1903 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



6541. Donacia femoralis, Kby. Inverness, B.C., July, (Keen). 



697-. Haltica p\inctipennis Lee. June 27 to Aug. 10, common, Aweme, (diddle). 



7082: Odotitota nervosa, Panz. Not common, St. John, (Mcintosh). 



Casiida viridis, L. Dr. Fyles writes fr()m Quebec. " This beetle has again made its 

 appearance in strength. I noticed it first this year on May 29." In my reference 

 to this species in the Entomological Record for 1902, I stated that comment had 

 been made upon Dr. Fyles's article in the Canadian Entomologist by Rev. Elias 

 Roy. This, I regret to find, was a careless mistake on my part, as it Wcis the 

 editor of "Le NaturalisteCanadien" who wrote the comment referred to in a foot- 

 note to Mr. Roy's paper. (J. Fletcher.) 



7304. Coelus globosiis, Lee. Cordova Bay, B.C., May 31, quite numerous in one spot 

 buried in the sand near to, or partly under, logs on the beach ,(Hanham). 



7356. Eleodes pimelioides, Mann. Common under logs, Vernon, (Venables). 



7584. ^^gialites debilis, Mann. Fine series of this very rare beetle, with the laivft? and 

 pup*, have been sent from Metlakatla, by Rev. J. H. Keen. 



7680. Eustrophus bifasciatus, Say. Cote des Neiges, Que., Apr. 10, (Stevenson). 



7729. Ditylus gracilis, Lee. Metlakatla, June, (Keen). 



7993. Schizoh'.s cervicaUs, Newm. Cote St. Paul, Que., May 10, (Stevenson), 



8346. Sitones hispidulus, Germ. Trenton, " veiy common this autumn, not previously 

 taken," (Evans)- 



8540. Grypidiiis cquiseti, Fab. Not common, St. John, (Mcintosh). 



8613. Magdalis Lecontel, Horn. On pine tree, Vernon, May 25, (Venables). 



Hymenopteba. 



The record of Hymenoptera for 1903 was to have been prepared by Mr. W. H. 

 Harrington, but exceptionally heavy oflicial work has made this impossible, and that record 

 must be held over. 



Orthoptera. 



Not much has been done in the way of sending in records of Orthoptera collected during 

 the year, but the following interesting notes from Mr. E. M. Walker, our only Canadian 

 authority on this order, will be read wirh interest. 



" In last year's Record I sent you the name Nemohius palustris. This insect was thus 

 determined by Dr. Scudder, but the species is a new one, nearest allied to palustris. It has 

 just been described by Prof. Blatchley in his report on the Orthoptera of Indiana as 

 ^f. coH^usus. I took the true palustris for the first time this season in Algonquin Park, where 

 it was found among the sphagnum moss of a floating cranberry bog. You can therefore enter 

 both of these names as Canadian. I also took a pair of long-winged specimens of Xiphidirim 

 saltans, formerly known only in the short-winged form, in which these organs are very 

 abortive.'' 



One of the most interesting captures made during the past year was that of the large 

 Cockroach Rhyparobia (Panchlora) maderct. Fab., which was taken by Mr. Bowman, of 

 Messrs. Bowman & Angeime, in one of their warehouses, at St. John, N.B. , and was sent 

 forward by Mr. Mcintosh. Mr. A. N. Caudell, of Washingion, who kindly named the species 

 states that this large cockroach is becoming quite cosmopolitan but has never previously been 

 recorded from the United States or Canada. It is a large species measuring one inch and 

 three-quarters in lengih, expanding two and one-half inches across the wings, with a body 

 nearly three-quarters of an inch in width at the widest part ; the wings are testaceous, crossed 

 by numerous fine straight lines between the narrow nervures. 



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