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"Notes on 76 species of Cicindelidae and Carabidae collected near Vic- 

 toria." Forty of these were apparently new to the Canadian Fauna. 

 The next reference to this order was a list of beetles collected by the 

 Rev. J. H. Keen at Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands. They comprised 

 142 species and were presented by him to the Provincial Museum -in 

 1897. No further lists in any order appear to have been published until 

 the appearance of the Quarterly Bulletins of this Society, which com- 

 menced in March, 1906. Ten of these Bulletins were issued, the last 

 one bearing the date of June, 1900. Much interesting information is 

 contained in them, and partial lists of many orders were given, appar- 

 ently the work of one man^the late Capt. R. V. Harvey.. I would like 

 to see these lists revived, as our knowledge of the species in many orders 

 is woefully deficient, but I am glad to say that in a few orders in which 

 some of our present members are working, very useful and valuable 

 records are being compiled, and I sincerely hope that the day is. not far 

 distant when we shall be able to publish fairly complete lists of the 

 chief orders of insects occurring in the Province. While speaking of lists 

 and before taking up the more recent work of our members, a few brief 

 words on those that have been published in the past will probably be 

 of interest. To my mind a comparison of lists of different dates is a 

 fairly accurate indication of the work accomplished between the times 

 of their compilation. At any rate a comparison of our B. C. lists 

 shows this to a marked degree. The following notes refer to Lepidoptera 

 exclusively — this order being the one which has the largest number of 

 students and is also the one which first attracts the attention of the 

 young collector. 



The first list that I can find that is devoted to B. C. insects was 

 published in 1891. It is contained in a publication entitled, "Papers 

 and Communications read before the Natural History Society of British 

 Columbia," Vol. 1, No. 1. It contains a list of 29 species of butterflies 

 taken in Victoria in the preceding year. 



In 1893 the same society published another Bulletin, which con- 

 tained a "Report on the Entomology of British Columbia by W. H. 

 Danby and C. de Blois Green." Some progress had been made in those 

 two years, as the 29 species of Butterflies had grown into 90, along with 

 71 species of moths, which included 2 sphingids, 9 arctiids and 53 

 noctuids. The geometers taken at that period were not named, owing 

 to the difficulty of getting them determined. 



In 1898 the late John Fannin published a "Preliminary List of the 

 Collections of Natural History and Ethnology in the Prov. Museum." 

 Apparently very little entomological work had been done during those 

 five years, as the butterflies had only been increased by four species 

 and the noctuids by two. The geometers still remaining unlisted. 



In 1903 Dr. H. G. Dyar visited the Kaslo district where, under the 

 guidance of one of our old members, Mr. J. W. Cockle, he made large 



