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condition of the type. The Hmited time at our disposal made it 

 impossible to attempt to secure full notes on any but the gro'ups 

 in which we were especially interested. 



This paper is only a lis-t of the species described by Provancher 

 with the location, condition and designation of the type speci- 

 mens, and is submitted at this time in order to establish definite 

 premises on which to work and thus make it possible to publish 

 - in the future, systematic notes on the species with assurance that 

 other workers will be able to use our remarks and find the same 

 specimens we examined. 



The only previous comprehensive study of the Provancher 

 collections was made by Mr. G. C. Davis, who has published the 

 results of his study in two reportsf. Davis, however, confined 

 himself entirely to the Ichneumonidse. The conclusions reached 

 by him regarding the species, in the main, agree with our own, 

 but in a number of instances do not coincide with ours. Davis 

 made no attempt to establish lecto types for the species, and, there- 

 fore, it was often impossible for us to determine on wTiat speci- 

 men he based his conclusion. 



Provancher's Life and Work. 



Practically the first Canadian and in fact one of the first 

 Americans to make a serious and comprehensive study of the 

 Hymenoptera of Canada was Abbe Leon Provancher. Abbe 

 . Provancher was a French Canadian who was born, brought up 

 and spent most of his life in the Province of Quebec. He died in 

 1892, and brief accounts of his life and work were afterward pub- 

 lished in a number of journals.* Some years later Abbe Huard 

 began a more extended biography which appeared in various 

 issues of Le Naturaliste Canadien,** a magazine founded and edited, 

 until shortly before his death, by Provancher. Since Provancher 



tSome notes from a Study- of the Provancher Collection of Ichneumonidae, 

 1894, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phi!., pp. 184-190. 



Review of a few more Provancher types of Ichneumonidae, 1895, Can. Ent., 

 pp. 287-290. 



*See especially Can. Ent., Vol. 24, 1892, pp. 130-131, and Entom. News, 

 Vol. 6, 1895, p. 209, pi. IX. 



**This interesting account has never been completed, but Abbe Huard told 

 us it was his intention to complete it and we certainly hope he finds an oppor- 

 tunity to do so. For the parts published, see Nat. Can., 1894, 1895, 1896, 

 1897, 1898. 



