164 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



for the coming year : A. E. Norris, president ; A. F. Winn, vice- 

 president ; Geo. A. Moore, 24 Lome avenue, secretary-treasurer ; D. 

 Brainerd, librarian and curator ; H. H, Lyman, Charles Stevenson and 

 Lachlan Gibb, council. 



Mr. A. E. Norris read a paper, illustrated by lantern views prepared 

 by himself, on Hydrcecias and several other Lepidoptera. 



Charles Stevenson. 



APHODIUS ERRATICUS, LINN., ON MONTREAL ISLAND. 



BY CHARLES STEVENSON, MONTREAL. 



With the opening of the season, my son, Kenneth R. Stevenson, has 

 proceeded to keep up his reputation as a Coleopterist by finding two 

 specimens oi Aphodius erraticus, Linn., on the first of May under stones 

 on a waste piece of ground in Maplewood, near Montreal. 



This beetle is widely distributed throughout Europe, and has been 

 identified by comparison with a series of the species from France and 

 Italy in the collection of Mr. G. Chagnon. I can find no previous 

 record of its being taken in Canada among the lists I have had reference 

 to. It was taken by the late Otto Lugger, near Baltimore, some years 

 ago, and was described previously by Melsheimer under the name 

 pejisvallensis, from a specimen of which there are doubts as to whether it 

 was a native or an accidental cabinet specimen. Dr. George H. Horn 

 describes it in his monograph of the Aphodiini as inhabiting the United 

 States {Trans. Amer. Etit. Soc, XIV., Jan. iSSj, p. y), and it is in 

 Henshaw's List under No, 5514. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS-. 



The Curator begs to acknowledge with grateful thanks the receipt of 

 a box of Coleoptera from Mr. Norman Criddle, Aweme, Manitoba, 

 containing over one hundred specimens, representing about fifty species ; 

 also from the same gentleman twelve specimens of Lepidoptera, 

 including the following interesting species : Chionohas Alberta, 

 Hemileuca maia var. lucina, Dysocnemis berealis, Pseudotamila Avemensis, 

 Leucobrephos Middendorfi and Apocheitna Rachelce. 



From the Rev. C. C. Waller, Principal of Huron College, London, 

 Ont., specimens of the Carpenter Ant ( Camponotus Pennsylvanicics) and 

 portions of a Basswood tree showing its work. 



