iijt Caniii)ian Entomologist 



VOL. XXI. LONDON, JANUARY, 1889 No. 1. 



HEMIPTERA FROM MUSKOKA LAKE DISTRICT. 



BY E. P. VAN DUZEE, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



This list is presented as a slight contribution to our knowledge of the 

 geographical distribution of the North American Hemiptera. As our litera- 

 ture of this order is by no means overburdened with faunal lists, I trust that 

 the present will find sufficient excuse for its appearance in the matter it 

 contains. I have made every effort to have the list as accurate and com- 

 plete as possible, under the circumstances. The material was accumulated 

 during a brief collecting tour in the Muskoka Lake District of Canada, in 

 the interval from July 25th to August 3rd, 1888. The particular localities 

 being in the vicinity of Bracebridge, along the Muskoka River to the Lake, 

 and some of the adjoining islands, and along the road from Bracebridge to 

 South Falls. 



For the information of such as are not conversant with the physical 

 features of this beautiful Lake District, I will add that it lies in the 

 metomorphic belt reaching eastward from the Georgian Bay. The surface 

 is somewhat rugged, with bold, rocky bluffs from one hundred to two 

 hundred feet in height, skirting the river and lowlands ; the latter present- 

 ing a good depth of soil, which is elsewhere very thin, in many places 

 quite insufficient to cover the rocks. Coniferae, poplars, birches, and a 

 few oaks form the bulk of the timber on the rocky highlands, with the 

 addition of maple, hickory, beech, basswood, etc., on the deeper soils. 

 The undergrowth is largely hazelnut, with blueberry, raspberry, vjburnurn, 

 spirsea, and other bushes interspersed. Away from the cultivated areas 

 very little grass is to be found ; but carex, cypreus and glyceria take its 

 place to a large extent. The bane of this land is the ever-recurring 

 "bush-fire," and to an entomologist a " burned district " is a wilderness 

 indeed. 



The Hemiptera taken were largely such as might have been expected 

 from this locality, but were more numerous in individuals than I had 



