Smith, G. Stace

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Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia

28 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOc. OF BUlTlISH CO IX)IBlA , PllOC. (1945), VOL. 42, DEC. 8, 1945 ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS BY A. W. HANHAM All in the Ganad·ian Entomo logist (C. E.) a nd the P?'oceecl'ings of the Ent01Jw logicai Soc·i. ety of B r itish Co lumbia (Proc.) 1884. Entomological notes. C.E. 16 (5) : 98-99. 1886. EntomQlogical notes, Spring, 1886. C.E. 18 (7) : 137-139. 1894. Notes from my diary, Quebec, 1893. C.E. 26 (10) : 294. 1894. Notes on Quebec Coleoptera. C.E. 26 (1 2) : 350-352. 1895. List of butterflies taken at Winnipeg, Man., 1894. C.E. 27 (5) : 123-1 24. 1897. Brephos middendorfi, Men . C.E. 29 (1) :3. 1897. A list of Manitoba moths. C.E . 29 (12) :291-29 7. 1898. Notes on collecting "at light." C.E. 30 (2) : 33-36. 1898. A list of Manitoba moths. C.E. 30 (3) : 65-69. 1898. Notes on collecting at bloom. C.E. 30. (7 ) : 188-190. 1899. A list of Manitoba motlh s. Part II. C.E. 31 ( 3) :49-52. Part III , 31 (8) :197-206. Part IV, 31 (11) :312-320. 1900. Additions to the list of Manitoba butterflies, with notes on other species. C.E. 32 (12) : 365-367. 1901. List of Manitoba moths. Part V. C.E. 33 (8) :213-220. 1914. Sunflowers as a lure for the Plusiidae. C.E. 46 (4) : 145-147. 1924 . Notes on collecting at flowers a nd blossoms. Proc. 21: 15-19. , COLLECTING NEOCLYTUS PROVOA NUS AND N. BALTEATUS (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) .-In 1931 when the late Ralph Hopping identified Neoclytus pro-voanus Casey for me he noted that it may be a variety of balteatus LeConte. In the description Casey men-tions that he at fi rst thought it migh t be balteatus. The qu estion is still u nans\\'ered. There are several characters separating th e two and in a fa irly good series of both spec ies these character s hold . Th e most conspi cuous difference is in the basal band of the elvt ra, wh ich in balteatus is sharply definerl. bu t ill provoanus extends over most of the base . Recently C. A. Frost examined some of my material , and of provoanus \'I.' rites: " I think it is a very good spec ies ." But there is one suspiciou s point: both forms are t aken together on the same unexpected plant . Sin ce, at Creston . B.C. , I d iscovered their hide·out I h ave not had an oppor tunity to inves tigate if the same hold s good for other loca li ties . They are found on th e underside of the large lea\"es of mul lein (Verbasc um thapsus ) in the late afternoon and e\·en j n~. In t hi ~ way I have taken 10 balteatu s (Ju ly 7·25) and 16 provoanus ( July 1 3·Aug. 10). Nothing is known of the lan·ae. I h ave searched numerous plants, from the roots upward s, and am cO IH"inced that Verbascum . besides being an alien, is not the host.- G. Stace Smith, Creston, B .C. NEW MEMBERS Elected a t the 44th Annual Meeting, Feb. 24 , 1945 . Bavers tock, Willi am-Provincial Hor ticultural Branch, Vernon, B.C. GUPI"', Richard-R.R. 1, Marin e Drive, Wellington, B.C. \ Muir, Mrs. Margaret A.-Ganges, Salt Spring I sland, B .C. Palmer, B. F.-Kaslo, B.C. \vi senele n, Miss Grace--Box 236, Prince George, B.C. Associate Member Riedeman n, Karl Anton-Alkali Lake Ran ch, Alkali Lake, B.C. STDIICHNUS OVIPENNIS I N BRITISH COLUMB IA (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae) .- Casey elescribed ov i-pennis frol11 Cali forn ia as a species of Scydmaeoll s (189 7. An n. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 9: 4 80·481) . A si ngle specim en of thi s tiny reddish ·brown beetle, slightly less th an 1.5 mm. long, was found about 5 miles north of Lumby , B.C. , September 16, 1943. It was unde r an o ld boa rd lyin g on the top of a co niferou s stump on the site of an abandoned mill; identified by W. J . Bro ll"n .- Hugh B. Leech. The Proceedings of the E ntoJllological Society of British C olumbia is published annually. Individual volumes may be had f or SOc. Spec ial rates on sets_ Address Secretarr-Treasurer, Entomologica l So-ciety of British C olumbia, Box 308,Ver-non, B.C. 

Collecting Neoclytus provoanus and N. balteatus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

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