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ally covering the whole country, it is in reality a list, b}' no means 

 exhaustive, of a single district, to which are added a few records from 

 outside points. Of the two hundred species enumerated all but lifteen 

 occur in the neighbourhood of Ottawa, while only about thirty tive are 

 i-ocorded froni all the rest of Canada. It cannot be supi)used, however, 

 tiiat the family is so centralized around the capital, and it is evident that 

 our knowledge of the forms is yet fragmentary, and that this catalogue 

 is only a preliminary one, a stepping stone lor future workei-s. 



The late Abbé Provancher, an enthusiastic and indefatigable natural- 

 ist, devoted much of his labours to the insects of the Province of Quebec, 

 ])ublishing the results as siii)plements to the Naturaliste Canadien, com- 

 menced in 18G9, and bringing them together in his Petite Faune Ento- 

 molofjique da Canada. The second volume of this work, completed in 1883, 

 is in large part devoted to the Uj'menoptera, and contains the descrip- 

 tions of many now species. The Proctotrj-pidie, pages SST-SfiS, number 

 only eight species, as follows : 



Galesiis quebeceiisis, sp. nov. 



Basalys ruficornls, sp. nov. 



Aneurhynchus spinosus, sp. nov. := O.vyldbis spinosuK, Prov. 



Spilomicrus longicornis, sp. nov. 



Proclotrupes rufiyastcr, sp. nov. 



Proclotrupes abruptus, Saj'. 



Proctotrnpesflavipes, sp. nov. 



Bidiyfits prolongatm, sp. nov. = Pcrisemus prolonyatiix, Prov. 



On ])ago 540, as representing a new genus in the Braconidiv, was 

 described another species : 



Copclus paradoxus, sp. nov. = Helorus paradoxus, Prov. 



On page 808 a further addition is made of Megaspilus lueens, 

 sp. nov. = Froetotrypes Jiavipes, Prov. 



In 188.0 the author endeavoured to bring his work up to date b}' 

 publishing Additions et Corrections au VoUane II de la Faune Entomo- 

 lor/ique du Canada, traitant des Hyménoptères, which includes several 

 additions to the Proctotrypida;, pages 173-184, based largely upon speci- 

 mens contributed by Mr. J. A. Guignard and myself from Ottawa 

 collections. These species are as follows : 



Diitjiria apicalix, Say. 



Aiu'i(rhy)ichus iiierinin, sp. nov. = Ancnrliynchns wrllipcx, Ashm. ? 



Ani'Hi-hywhm ancurux, sp. nov. = PhtlygaMer Ilerrifkii, Pack. 



S/>Uinnirriiiiforea'us, sp. nov. = Para melius clav'pcs, Aslnn. ? 



Clnctitu riuUipes, Say. 



Citu'tns nniottiis, sp. nov. 



Gomtlopus dicipleus, sp. nov. 



liilliylns formicoidefi, sp, nov. = Perisemiis formicoides, Prov. 



Tflciiinnus Ktyyicii.o, sp. nov. = ir<thro]>ilte tirmatus, Say. 



