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To His Honour Walter Cameron Nichol,\nLieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia.\nMay it please Your Honour :\nThe  undersigned  respectfully  submits  herewith  the  Annual  Keport  of  the\nProvincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1921.\nj. d. Maclean,\nProvincial Secretary.\nProvincial Secretary's Office,\nVictoria, February, 1922. \u2022\nProvincial Museum of Natural History,\nVictoria, B.C., February 1st, 1922.\nThe Honourable J. D. MacLean, M.D.,\nProvincial Secretary, Victoria, B.C.\nSir,\u2014I have the honour, as Director of the Provincial Museum of Natural\nHistory, to lay before you the Report for the year ending December 31st, 1921,\ncovering the activities of the Museum.\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\nFRANCIS KERMODE,\nDirector. TABLE OF CONTENTS.\nPage.\nObjects     7\nAdmission     7\nVisitors  7\nActivities  7\nLoan Collection of Lepidoptera   8\nMammals  8\nList of Chipmunks in the Province of British Columbia   8\nA Bemarkable Case of External Hind Limbs in a Humpback Whale  9\nOrnithology     11\nNotes on the Occurrence of the White-winged Dove (Melopelia asiatiea)  11\nAccessions     11\nBotany \u2022  13\nEntomology  17\nThe Pterophoridse of British Columbia  34  REPORT of the\nPROVINCIAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY\nFOR THE YEAR 1921.\nBy Francis Kermode, Dibectob.\nOBJECTS.\n(ft.) To secure and preserve specimens illustrating the natural history of the Province.\n(6.) TO collect anthropological material relating to the aboriginal races of the Province.\n(c.)  To obtain  information  respecting the  natural sciences,  relating  particularly  to  the\nnatural history of the Province, and diffuse knowledge regarding the same.\nADMISSION.\nThe Provincial Museum is open, free, to the public daily throughout the year from 9 a.m. to\n5 p.m.  (except New Year's Day, Good Friday, and Christmas Day) ;   it is also open on Sunday\nafternoons from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. from May 1st until the end of October.\nVISITORS.\nThe actual number of visitors whose names are recorded on the register of the Museum\nis 22,550. This.does not include Mr. and Mrs. and very often several members of a family;\nteachers and their classes whose attendance has increased materially during the last year in\nconnection with their nature-studies; and it must be understood that these figures do not\ninclude Asiatics and others. The following figures \"will give some idea of those who recorded\ntheir names during the months of: January, 1,245 ; February, 1,567; March, 1,413; April, 1,221;\nMay, 1,604; June, 1,876; July, 4,022 ; August, 4,614; September, 2,061; October, 1,347 ; November,\n864;   December, 716.\nACTIVITIES.\nThe Public Works Department, having completed the excavation of the basement of the,\nMuseum, carried on the work so as to put this portion of the building into shape for exhibition-\nrooms for anthropology. The floors have been cemented throughout, the walls all plastered,\nand windows had to be put in through the basement walls so as to give light and air. The\nPublic Works Department also carried on its extensive work in regard to renewing the electric-\nlight system and have it divided into sections, so that it is only necessary to use portions of\nthe lighting system at times, thus practising economy to a great extent.\nSince the Public Works Department has finished the alterations, the Director Is now iu a\nposition to carry out the long-needed want of arranging the valuable anthropological material\nwhich has been stored for a number of years. This material has been transferred from the\ntemporary building to the basement of the Museum, and is now practically safe from all danger\nof fire. All the anthropological exhibition which is now on the first floor of the Museum will\nbe transferred to the basement, so as to arrange all the exhibition of this material according\nto the different tribes of Indians of this Province. The arrangement will be similar to that which\nwas carried out in the exhibition on the first floor; that is, according to house and house furniture,\nimplements of war and the chase, etc.\nA carpenter has been employed for several months making cases for this material; the staff\nis now busily engaged in arranging the collection for exhibition, and it is hoped to have the\nexhibition halls of anthropology open to the public not later than May 1st.