THE OTTAWA NATURALIST 



VOL. XXVIII. DECEMBER, 1914. No. 9. 



LIST OF TACHINID^ FROM THE PROVINCE OF 



QUEBEC* 



By J. D. ToTHiLL. 



The following list contains 49 species of Tachinidae from 

 the province of Quebec. A number of the species were captured 

 at Ottawa, but as this place is only separated from the province 

 of Quebec by the Ottawa river, it is certain that all these species 

 must occur in the neighbouring portions of Qtiebec and for this 

 reason it seems advisable to include them in the present list. 



It is certain that this list represents only a very small pro- 

 portion of the Tachinidae that must occur in this large province. 

 Many of the most common species, for instance Tachina niella 

 Walk, and Froniina frenchti Will., do not appear in the list. 

 This means that collectors in this province, either amateur or 

 professional, would be well repaid by turning their attention to 

 the group. 



The list has been compiled from two sources: (1) the col- 

 lection of the Entomological Branch at Ottawa, and (2) records 

 contained in literature. In the case of records from the foriner 

 source the precise locality is stated and this is followed by the 

 collector's name in parenthesis. In the case of records from the 

 latter source the name of the person responsible for the original 

 record is given ; in all cases where the record appears in Aldrich's 

 Catalogue of N. A. Diptera(1905), reference is made to the original 

 publication containing the record. The references are made 

 by a letter index. 



The majority of the species in the present list were orig- 

 inally recorded by Mr. G. Chagnon in his "List of Canadian 

 Diptera" which appeared in the Entomological Student, Vhil- 

 adelphia. Vol. II, 5-8 and 13-15; and by Dr. T. W. Fyles, in his 

 "Quebec Diptera," which appeared in the Canadian Ento- 

 mologist, XXXV, p. 234, August, 1903. These records are 

 embodied in Aldrich's "Catalogue, " so that in the present list 

 no specific reference has been made to the above two papers. 



♦Contribution from the Entomological Branch, Department of Agri- 

 culture, Ottawa. 



