The beetles enumerated below were all taken within a circle of five miles' radius from Massett, on the Northern Shore of Graham Island—the most northerly of the Queen Charlotte group. This area, though small, is considerably diversified, and favourable to coleopterous life. The island here is flat, and covered with a forest of spruce and hemlock, with a sprinkling of alder. The soil is sandy, and for the most part dry. The coastline includes a stretch of level sand reached only by the highest tides, and strewn with driftwood; a protected pebbly beach and a tract of rough stones, also covered by the high tides. The sandy beach I find most productive, many even inland insects appearing to fall on the loose sand, and, being unable to rise, crawl for shelter under the driftwood. Hills and fresh-water streams (of any size) are absent, and I quite expect these situations, which occur in other parts of the island, to yield, when examined, several additional species.

Mr. C. G. Anderson, of this city, has a friend who is an electric-light trimmer, and began last summer taking the insects that he could conveniently secure whilst on his rounds of duty. When looking over this material recently, Mr. Anderson observed a sphinx moth that seemed strange to him; so he brought it to me to determine, when it proved to be Dilophonota ello, Linn., which is the first reported appearance of this Southern moth that I have heard of since the autumn of 1886, when a number of specimens of it were taken by various persons in different parts of the country.

Perhaps the following short account of a few days' spring collecting here may be of interest to readers of the Canadian Entomologist.

The locality I have worked from during the two years that I have been in the country, is close to the mouth of Fish Creek, about twelve miles south of Calgary, and a mile from the right bank (south) of Bow River. I have a fellow worker about nine miles further west, near the head of Pine Creek, by name Mr. Arthur Hudson, a keen observer, and, I believe, the only entomologist besides myself who has ever collected here for a whole season, and between us we are at present almost daily increasing the list of macro-lepidoptera found around Calgary. We have already over fifty species of butterflies on the list, with three or four more doubtful species, and are confident that we shall be able to make several additions during the coming season. Of the moths, more particularly the Noctuidæ (and their name here is certainly Legion!), new comers never cease, as I think Prof. Smith can testify. When Mr. Elwes paid me a visit in July, 1893, he asked: “Treacle is not much used here, is it?” I replied that I had only been “at it” for a month, and was fairly well pleased with the result, though of course my take might have been exceptional. Were I asked the same question now, I should, without hesitation, reply: “Well, just isn't it, that's all, and from June to October, too!” During last July I not unfrequently counted from sixty to eighty moths on a treacle patch about eighteen inches long and three or four wide, comprising about fifteen or sixteen species. A sight such as that, however, certainly is exceptional. However, I have other modes of collecting to speak of now, as at this early date treacle is scarcely worth working.

Aegiale Streckeri, n. sp., ♂.—Expands from2¼ inches to 3 inches. Upper side.—Superiors rich brown, but not as bright, nor has the brown as much red in it, as in yuccœ. There are three sub-apical costal white spots; a lemon-yellow spot at end of cell; there is a row of five yellow spots running across the wing, parallel with the exterior margin; the upper two are small and square in shape; the lowe three are small and triangular, and there is one in each of the three median interspaces. The inferiors have a yellow marginal border about 1/8 inch in width, the wing being otherwise immaculate, and is clothed with long, silky brown hair. Under side.—Superiors have the spots repeated. Inferiors are gray with a varying number of small white spots—one specimen having two and the other five. The female is larger and has the same number of spots as the male; the three sub-apical spots are white and the remainder yellow; in the female the five spots on the wing are in two series, the two upper being nearer the exterior margin, and the three lower are nearer the base; in the other words, they do not form a continuous line as in the male. This species has been confounded, in collections, with cofaqui, Strecker, which was described froma female. The male of cofaqui, is marked practically like the female, but the male has the long hair on the inferiors as in the new species.

In the May number of The Century, Vol. L., No. 1, p. 89, 1895, there is recorded an item of interest to economic entomologists that is liable to be overlooked and lost, although it deserves a better fate. In an article by Mr. William E. Smythe, on “The Conquest of Arid America,” there is given a carefully-compiled table of all of the expenditures of “the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” in Utah, the figures being furnished, at the author's request, by Mr. A. Milton Musser, Church historian, and by him submitted to the inspection of the Presidents and Bishops of the Church, prior to publication.

XI. The Hydrophilidæ of Ontario and Quebec.

These water-beetles differ from Dytiscidæ especially in having the antennæ terminated by a distinct club instead of being filiform; and while, as the name implies, they are usually found in ponds or streams, they are much more feeble swimmers than the Dytiscids, and are exponents of a more generalized type. Several genera are truly terrestrial in habit, the beetles occurring about decomposing animal matter or in manure. The larvæ somewhat resemble those of the Dytiscidæ in general appearance, but differ so far as my experience goes in having toothed mandibles instead of the single suctorial ones characteristic of the other family. Pupation takes place on land in an underground cell, or in a cavity scooped out beneath a stone or piece of wood.

Genus Hystrichopsylla, Tschb.

1880. Taschenberg, Die Flohe, p. 83.

This genus has but a single species:—

Hystrichopsylla obtusiceps, Ritsema

1826. Curtis Brit. Ent., III., No. 114 (Pulex taipæ).

1831. Macquart, Ann. d. Sci. Nat., XXII., p. 405 (Pulex terrestris).

1868. Ritsema, Tijds. voor Entom., 2 ser. III., p. 173 (Pulex obtusiceps).

1880. Taschenberg, Die Flohe, p. 83 (Hytrichopsylla obtusiceps).

This remarkable flea has a heavier covering of spines and bristles than occurs in any other species. The head combs are on the discs of the cheeks with the spines pointing backward (as in Typhlopsylla gracilis and fraterna), instead of on the lower edges, there being 10 spines on either side. The first joint of the maxillary palpi is the longest. Pronotal comb with 20 spines on either side. The comb on the first abdominal segment consists of 20 spines on either side; that on the second segment, of 12 on either side, and that on the third segment, of 7 on either side. The tarsi are slender. Colour, chestnut-brown. Length of male, 3.5mm., of female, 5–5.5mm. It has been reported as occuring on Talpa europœa and Arvicola arvalis, in various parts of Europe.

Cladius (Trichiocampus) gregarius, n. sp.

Allied to Cladius viminalis, Fallen. The larval habits are also identical, as seen by Dr. J. A. Lintner's account of viminalis in his Fourth Report, p. 44 (as Aulacomerus lutescens). The fly, however, is differently coloured; the larva differs but slightly, in that the lateral black spots are larger than the subdorsal ones, whereas in viminalis the reverse appears to be the case.