116 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



to see it again, and found it four days after in a sugar camp in the same 

 woods. I recognized it at once by a bad bend in the tip of the wings, 

 caused by a jam of the dish slipping on it. 



On the 27th of March, two weeks later, the first antiopa appeared. I 

 have so far failed to take the larva, but have just seen several imagines in 

 a willow thicket, which gives me hope. They are usually rare, but some 

 years their numbers make them a nuisance. Their color is dark purple 

 with strong black spines. Food plants — Lombardy poplar and willow. 



INSECTS OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. 



COMPILED BY REV. C. J. S. BETHUNE, M. A. 



From Kirby's Fauna Boreaii- Americana : Fnsccta. 



(Continued from Vol. ix., p. 156.) 



[254.] V. HYMENOPTERA. 



FAMILY MEGACHILID./E. 



375. Megachile maritima Stephens. — Length of body 7 lines. 



[271.] Body black, pubescent, thickly and minutely punctured. 

 Mandibles very large, triangular, protended, not crossing each other, 

 armed with four terminal teeth ; face between the eyes thickly clothed 

 with brown hairs, which grow tawny towards the mouth ; antennas 

 filiform ; back of the trunk clothed with brown hairs less thickly in the 

 disk ; wings a little embrowned, especially at the apex ; nervures dusky ; 

 base-covers piceous ; legs hairy with pale hairs ; abdomen subovate with, 

 the three last segments fringed with pale hairs intermixed with black ; the 

 ventral hairs are tawny, paler towards the base, and darker towards the 

 apex. 



FAMILY ANTHOl'HORin.E. 



376. Anthophora bomboides Kirby. — Length of body 6 lines. A 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65". 