\nThe study series of mammals and birds, which were also stored in a temporary building,\nhave now been removed to the study-room on the main floor of the Museum and are available\nto those visitors who wish to consult them.\nA List of \" The Flora of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands \" has been issued from the\npress and is now available to those students who are interested in botany, and no doubt will be\nquite a help in giving the distribution of the flora of Vancouver Island. We know that this list\nis to a great extent not complete, and hope that it will be the means whereby students will aid\nthe Provincial collections by gathering material that is not represented in the collections from some of the most outlying portions of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands. In this way we\nwill be able to get a more definite distribution of our Coast flora. Persons requiring the list are\nrequested to make application to the Provincial Museum for the same. Additions and corrections\nto \" The Flora of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands \" will be published from time to time\nin the Annual Beports of the Provincial Museum.\nLOAN COLLECTION OF LEPIDOPTEBA.\nMr. Frank Williamson in July, 1921, loaned to the Provincial Museum a wonderful collection\nof tropical Lepidoptera. These represented specimens from India, Australia, Ceylon, South\nAmerica, Africa, Japan, Europe, and other countries. Mr. Williamson has been studying the\nLepidoptera of the world for a number of years with regard to the similarity of species and\ngeographic range, and this was the finest collection of butterflies and moths from different parts\nof the world that has ever been placed on exhibition in British Columbia. There were 196\nspecimens all beautifully mounted in Biker mounts, and it filled two large cases on the second\nfloor of the Museum.\nAlthough the Provincial Museum is a museum for the exhibition of the flora and fauna of\nBritish Columbia, when this collection was offered by Mr. Williamson as a loan, the Honourable\nDr. J. D. MacLean, Provincial Secretary, readily granted permission to have the same put on\nexhibition. They were admired by thousands of visitors, numbers of them making a special visit\nto the Museum to see this wonderful display. Others came and made drawings and paintings\nfor their own private collections. These specimens were returned to Mr. Williamson at the end\nof the calendar year.\nMAMMALS.\nMr. E. W. Nelson, Chief of the Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture,\nWashington, D.C, asked that the study series of the chipmunks in the Provincial Museum be\nloaned to their Department, as Mr. A. 11. Howell, a specialist, was working on this group.\nSeventy-eight skins from different districts on the Mainland of British Columbia were sent for\nstudy. The Department at Washington greatly appreciated the loan of these specimens, which\nproved of great service to Mr. Howell in his study of this group. Upon returning the specimens\nhe wrote his identification on the labels.\nThe following is a list of the species and subspecies determined by Mr. Howell's examination\nof these skins. It is very much in evidence that intergrading among the species and subspecies\nto a very pronounced extent is taking place throughout the geographic range, as the following\nclassification according to the species in the Province will show:\u2014\nEutamias toivnsendi Baclim. Type locality, mouth of Columbia \u25a0 River. Geographical\ndistribution, Coast region of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, from mouth of Columbia\nRiver northward, east in northern Cascades to head of Lake Chelan.\nEutamias amcenus felix Rhoads. Type locality, Mount Baker Bange, Westminster District,\nBritish Columbia. Geographical distribution, Mount Baker Bange, British Columbia; extent\nunknown.\nEutamias amrenus luteiventris Allen. Type locality, Chief Mountain Lake, Montana.\nGeographical distribution, Bocky Mountains in Montana from Helena northward into British\nAmerica.    Specimens examined:   Okanagan, B.C., 9;   Shuswap, B.C., 2;   Cranbrook, B.C., 2.\nEutamias amcenus afflnis Allen. Type locality, Asheroft, British Columbia. Geographical\ndistribution, Interior of British Columbia, east of the Cascade Mountains. Specimens examined:\nOkanagan, B.C., IS;  Grande Prairie, B.C., 2;   Similkameen, B.C., 9.