376 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



P. 126, gen. 2S, make this a synonym oi Lopus, Hahn, 1833, Wanz. Ins., 



I, 143, PI. I, f. 4, type C/irysanthei?ii, Hahn { = deco/or, Fall). 



P. 146. add Tribe 27, Lygceoscytini. 



Genus i. Lygceoscytus^ Renter, 1893, E. M. M., xxix, 151, type 



cimicoides, Renter, fig. 



P. S. — I have just received the 3rd volume of Distant's " Fauna of 



British India, Rhynchota" (1906), wherein his doubtful Anthocorid genera 



are figured as follows : 



Ostorodias, f. i ; Armdphus, f. 2 ; Amphiareiis, f. 3 ; Lippomaiius, 



f. 4 ; Sese/Iius, f. 6. Eiispudceus, Renter, is also figured (f. 5), also the 



following Water-bugs : C/ieirochelafea?ia {16), Gestroiella {I'j), Heleocoris 



strabus (19), and Ctenipocoris'{26). I find I omitted from my list the 



Naucorid T/mrseliims, Distant, 1904, Entom., xxxvii, 259, type Greeni 

 (figured F. B. L, f. 21). 



QUEBEC BRANCH— ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF 



ONTARIO. 



The Ninth x-^nnual Meeting of the Quebec Branch was held at the 

 house of the President, Rev. Dr. Fyles, Levis, P. Q, on Oct. 13, 1906 — 

 twelve present. 



Dr. Fyles described an excursion that he had made through the 

 border townships which had been ravaged some years ago by the Larch 

 Saw-fly, Nematus Erichsonii, Hart. He fi^und that in all that section of 

 the country there was not a first-growth tamarack left, and that most of 

 those of a later growth were also destroyed ; their places were now taken 

 by a new growth of balsam, poplar, spruce and birch, varying with the 

 nature of the soil. He also exhibited a fine nest of the wasp Vespa 

 arenar/a, Fab., which he had found in an open field, an inch or so from 

 the grounds supported by some grass stems and that of an aster. It 

 resembled a round stone or a large puff ball, and contained a surprisingly 

 large number of cells. A female emerged from one of the cells on Sept. 9. 



Miss Freeman exhibited a number of beautiful and interesting speci- 

 mens taken at Lorette, P. Q., and mentioned having found about a dozen 

 butterflies, Eitgoiiia J-albutn, in an unoccupied room, where they 

 evidently intended to pass the winter. 



Lt.-Colonel Lindsay gave an interesting account of a Caddis-fly, 

 frequenting lakes and streams, which he found very abundant in August. 

 It is preyed upon by both trout and insectivorous birds, so that between 

 the crop of the bird and the maw of the fish — its Scylla and Charybdis — 

 the unlucky insect finds it difticult to steer its course. 



The following officers were elected for the coming year : President, 

 Rev. Dr. Fyles; Vice-President, Mrs. Richard Turner; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 Lt.-Colonel Crawford Lindsay ; Council, Hon. Richard Turner, Mr. J. H. 

 Simmons, Miss Bickell, Miss Freeman, and Miss Hedge. 



