While making an “auto” trip around the Gaspé Peninsula (Province of Quebec) in the summer of 1928. I encountered a swarm of dark-winged insects which I at first took to be may flies “dancing” over a bridge across a river to the west of Chandler—a town on the south shore, well out toward the eastern end of the Gaspé Peninsula. Stopping the car, I descended to inalte a few “investigational” sweepings with my net, and to my utter amazement discovered that I had captured a net full of males of the rare and much-sought (because of its primitiveness) “cranefly” Pratoplasa fitchii, O.S., a member of the superfamily Psychodoidea.