\nEutamias amcenus ludibundus.    Specimens examined: Moose Lake, B.C., 4; Lillooet, B.C., S.\nEutamias amcenus afflnis x luteiventris.    Specimens examined:   Okanagan, B.C., 3.\nEutamias amcenus luteiventris x afflnis.    Specimens examined:   Okanagan, B.C., 6.\nEutamias ammnus afflnis x ludibundus.    Specimens examined:   Similkameen, B.C., 1.\nEutamias ammnus ludibundus x afflnis.    Specimens examined:  Lillooet, B.C., 1.\nEutamias minimus caniceps.    Specimens examined:   Atlin, B.C., 10.\nFive black skins from near the headwaters of the Stikine Biver, two of which have been\nprovisionally identified by Dr. C. Hart-Merriam as melanistic examples of Eutamias borealis\ncaniceps in 1909. The other three specimens were sent to the Museum in 1918 by Mr. H. W. Dodd,\nGovernment Agent at Telegraph Creek. These three chipmunks were taken by an Indian on\nGroundhog Mountain, who states that in this particular locality the chipmunks are all black and PLATE  I.\n*- *^\u00b1-. V* \u2022  -si,\nFig.   1.   Caudal part of the whale, showing the hind limb in situ.  12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 9\nquite plentiful. From this information it is. reasonable to think that upon further research a\nnew subspecies may be recognized. Much more material, however, and in better condition is\nwanted and very desirable. Dr. Merriam states they have in the collection at Washington one\nsimilar specimen from Lake Bennet.\nFrom time to time numerous reports have reached this Department of chipmunks having\nbeen seen in various localities on Vancouver Island, but upon close investigation we have been\nunable to substantiate any proof of their occurrence, and I very much doubt if chipmunks were\never native inhabitants of Vancouver Island, although some time about the year 1898 Mr. Albert\nH. Maynard, of Victoria, B.C., collected two chipmunks on the beach at Esquimalt. These skins,\nI understand from Mr. Maynard, were given to the late John Fannin, who was Director of this\nMuseum at that time, but I cannot find any record of these skins in this Department; presumably\nthey must have been sent to some authority for verification and not returned. Until such time\nas these skins can be located and their identity established, we cannot include them in the local\nfauna of Vancouver Island. It is possible that these two chipmunks which Mr. Maynard mentions\nmay have been two animals that had been in captivity and liberated.    (F. K.)\nWith further reference to the Notes on Mammals on page 10, Prov. Mus. Bep. 1920, \" Notes\non the Occurrence of a Humpbacked Whale having Hind Legs,\" a description of this was\npublished by Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews in the American Museum Novitates No. 9, and is\nherewith copied, giving further descriptions and conclusions in regard to this remarkable case\nof external hind limbs in a humpbacked whale.\nThis is printed with the object that through our Annual Report it may become known to\nlocal residents who may be interested in this extraordinary find at Kyuquot Station.\nIt appears to have made quite a stir with a number of scientists, and the Director is in\nreceipt of correspondence from Dr. Othenis Abel, Professor de Palaeontologie an der Wiener\nUniversitat, who has published several pamphlets oil whales and who wishes further information,\nif possible, concerning this remarkable find.\nA REMARKABLE CASE  OF EXTEBNAL HIND LIMBS IN A HUMPBACK WHALE.\nBy Roy Chapman Andrews.\nIn July, 1919, a female humpback whale (Megaptera nodosa) with two remarkable protrusions on the ventral side of the body, posteriorly, was captured by a ship operating from the\nwhaling-station at Kyuquot, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.\nOne of the protrusions was cut off by the crew of the vessel, but the other was photographed\nin situ by the superintendent of the station. Mr. Sidney Buck and Mr. Lawson, officials of the\nConsolidated Whaling Company, appreciated the importance of the discovery and presented the\nskeletal remains of the attachment to the Provincial Museum, Victoria, B.C.\nAt my request, Mr. Francis Kermode, Director of the Provincial Museum, very courteously\nsubmitted the bones to me with permission to publish upon the result of my examination.