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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. , 6 



nis and cupripennis ; Pterostichus stygicus ; Hydrophilus glaber ; Sta- 

 phylinus violaceus ; Brontes dubius ; Osmoderma scabra ; Lachnosterna 

 fusca ; Penthe obliquata ; Nyctobates pensylvanica ; Dendroides Cana- 

 densis ; Melandrya striata ; Centronopus calcaratiis ; Dacne heros ; besides 

 a number of minute species that we have not yet had time to determine. 



EXTRACT FROM MR. BEXTHAMS ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS 



TO THE LIXXEAX SOCIETY. 



We have ventured to reprint the following extract from Mr. Bentham's 

 address, feeling sure that it will be read with great interest by all 

 students of Entomology in this country. — Ei>. C. E. 



There is no country, however, in which the native Flora and Fauna 

 lias been so long and so steadily the subject of close investigation as our 

 own, nor where it continues to be worked out in detail by so numerous 

 a staff of observers ; . . . but the Entomological Fauna of our country, 

 especially in relation to the insects of the adjoining Continent, notwith- 

 standing the numerous able naturalists who devote themselves to its study, 

 appears to be somewhat in arrear. 



In answer to my query as to works where our insects are compared 

 with those of other countries, I have received from our Secretary, Mr. 

 Stainton, the following reply : — " The questions you have put to me with 

 reference to our Entomological literature are very important ; they, how- 

 ever, painfully call my attention to the necessarily unsatisfactory nature 

 of my replies. Wollaston's ' Coleoptera Hesperidum 5 is the only separate 

 work to which I can direct your attention as giving the fauna of a par- 

 ticular district, with the geographical range of such of the species as are 

 likewise found elsewhere. R. M'Eaehlan, who in 1865 had published 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc, ser. 3, v.) a Monograph of the British Caddis-flies, 

 gave, in 1868 (Trans. Ent. Soc. for 1868), a Monograph of the British 

 Xeuroptera Planipenna, but little is there said of the European range 

 of our species. In 1867 (Entom. Monthly Mag., iii.) Mr. M'Eaehlan, 

 who is one of our most philosophical writers, gave a Monograph of the 

 British Psocidse, and he there says, with reference even to their distri- 

 bution in our own country, ' As a rule, I have not mentioned special 

 localities ; these insects have been so little collected that an enumeration 

 here of known or recorded localities would probably appear ridiculous 



