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Mr. J. D. Evans, at Treuton, was remarkably successful in collecting mic- 

 rolepidoptera in a lantern trap made as described by Mr. W. D. Kearfott. 



A large number of notes of captures have been received from various 

 parts of the Dominion, but some of the writers do not quite seem to under- 

 stand what the scope of this record is, from the point of view of the present 

 compilers. Large and complete lists of insects taken in a given locality 

 are not desired; but merely notes on such as are of rare occurrence there, 

 or concerning which specialists may have given interesting information in 

 their letters. The capture of an insect beyond its recorded range or at an 

 unusual season are records of value. 



We beg gratefully to acknowdedge the greater care which has been shown 

 by several correspondents in giving exact data when these were procurable, 

 and we would now point out that it would help materially in the preparation 

 of Notes of Captures if correspondents, when sending in records, would put 

 opposite each record, the number of the insect in the recognized check list 

 of the order. This has been done by a few and is of very great assistance 

 in making up the E-ecord. 



As in the past, we have again to express the great obligation Canadian 

 collectors are under to the leading specialists in many orders of insects. Par- 

 ticular mention must be made of Dr. L. 0. Howard, Dr. H. G. Dyar, and 

 Mr. D. W. Coquillett, of Washington; Dr. J. B. Smith, of New Brunswick, 

 N.J.; Dr. H. Skinner, of Philadelphia; Mr. W.^ D. Kearfott, of Montclair, 

 N.J. ; Prof. Wickham, of Iowa City; Prof. Hine, of Columbus, 0., and 

 Mr. E. P. Van Duzee, of Buffalo. All of these gentlemen have contributed 

 largely to the exact identification of our Canadian captures during the past 

 year. We again point out the wisdom of the greatest liberality in providing 

 these specialists with any specimens they may desire from Canada. It is 

 only after many years of study and collecting that they have reached the 

 positions they now hold, of being able in a short time to name the specimens 

 :)abmitted to them. If at any time it is indicated that specimens would be 

 acceptable, every effort should be put forth to discharge, in part at least 

 and as soon as possible, the heavy debt of gratitude under whiclj so many 

 of us lie for past favours in the identification of material which, but for 

 the assistance so freely given, would be comparatively useless. 



During 1906 there have been a few expeditions made in Canada for 

 the purpose of collecting insects ; meagre records only of these have been 

 received, either as to the special objects for which they were made, or as to 

 the material collected. The officers of the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 who in the past have collected many scarce insects from the little known 

 regions visited by them in connection with their official work, during the 

 past year, for one reason or another did not bring back many insects. The 

 only collection made was a small one by Mr. L. M. Lambe in British Columbia. 

 This is to be regretted, although the difficulties of collecting and preserving 

 such fragile specimens as insects are well understood, and of course such col- 

 lections are beyond the limits of the regular work for which most of the« officers 

 of the Geological and Natural History Survey Department go to the field. 

 Mr. Theodore Bryant made a valuable collection of lepidontera when en- 

 gaged with the International Boundary Survey of the Alaska Coast strip. 

 His work took him along the Taku Hiver and the Tallsaykway, a tributary 

 of the Taku. Messrs. George White Fraser and Robert Smith of the same 

 survey also made a small but interesting collection chiefly Coleoptera and 

 Hymenoptera in the Skagway District of Northern British Columbia. 

 Messrs. R. Y. Harvey and R. S, Sherman, of Vancouver, made an 

 interesting collecting trip over the Hope Mountains from Fort Hope 

 on the Fraser River, to Princeton on the Similkameen, a distance of 65 