\nUnder date of March 4th, 1920, Mr. Buck writes to Mr. Kermode as follows:\u2014\n\" I enclose herewith three photographs showing the unusual development of the pelvic\nrudiments in a whale captured at the Kyuquot Station last July, of which you have the bones.\nIt is to be regretted that better pictures in evidence of this unprecedented development were\nnot obtained.\n\"I have been connected with the whaling industry for twenty-two years and during my\ntime have come in contact with prominent naturalists, such as Professor True, of the Smithsonian\nInstitute; Professor Lucas, of the Natural History Museum, Brooklyn;* and Professor Andrews,\nof the Natural History Museum, New York, and neither in their experience or mine have the\nprotrusion of the pelvic bones beyond the body ever been seen or heard of.\n\" This particular whale was a female humpback of the average length, with elementary legs\nprotruding from the body about 4 feet 2 inches, covered with blubber about % inch thick.\n\" As shown in the best photograph, these legs protruded on either side of the genital opening;\nthe left leg was cut off by the crew of the vessel and lost, and the point at which it was cut off\nis clearly shown in the photograph. The end of the leg seen in the picture terminated iu a kind\nof round knob like a man's clenched fist.\n\" The two bones of the leg which you have are connected by cartilage, which I was informed\nhad shrunk about 10 inches, and possibly more by this time.    At any rate, the total length of the\n' Then of the U.S. National Museum, now of the American Museum of Natural History. M  LO British Columbia. 1922\nleg before it was cleaned of the blubber and flesh was, as before stated, about 4 feet 2 inches\nfrom the body.\"\nAfter studying the material and discussing it with various scientists, I have come to the\nconclusion that the protrusions actually do represent vestigal hind limbs and show a remarkable\nreversion to the primitive quadripedal condition.\nI am well aware that zoologists are inclined to accept reported instances of reversion with\nextreme reluctance, and that at first sight the tendency will be to consider this a teratological\ncase of no reversionary significance, but the evidence is so strong that I cannot interpret it\nthat way.\nMr. Buck reports that the total length of the leg \" before it was cleaned of the blubber and\nflesh\" was about 4 feet 2 inches. The skeletal remains in my possession consist of two bones\nand two heavy cartilages.    When placed in position as in Fig. 2, the total length is 31 inches.\nFemur.\u2014The larger bone is deeply concave proximally and to it is attached a massive\ncartilage (Fig. 3) which in its present shrunken condition is 5% inches in length and 1% inches\nwide. I estimate that this cartilage was at least 15 inches long and 3 inches wide when fresh.\nI believe that this cartilage represents the femur. It probably lay entirely within the body, its\nproximal end being attached to the pelvic vestiges. Such a massive cartilage must necessarily\nhave had a firm support and leads me to believe that the pelvic elements in this individual\nwere of extraordinary size. The pelvic bones as usually present in the Megaptera are slender\nossifications about 6 or 8 inches in length and would not furnish a firm enough base for the\nattachment of a cartilage which in its fresh condition was as large as a man's wrist.\nSince the photograph of the limbs in situ shows that they were directly below the usual\nlocation of the pelvic vestiges, and since there are no other\" floating \" bones near this region,\nthe conclusion that they were attached to the pelvic elements is entirely justifiable.\nTibia.\u2014The larger of the two bones I identify as the tibia (Fig. 3). It is 14% inches in\ngreatest length, is well developed, and has a hard smooth outer surface. At the proximal end\nits greatest width is 3% inches, it narrows^gradually for three-fourths of its length, and then\nsuddenly expands at the distal extremity, where it is 2% inches wide.\nTarsus.\u2014The distal end of the tibia is convex and gives attachment to a cartilage which in\nits shrunken state is 4% inches long and 1% inches wide (Fig. 4). This cartilage, I believe,\nrepresents the tarsus. That it presents no ossifications is by no means surprising, as the carpal\nbones in the fore limbs of cetaceans are sometimes entirely absent and often in a more or less\nrudimentary condition. Mr. Buck says: \" The two bones of the leg which you have are connected by cartilage which-1 was informed had shrunk about 10 inches and possibly more by\nthis time.