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13. Genus Euproctis, Hiibn. { = Ariaxa, W\k.) 



Type chrysorrhoea, L. Also fifty-three Indian species. See 

 Hampson for the generic synonymy. 



14. Genus Arctornis, Germ. (= \\ Leucotna, Steph.= \\ Laria, Schr.) 



Type L-nignim, Miill. Also eight Indian species. 



15. Genus Stilpnotia, Westw. & Yi\xm\:i.{ = Leucosia, Ra.mh. = C/iara/a, 



Moore = Caragola Moovq = Nymphyxis, Grote.) 

 Type salicis, Linn. Also six Indian species listed under Caviria, 

 Walk., which, however, is a South American genus, and not 

 strictly congeneric with the Indian forms. 



CATALOGUE OF THE PHYTOPHAGOUS AND PARASITIC 

 HYMENOPTERA OF VANCOUVER ISLAND. 



BY W. HAGUE HARRINGTON, F. R. S. C, OTTAWA. 



The following list is based upon a very interesting collection made, 

 chiefly at Cedar Hill, near Victoria, by the Rev. G. W. Taylor, F.R.S.C., 

 but includes such other species as I have found described, or recorded 

 from Vancouver Island. Even with such additions it is a short list in 

 comparison with those that could be compiled from much less extensive 

 areas in Ontario. British Columbia has, as yet, had but few resident 

 entomologists,, and its rich fauna is, in consequence, but poorly known. 

 Butterflies and beetles have been fairly well collected, but in other direc- 

 tions there are almost unexplored fields for investigation. 



I have found but little literature relating to the Hymenoptera of 

 Vancouver Island, and but scanty records of species captured there. 

 Lord, in his interesting narrative of a Naturalist in British Columbia, has 

 an appendix enumerating the insects secured by him, with descriptions of 

 a few new species. Cresson, in a paper entitled Descriptions of Ichneu- 

 monidfe, chiefly from the Pacific Slope of the United States and British 

 North America (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci,, Phil.; Nov., 1S78), described 

 about twenty-five species from the Island, contained in the collections of 

 the late distinguished entomologists, Mr. H. Edwards and Mr. Crotch. 

 The late Abbe Provancher described a few species in the Canadian 

 Entomologist (Vol. XVII., p. 114), and in the Additions to his Petite 

 Faune Entomologique du Canada credits the Island with some thirty-five 

 species, mostly new forms contributed by Mr. Taylor and Mr. Fletcher. 

 The types of some of those species are now in my collection, through Mr. 

 Fletcher's kindness, and have been found very useful for comparison. 



