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Tortrix iuvidana Barnes & Busck. Described from specimens taken at Duncan, B.C. 

 (A. W. Hanham), and Victoria, B.C. (collector's name not given). During the past season 

 the writer was fortunate in capturing four specimens of this new species, one of which is 

 figured on Plate II. 



Peronea maximana Barnes & Busck. Described from specimens taken at Duncan, B.C. 

 (A. W. Hanham), and Victoria, B.C. (A. J. Croker). The writer has also taken this species 

 at Coldstream, and Mr. L. E. Marmont took a nice series at Maillardville, B.C., one of these 

 being figured on Plate II. 



C'oleoptera. 



Aphodius canadensis Garnett. Described in Can. Ent., Vol. 52, page 139, June and July, 

 1920, from six specimens taken by Mr. C. B. Garrett at Cranbrook, B.C. (five), and Crowsnest, 

 B.C. (one). This species is a small shiny black beetle about a quarter of an inch in length and 

 belongs to the family Scarabidaj. 



Eymenoptcra (Parasitic). 



Arotes maurus Rohwer. Described in Pro. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 57, page 517, 1920, from 

 two females taken at Mission, B.C. (collector's name not mentioned). This species belongs to 

 the tribe Acoenitmi of the family Ichneumonidae. This new species of ichneumon-fly measures 

 about three-quarters of an inch in length, with slightly yellowish hyaline wings with dark-brown 

 veins. 



Platycampus victoria MacCillivray. Described in Can. Ent, Vol. 52, page 59, March, 1920, 

 from specimens bred by Mr. W. Downes at Victoria, B.C. This is the adult of the orange and 

 black larvae which are so destructive to the Lombardy poplar in Victoria during September. 

 Reference was made by the writer in Rep. Prov. Mus. Nat. Hist., B.C., 1917, page 9, to a 

 particularly bad infestation during that year. As the larvae are so well known to the average 

 Victorian, a short description of the adult insect taken from specimens bred by the writer 

 several years ago may prove of interest. Head and thorax glossy black; body deep yellow, 

 with two pairs of transparent, iridescent wings. On the front margin of the first pair of wings, 

 two-thirds out from the body, is a blackish mark called the stigma. The antennae or feelers 

 are yellowish in the male and blackish in the female; the three pairs of legs are yellow. It 

 measures about a third of an inch in length and four-fifths of an inch from tip to tip of the wings 

 when spread out. My bred specimens emerged in the first week of June. This species belongs 

 to the family Tenthredinidae. They are popularly known as sawflies from the fact that the 

 abdomen of the female is furnished with a pair of saws which can be pushed out and moved 

 up and down. They are used for making slits in leaves or other vegetable tissue in which the 

 eggs are laid. 



Diptera. 



Melina palustris Melander. Described in the Annals Ent. Socy. Amer., Vol. 13, page 316, 

 Sept., 1920, from over 100 specimens ranging over a wide territory, including Idaho, Wyoming, 

 Montana, Washington, and British Columbia. The specific locality in British Columbia is Nelson, 

 where the specimens were collected by Mr. Melander. This is a small fly measuring about a fifth 

 of an inch in length, with hyaline wings, a blackish body, and a greyish thorax. The flies 

 belonging to this family are generally found on the borders of streams and in marshy places. 



Euparyphus pretiosa Banks. Described in Can. Ent., Vol. 52, page 65, March, 1920, from 

 a single female taken at Vancouver, but the name of the collector is not stated. 



Illustrated Lepidopteba. 



Under this heading we hope to continue to illustrate species which have been recently 

 described from British Columbia ; those of rare and uncommon occurrence and those which 

 have been confused with other species. Many of the species are here illustrated for the first 

 time. 



We have not illustrated in this report the six species described by the writer in Can. Ent.. 

 Vol. 52, page 266 et seq., Dec, 1920, as an excellent plate accompanied the above article figuring 

 each of the species described. 



The number appearing before each name corresponds with a similar number in Messrs. 

 Barnes and McDunnough's Check-list of North American Lepidoptera, 1017. Those with an 

 asterisk prefixed to them have been described since the above " List " was issued. 



