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former. Propodeum with a broad, smooth, median carina which 

 runs only to the base of the neck; on each side of it a flat groove 

 which is densely, finely scabrous like the surface of the neck, and 

 bounded b>- a delicate carina laterad; a quadrate area laterad of 

 this carina is divided obliqueh" into a glabrous half-area (cephalo- 

 mesad) and a half-area which is foveo-sulcate ; this is really formed 

 by a lateral groove narrowing mesad which extends laterad from 

 the apex of the groove alongside the median carina, and then 

 ccphalad to a point just mesad of the spiracle; therefore, there is a 

 lateral carina which forms the lateral and caudal margins of this 

 groove, and extends besides some distance down the neck of the 

 propodeum. Thisgroo\'e really encircles (cephalad) the spiracle. 

 Hind cox?e scaly (dorsal aspect). Face with a X-shaped suture, 

 the point of crossing at about the apex of the scrobes. scaly ventro- 

 laterad of each antenna. The latter are inserted at about the ends 

 of the eyes. A suture leads from the cephalic ocellus to the point 

 of crossing of the diagonal ones. Occiput finely scaly. 



The second segment of the abdomen occupies three-fourths of 

 the surface. The propodeum is nearly as in Pseudomphale. 



From the female type in the U. S. National Museum on a tag. 



Type.— CditaXogne No. 131 /-fo \^. S. N. M.;plus a slide with 

 antennae and pair of wings. 



THE INSECT COLLECTIONS OF CANADA. 



BY A. F. WINX, WESTMOUNT, P.Q. 



At the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of On- 

 tario, held at Guelph in November last, instead of adding a presi- 

 dential address -to the alread}' lengthy programme, I made a few 

 remarks on the Insect Collections of Canada, and suggested that 

 it might be of interest not only to the members of the Society but 

 also to many fixing beyond our borders to know just where the 

 various collections, public and private, are situated and something 

 about what the>' contain. 



The idea seemed to meet with the approval of the meeting, 

 and the Editor was willing to find space in the pages of "The 

 Canadian Entomologist" for a series of articles describing briefly 

 any collections of which data could be obtained; the descriptions 

 might include mention of any notable varieties or types, collec- 



March, 1917 



