LES COLLECTIONS PROVANCHER 153 
Mr. W. Hague Harrington and the Department of Agricul- 
ture at Ottawa, Canada. 
This study was undertaken in order to determine in s0 
far as possible the correct position of the Provancher species 
in the modern classification and obtain notes which would 
supplement the original descriptions, and thus facilitate re- 
cognition of the species, many of which could not be certain- 
ly identified by the original description. Notes of greater or 
less extent were obtained on all but a few of the species of 
Hymenoptera, excluding the Apoidea, especial stress being 
laid, however, upon the sawflies and the parasitic forms be- 
longing to the Ichneumonoïdea. In some groups our notes 
consisted principallv of a record of the condition of the type. 
The limited time at our disposal made it impossible to at- 
tempt to secure full notes on anv but the groups in which 
we were especially interested. 
This paper is only a list of the species described by Pro- 
vancher with the location, condition and designation of the 
type specimens, and is submitted at this time in order to 
establish definite premises on which to work and thus make 
it possible to publish in the future systematic notes on the 
species with assurance that other workers will be able to use 
our remarks and find the same specimens we examined. 
The only previous comprehensive study of the Provan- 
cher collections was made by Mr. G. €. Davis, who has 
published the results of his study in two reports ”. Davis, 
however, confined himself entirely to the Ichneumonidæ. 
The conclusions reached by him regarding the species, in the 
main, agree with our own, but in a number of instances do 
1. Some notes frem a Study of the Provancher Collection of Ichneu- 
monidæ, 1894. Proc Acad Nat Sc Phil., pp. 184-190. 
Review of a few more Provancher types of Ichneumonidæ, 1895, Can. 
Ent., pp. 287-200. 
