240 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Neoclytus simplarius, sp. nov. 



Elongate, slender, subcylindrical. Pale reddish brown, the 

 apical third or more of elytra fuscous-brown; elytra each with a 

 narrow, oblique bar of white pubescence at basal fourth, and a 

 similar but wider bar of longer white hairs at apical third, both 

 of these bars extending over to the sides of the under surface. 

 Head coarsely, densely, rugosely punctate. Thorax subcylindrical, 

 nearly twice as long as wide, its sides just visibly curved from apex 

 to basal third, then suddenly strongly narrowed into the neck-like 

 base; disc rather finely, very' densely rugosely punctate, the median 

 line with five very small, transverse tubercles. Elytra at base 

 slightly wider than middle of thorax, then feebly narrowed and 

 subparallel almost to apex, the tips separately obtusely angulate; 

 disc minutely, evenly and very densely granulate-punctate, the 

 granules covered with a very fine, velvety pubescence. Middle 

 and hind femora armed at apex with two minute fiat spurs. Length 

 4-8 mm. 



Described from two specimens, beaten from Ampelopsis 

 arhorea L. at Dunedin, March 29 — April 3, and two cotypes in the 

 collection of Chas. W. Leng, taken at Enterprise, Florida, on 

 November 10, from Quercus nigra. The transverse ridges or 

 tubercles of the median line of thorax in the Dunedin types are sp 

 small as to be easily overlooked, and the species, therefore, taken 

 for a Clytanthus, but in one of the Enterprise specimens they are 

 larger and there are two additional tubercles on each side. The 

 species resembles Clytanthus aJbofasciatns Lap. closely in form, 

 size and general colour, but differs widely in the shape and sculpture 

 of thorax and in the arrangement of the pubescent pale bars of elytra. 



(To be continued.) 



THE INSECT COLLECTIONS OF CANADA. 



Collection of Macro-Lepidoptera, owned by 



F. H. Wolley Dod, Midnapore, Alta. 



BY F. H. wolley DOD. 



The collection consists of about twenty-five to thirty thousand 

 specimens. Of these, about three or four thousand are British, 

 with a few other European and some Asiatic examples. These, with 



Tuly 1917 ~ 



