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THE REPORT OF THE 



No. 19 



a goodly start will be made during 1905 in the pages of tlie Canadian Ento- 

 mologist towards a Canadian list, that I hope to see largely added to from 

 ^eax to year. 



From Mr. T. N. "Willing, Regina, the following are of especial inter- 

 •est; 



Olethreutes vetulana, Wslm. Recorded from California and Texas. 

 Eucosma argentialhana, Wlsm. Recorded from Texas. 

 Eucosma culminana, Wlsm. Recorded from California. 

 Eucosma illotana, Wlsm. Recorded from Oregon. 

 Thiodia parvana, Wlsm. Recorded from Oregon. 



Semioscopsis inornata, Wlsm. Locality 'unknown' in Dyar's Catalogue; 

 this is first record of locality. 



From Mr, Norman Criddle, Aweme, Man., a large and beautifully ex- 

 panded collection, two of which must be noted here. 

 PseudogaUeria inimicella, Zell. Hitherto only taken in the Atlantic States. 



The larvae are borers in the stems of Smilaceoe. (Busck.) 

 Eueosma Scxidderiana Clem. Common in Eastern States, not before 

 recorded from so far west. 



I have also received from Manitoba, very interesting lots from Mr. E. 

 Firmstone Heath and Mr. A. J. Dennis, a complete paper on all of this 

 Manitoba material will shortly appear in the Canadian Entomologist. 



From Rev. G. W. Taylor and Mr. Theodore Bryant very complete col- 

 lections of Vancouver Island specimens. A paper on these will follow that 

 on the Manitoba material. 



From Mr. C. H. Young, Hurdman's Bridge, near Ottawa, Ontario, the 

 most beautifully prepared examples I have ever seen of about seventy species, 

 some of them new. His list will appear elsewhere. From Ontario I have 

 also a small collection from Mr. H. S. Saunders, of Toronto, and another 

 from Mr. Albert F. Winn, of Montreal, whose records of captures will be 

 elsewhere recorded. 



It may not be amiss to state that at the present time the localities that 

 have been the least worked and from which the most valuable material can be 

 expected, are Eastern Canada, the Maritime Provinces, and of course all of 

 the territory north of Eastern Canada. Both Mr. Young's and Mr. Winn's 

 collections contain many surprises, and throughout the extreme eastern re- 

 gion will be found species, hitherto only known from Labrador and Northern 

 Maine and doubtless connecting links with the European fauna. It is 

 hardly necessary to add that my services are always at the disposal of any- 

 one wanting names of species of the families in which I am working." — W. 

 D. Kearfott. 



Among the specimens of Micros reared at Ottawa was one ,of more than 

 usual interest Sinia'this Fahriciana, L., several specimens of which were bred 

 by Mr. Arthur Gibson from larvoe collected 24th May, 1901, in the tips of 

 stinging nettles (Urtica gracilis). Specimens were again reared by Mr. 

 Young last summer. Mr. Kearfott says of this moth that it is a European 

 species never previously recorded from America. The Ottawa specimens are 

 slightly larger than the typical form. 



Another small moth, of considerable interest from the injury done by 

 the larvae to the young twigs of the Ash-leaved maple in Manitoba and the 

 Northwest Territories, has recently been named Froteopterya: WiUingana, by 

 Mr. Kearfott. (Can. Ent., xxxvi., p. 306.) 



