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Vol. XLIV. LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1912. No. 11 



SYNONYMY OF THE PROVANCHER COLLECTION OF 



HEMIPTERA. 



BY E. P. VAN DUZEE, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Through the kindness of Rev. A. Huard, of Quebec, I recently had 

 an opportunity to examine the Provancher collection of Heraiptera now- 

 deposited in the Museum of Public Instruction in the Parliament Buildings 

 in that city. This collection has been well cared for and is in excellent 

 state of preservation. The main part of the collection seems to represent 

 the exact material used by the Abbé in the preparation of the Hemiptera 

 volume of his Petite Faune Entomologique du Canada, practically all the 

 species included in that volume being in the collection in the same order 

 as in the book ; the few additional species being in most cases placed 

 between the regular rows of the arrangement. Usually there is but one or 

 at most two specimens of each species and the labels seem to be in 

 Provancher's own handwriting. There are no "types" so indicated nor 

 could I find any trace of the types of his species published in 1872. in 

 Vol. IV of the Naturaliste Canadien, and I am convinced that he 

 incorporated this material with his general collection at the time he pub- 

 lished the Petite Faune, or so much of it as he then possessed, and con- 

 sequently that it will be impossible definitely to locate all of his earlier 

 species. The Petite Faune collection however contains Provancher's 

 determination of most of his 1872 species and so far as these specimens 

 agree with his first descriptions they must be taken as representing the 

 nearest approximation to types of his earlier species now in existence. 



When starting for Quebec I took with me a good series from my own 

 collection for comparison, covering atl the species of which I felt in doubt, 

 and by this means I was enabled to locate nearly all of the species in the 

 Petite Faune and most of those of 1872. 



In the following notes I have thought it best to give my determination 

 of each of the Petite Faune species, indicating all uncertain forms where I 

 had no material with me for direct comparison and so was obliged to 

 depend upon my memory for the determination. Under each species I 

 give first the page in the Petite Faune, followed by the name as there 