\"    This would give the tarsal cartilage a length of nearly 15 inches.\nMetatarsal.\u2014Tbe distal element in the leg is a hard, well-developed bone which I identify\nas a metatarsal (Fig. 4). It has the characteristic shape of the metacarpals in the fore limbs\nof cetaceans, except that it is more slender. It is 6% inches long, 1% inches wide proximally,\nand 1% inches in distal width; its least width is V\u00ab inch- To the distal end of the metatarsal\nis attached a heavy cartilage, of which only % inch remains intact. This cartilage probably\nformed the extremity of the limb skeleton.\nExternal Appearance of the Limb.\u2014In reference to the limb as it appeared in the fresh\ncondition, Mr. Buck says that the end terminated in a \" kind of round knob like a man's clenched\nfist,\" that the total length was about 4 feet 2 inches, and that it was covered with blubber about\ny2 inch thick. I infer from Mr. Buck's description that the connective tissue and blubber were\nessentially the same as in the flipper, or fore limb, of cetaceans. The photograph of the limb\nin situ (Fig. 1) shows that there are two prominent, truncated tuberosities on the distal half.\nThe proximal \" bunch \" evidently indicates the distal end of the tibia and the other is at the\nextremity of the metatarsal. These tuberosities may very properly be homologized with those\non the outer, or anterior, edge of the flipper in the Megaptera, -which indicate the extremities of\nthe radius and the second digit.   This is, I believe, a point which has considerable significance.\nSince the stalk-like cartilaginous femur probably lay entirely within the body and the\nremainder of the limb'entirely outside, there was undoubtedly a certain flexibility at the point\nof junction with the body.\nIn a paper entitled \" Untersuchungen an walen,\"* Professor W. Ktikenthal has described\nexternal rudimentary hind limbs in three early embryos of Megaptera.    These appear as two\n' Jenaische Zeitschrift fur Naturwissenchaft, LI, 1914, pages 49-52. PLATE II.\nFig. 2.  Skeleton of the bind limb.    Fig. 3,  Cartilaginous femur and osseous tibia.\nFig. 4.  Cartilaginous tarsus and osseous metatarsal.\n.  12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 11\nmore or less caudally directed papilla? on either side of the genital organ in the same relative\nposition as the hind limbs which I have described in this paper. In Kiikenthal's Stage I. (an\nembryo 32 mm. in length) the rudiments are best developed and are 1.2 mm. long. In Stage II.\n(an embryo 28 mm. long) the rudiments are somewhat less distinct, reaching a length of 0.8 mm.\nIn Stage III. (an embryo 30 mm. long) the hind-limb rudiments have still more decreased in\nsize and appear as minute papilla;.\nKiikenthal has also discovered hind-limb rudiments in -embryos of Phocmna communis and\nP. dalli, and Guldberg has recorded them in embryos of Lagenorhynchus acutus and Phocama\ncommunis.\nKiikenthal states that the hind-limb rudiments are found in later embryonic stages of the\nMystacoceti than in the Odontoceti, and concludes that in the evolution of cetaceans the hind\nlimbs lost their functional character in the Odontoceti earlier than in the Mystacoceti.\n' Since Kiikenthal's and Gluldberg's researches have shown that external hind-limb rudiments\nare still present in some cases in embryonic life, it is by no means impossible that these vestigial\norgans should continue their growth and persist until the adult stage. I believe that that is\nexactly what has occurred in the specimen which I have described above, and that we are\nconfronted with a clear case of partial reversion to a primitive quadripedal condition.\nThe limbs, according to the statements of the whalers, were symmetrical; they are in the\nexact position in which the hind-limb rudiments have been found in embryonic Megaptera; there\nare strong indications that the cartilaginous femur was attached to the pelvic elements; they\nare homologous in many respects to the flippers, or fore limbs, and were this a teratological\ncase it is doubtful if these homologies would exist.\nUnwilling as are many evolutionists to accept reported cases of reversion, I can see no\nother explanation for the facts presented here. That this condition is extremely rare must\ncertainly be true, for, so far as I am aware, this is the only recorded case among cetaceans.