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THE REPORT OF THE 



No. 19^ 



Occurring on the Bark. 



Order Homoptera. 



100. Eulecanium quercitronis, Fitch, This large scale insect was 

 found rather plentiful on the twigs of two large trees at Ottawa on the 

 28th May, 1904, and specimens were sent to Mr. Geo. B. King for identifi- 

 cation. Basswood is not mentioned among the food plants of this species 

 in Mrs. Fernald's catalogue of the Goccidae of the World, so this may be- 

 a new record of the food plant. On the 19 October further examples- 

 were collected from the same trees. These varied in size from 4.5 mm. 

 to 6.5 mm. in length. 



Boring into the Wood. 



Order Coleoptera, 



92 of 1903 list. The 'Northern Brenthid, Eupsalis minuta, Drury. (Fig. 

 11). Among some insects sent to the Division for identification, by Mr. W. 

 Wintemberg, of Toronto, was a specimen of this beetle, with the note "Two 

 specimens found in a piece of basswood near Washington, Ont." This 

 insect is widely distributed over the United States and Canada.. It ia 

 f hiefly an oak borer. 



Fig. 11. The Northern Brenthid (Eupsalis 

 Minuta), Drury. 



101. Clytanthus ruricola, Oliv. Mr. W. H. Harrington tells me- 

 that he has taken specimens of this cerambycid on basswood stumps and' 

 from felled trees. Two dates which he gave me are the 9th and 10th July. 



102. Synchroa punctata, Newman. The Melandryidse, the family 

 to which this insect belongs, are feeders in dry wood, dry fungi and dry 

 vegetable matter generally. This parH:icular species is about 5-lOths of an 

 inch in length, of a brown colour, coarsely punctured and pubescent. Mr. 

 Harrington found three pupae under the bark of basswood at Ottawa, from 

 which he bred the beetles. 



