ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 53 



XVIII. Bumenidce, — Eumenis 4, Odynerus 4. 



XIX. Vespidce, — Vespa 3, Polistes 4. 



XX. Andrenidce, — Parasphecodes 1, Halictus 7, Andrena 5, Nomia 1, 



XXI. Apidce, — Ooelioxys 1, Megachile 3, Lithurgus 1, Ceratinai 2, Synhalonia 1, 

 Xylocopa 1, Bombus 5, Apis 1. 



In all there are eighty two genera represented by 162 species. The Saw-flies number 

 twenty-one species, but are exceeded by the Ichneumons with thirty- three species, including 

 several fine forms. The Ophion has chitinous spots in the sub-marginal cell as in 0. 

 purgatum, and the Thyreodon is identical in colour with T, morio, but is more coarsely 

 sculptured. The two Chalcis are C. mimtta, Linn, (a cosmopolitan insect), and O. mikado 

 a handsomer species which was not rare on lawn shrubberies. Ants were seldom collected, 

 so that the few specimens taken give no indication of the abundance in which these insects 

 occurred at some places. The species of Tiphia and Dielis were very abundant, the 

 former on umbelliferous plants at Hakone, the latter on lawns. One Pompilus seems 

 identical with our P. higuttatus and the others much resemble American species. The 

 species of Odynerus are larger than ours, and several individuals were found to be 

 stylopized. Two of the wasps are very large and build immense nests, while Polistes 

 were very abundant, building their nests in shrubberies. Among the bees is a very large 

 Lithurgus, which apparently used the leaves of Wisteria for its nests, and a Bombus 

 which seems identical with B. lapidarius of Europe. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 

 By Rev. W. J. FTollaxd, Ph. D., Allegheny, Pa. 



I have just received a specimen of a Erebus odora, which was captured last Wednes- 

 day evening in the lecture room of the First United Presbyterian Church in the City of 

 Allegheny, where its appearance caused no little consternation among the devout "Mothers 

 in Israel," who were at prayer meeting, and who thought it was a bat, of which evil 

 things are said by the unsophisticated. It is a male in good case. This is the third 

 specimen I have received this summer. The first was taken about four weeks ago in the 

 cellar of my father's residence in Bartholomew County, Indiana The second was taken 

 at Jeannette, Pa., near a spring house. All three specimens are fresh in appearance, as if 

 not long from the chrysalis. Undoubtedly this great moth is more than an occasional 

 visitor from the tropics, and should be reckoned as belonging to our fauna, though scarce. 

 Its capture has been recorded north of the Ohio and Potomac many scores of times, and 

 it has been taken repeatedly in Canada. 



Fapilio Cresphontes, Fig, 26, for the first time, has been taken this summer in the 

 neighborhood of Pittsburg and in considerable numbers. One collector obtained four 

 specimens in one locality. The food-plant is Zmthoxylum and Ptelea in these parts. In 

 Florida its larva is abundant upon the orange and lemon trees. 



One of the commonest of our Papilios is Philenor, Fig. 27. Here its larva is found 

 upon Aristolochia. In southern Indiana, in Bartholomew County, I have observed it 

 summer after summer, sometimes in immense number.s. It is one of the commonest 

 butterflies there as here. But, with the exception of one or two specimens of Aristolochia 

 growing about verandahs in the Village of Hope, I think I may safely say there is not a 

 plant of Aristolochia within many miles of the fields in which I have counted the perfect 

 insect by the score. What is the other plant upon which the larva feeds I It runs in my 

 mind that I have read that the caterpillar has been found upon the smart-weed {Poly- 

 gonum hydropiper) but I cannot recall where I have seen this statement made. I have 

 never been able to verify it by observation. Perhaps some reader of the Canadian 

 Entomologist may be able to throw light upon the subject. 



