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evidence indicates that this specimen originated from the Rev. G. W. 

 Taylor, at Victoria, B. C, and it seems possible that a "duplicate" 

 may have been sent to Provancher, the latter being the type of 

 hiiiicauda now in the Quebec Museum. This view is supported by 

 the fact that Provancher is known to have described other species 

 of Ichneumonidae collected by Taylor in the Victoria region and sent 

 to him by other workers (one such lot sent by William Brodie of 

 Toronto was the source of some confusion as to locality and collector), 

 and also by the fact that James Fletcher, honorary curator of ento- 

 mology in the Department of Agriculture, at Ottawa, was at the time 

 in question engaged in a correspondence and traffic in specimens 

 with both Taylor and Provancher. That Provancher attributed the 

 specimen to J. A. Guignard of Ottawa, Ont., may be accounted for 

 by the fact that Guignard, who at that time was Fletcher's assistant, 

 was also in the habit of sending specimens to Provancher. Thus 

 it seems that confusion as to the source and collector of the type of 

 hirticauda might readily have arisen. The fact that recent rearings 

 have corfirmed Victoria as within the range of the species add to 

 the likelihood that the type is a Taylor specimen. 



Specimens (14 d", 219): 9, Bear Wallow at about 8,000 ft., Santa 

 Catalina Mts., Ariz., July 12 to 17, 1916 (New York). 9, Workman 

 Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., Apr. 28, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 

 d\ Langford, B. C, June 8, 1941, K. Graham (Ottawa). 9, Victoria, 

 B. C, 1885 (Ottawa). d\ 29, Victoria, B. C, Apr. 23, 1941, G. A. 

 Hardy (Ottawa). 5d\ 99, Victoria, B. C, July 5 to 13, 1956, Forest 

 Insect Survey (Ottawa), tf, Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 22, 1956, W. 

 Middlekauff (Berkeley). 2d\ Camino, Calif., June 28 and 29, 1948, 

 Townes family (Townes). 4 c?, 9, Crane Flat, Yosemite Park, Calif., 

 July 22, 1948, Townes family (Townes). 9, Glenville, Kern Co., 

 Calif., Apr. 24, 1949, Linsley, MacSwain, and Smith (Berkeley). 

 9, Huntington Lake, Calif., July 7, 19 — , Blaisdel (San Francisco). 

 9, Lake Tahoe, Calif., Aug. 28, 1948, R. M. Bohart (Townes). 9, 

 hills back of Oakland, Calif., May 11, 1930, E. C. Zimmerman (San 

 Francisco). 9, Snow Flat at 8,700 ft., Yosemite Park, Calif., July 26, 

 1948, Townes family (Townes). 9, "Trinity," Sonoma Co., Calif., 

 Dec. 20, 1932, N. W. Frazier (Berkeley). 



Hosts: Records include rearings from Gracillaria sp. on Quercus 

 garryana at Langford and at Victoria, B. C, in 1941, and from 

 Malacosoma pluviale (Dyar), at Victoria, B. C, in 1956. According 

 to information provided by Mr. D. Evans of the Forest Biology 

 Laboratory, at Victoria, the rearings from Malacosoma are the only 

 records of recovery of this species from many thousands of Malacosoma 

 larvae reared at Victoria since 1949. 



