156 LE NATURALISTE CANADIEN 
A—Collection in the Public Museum at Quebec. 
The collection in the Museum of Natural History, under 
the Department of Public Instruction, is now housed in the 
. Parliamentary Building in Quebec, and is cared for by Abbé 
V. À. Huard and his assistant. In this Museum there are 
really two Provancher collections. The first was purchased in 
1877 by the Museum and is known as the 1877 collection 
(in this paper referred to as the first collection). The other 
collection came to the Museum (through purchase) after 
Provancher's death, and is known as the Dernière Provan- 
cher collection (in this paper referred to as the second collec- 
tion). Both of these collections are in the cabinets obtained 
from Provancher, and most fortunately are still left as ar- 
ranged by him. Kach collection contains species not repre- 
sented in the other, but in cases where the species was found 
represented in both collections and there was nothing in the 
description or manuscript notes to prevent, we have chosen 
as lectotype a specimen from the second collection, because 
this was the collection retained and used by Provancher until 
his death, and we are inclined to believe, even though he 
was not a “type-worshipper, ” that he would retain the 
actual type for future reference. Specimens in both collec- 
tion bear small, yellow labels on which a number is printed. 
These numbers are species numbers and refer to a catalogue 
prepared by Provancher. Each insect order in both collec- 
tions begins with the number one. In the Hymenoptera, 
therefore, considering both collections as a unit, we often 
have two, usually widely different species under the same 
number. There appears to be no instance in which the same 
species occurs under the same number in both collections. 
The two collections differ in the style of name label. The 
name label for the 1877 collection is on blue paper, while 
