Spilotus quadripustulatus (Melsheimer)

NOVA SCOTIA: Hants Co.: Panuke Lake, 1–16.vii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia. In Québec, most specimens have been captured in light traps; one specimen on Acer saccharum (Laliberté 1965) . In Nova Scotia one specimen was captured in a flight­intercept trap in a 45 year­old stand of Picea rubens . In Québec, found on twigs and shoots of Quercus rubra and Tilia americana L. (D. Pollock, unpublished data).