14 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



went north to the end of the railroad at Maniwaki. At Montreal, 

 after a day in the cleared-up shrubbery of Mt. Royal and a fruitless 

 visit to St. Hilaire, we, at last, with the help of Mr. Winn and 

 Mr. Corcoran, found the way to some still unspoiled country on the 

 farther side of Westmount, where, in a boggy wood, we found the 

 same forest spiders as in the uncultivated spots at Ottawa and Hull. 

 Consulting with the Montreal entomologists about the hilly country 

 to the north we were recommended to Mcntfort, which proved to 

 be an excellent collecting ground, with ponds and bogs 1,500 feet 

 or mere above the sea and a fauna of a more northern character 

 than Montreal. Next we went to Sherbrooke and Megantic, but 

 rnet wet weather again and only got a few samples of the local 

 spiders. At Quebec, however, there was a week of fine weather, 

 and fcllowing the directions of Mr. Boulton I explored the Gomin 

 Vog, and went for a couple of days to Beaupre and up Cap Tour- 

 m.ente. My time was now getting short, but I took the steamboat 

 up the Saguenay and spent a day at Chicoutimi and in a flying 

 visit to Lake St. John. About a hundred species of spiders were 

 taken during' this trip, and nearly all of these were species well 

 known in Maine and New Hampshire, and most of them all over 

 New England and New York. A little north of the St. Lawrence 

 River and up out of the valley were a few species which occur only 

 in, Northern Maine and the upper forests of the White Mountains. 

 Probably nearly all the species known in New England extend 

 much farther ncrth and west, and fifty of them are already known 

 to extcr.d across Canada to the Rocky Mountains, most of them 

 following the southern border of the spruce forest belt. The best 

 examples of these are two species which live in cobwebs between 

 the branches of small spruce and balsam trees and are compara- 

 tively easy to find. Their distribution, as far as known, is shown 

 on the maps. One, Theridion zelotypum, extends over the whole of 

 Maine except the southwest corner. It crosses New Hampshire 

 at Lake Umbagog and Dixville Notch and extends north of the 

 Canadian boundary as far as Ottawa. It does not occur in the 

 White Mountains, the Adirondacks, Northern Vermont nor 

 around Toronto. Farther west it begins again at Nipigon, on Lake 

 Superior, and continues westward in spruce bogs to Prince Albert, 

 Athabaska Landing, and Jasper Park in the Rocky Mountains. 



