his Rhopaloceres and 

 Heteroceres Plate XIII., fig. 13, is unmistakable, whilst his description,, 

 page 106, under the name of 6". Plota, supplemented by that of Prof. 

 Fernald, leaves nothing further to be desired in that direction. Mr, 

 Anderson has also taken what appears to be a black form of 5". Gordius. 



J. Alston Moffat, London, Ont. 