\nThe presence of rudimentary hind limbs would almost certainly attract the attention of whalers\nunder any condition and eventually be reported to a scientific institution, as was done in the\ncase under consideration. Although hundreds of thousands of whales have been killed, especially\nin the last fifty years since the beginning of shore-whaling, no other instance has been reported.\nWe are greatly indebted to Mr. Ruck and Mr. Lawson for their quick appreciation of the\nimportance of their discovery, and I wish again to express my thanks to Mr. Kermode for\ngiving me the privilege of describing it.\nORNITHOLOGY.\nWhile no field-work has been done by the Department in the branch of ornithology, several\npersons who are very much interested in bird-life of this Province have made presentations of\nspecimens to the Museum. One of the most rare specimens taken was presented by Mr. J. G.\nFrench, of Sooke, a white-winged dove (Melopelia asiatica), A.O.U. No. 319. This is the farthest\nnorthern record of this dove. The range of this bird in Lower California, Southern Arizona,\nTexas, Florida, south to Cuba, Jamaica, and Costa Rica. Accidental in Washington, one specimen\nbeing taken by Mr. J. H. Bowles, of Tacoma, November 7th, 1907. Concerning the specimen\ncollected by Mr. J. G. French at Sherringham Point, Renfrew District, Vancouver Island, in\nJuly, 191S, he informs me that there were two of the birds together on that occasion, and\nwithout doubt this is now the most northerly record for this accidental visitor.\nOther birds and specimens collected by several persons and presented to the Museum are\nherewith listed below.\nACCESSIONS.\nBlack Merlin (Falco columbarius suckleyi). Presented by Mr. W. Long, Mount Douglas,\nVictoria, B.C., January 18th, 1921.\nKilldeer Plover (A'Jgialitis vocifera). Two specimens presented by Mr. Arthur Trill,\nErrington, B.C., April 19th, 1921.\nNorth-western Bed-wing (Agelaius phosniceus caurinus). Presented by Mr. Arthur Trill,\nErrington, B.C., April 19th, 1921.\nNorth-western Red-wing (Agelaius phceniccus caurinus). Presented by Mr. H. Rawlings,\nParksville, B.C., April 19th, 1921.\nKilldeer Plover (\/Egialitis vocifera). Presented by Mr. H. Kawlings, Parksville, B.C.,\nApril 19th, 1921. -\nM 12 British Columbia. \u25a0    1922\nRed-backed Rufous Hummingbird (Sclasphorus rufus). Presented by Lizzie and John\nDool, Ladysmith, B.C., April 22nd, 1921.\nBonaparte's Gull (Lams Philadelphia). Two specimens presented by Miss Doreen Dodd,\nTelegraph Creek, B.C., June Sth, 1921.\nBlack-headed Grosbeak (Zamelodia melanocephala). Presented by Mr. H. Bawlings,\nParksville, B.C., June 18th, 1921.\nBlack-headed Grosbeak (Zamelodia melanocephala). Presented by Mr. Arthur Trill,\nErrington, B.C., June 20th, 1921.\nCooper's Hawk (Accipitcr coopc.rii). Two specimens presented by Mr. B. Gidley, Victoria,\nB.C., July Sth, 1921.\nWestern Robin (albino) (Merula migratoria propinqua). Presented by Mr. G. H. Cavin,\nCedar, B.C., November 11th, 1921.\nSnowy Owl (Nyctea nyctea) killed at Victoria, B.C. Two specimens presented by Provincial\nPolice Department.\nWhite-winged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptera). Presented by Mr. Dennis Ashby, Duncan,\nB.C., January 6th, 1922.\nLumpfish (Eumicrotremus orbis). Presented by Mr. Theodore Sebring, Victoria, B.C., April\n1st, 1921.\nBroad-finned Cod (Zaniolepls latipinnis) caught near Crofton, B.C. Presented by Mr. H. F.\nPrevost, Duncan, B.C., June 20th, 1921.\nCrab (Phyllolithodes papillosus). Presented by Mr. A. McMurtrle, Ladysmith, B.C.,\nSeptember, 1921.\nChitou (Cryptochiton Stelleri). Presented by Mr. John Ead, Fanny Bay, B.C., October\n3rd, 1921.\nBlue-tailed Lizard (Eumeces skiltonianus) found at North Shore, Kootenay Lake, September,\n1921.    Presented by Master J. G. H. Dicken Spurway.\nBlue-tailed Lizard (Eumeces skiltonianus) found at Edgewood, B.C. Presented by Mr. C.\nP. Coates, October, 1921.\nIndian arrow-points presented by Mr. O. H. Brown, Victoria, B.C.\nIndian spear-point and chisel presented by Mr. Joseph Tracey, Gordon Head, B.C.\nFossil shell presented by Mr. Nelson Smith, Nanaimo, B.C., August 1st, 1921.\nFossil shells and leaf presented by Mr. Pete Pasqual, Nanaimo, B.C., February 28th, 1921.\n\u25a0 Black Bear skull found at Narnu, B.C.   Presented by Mr. W. A. Newcombe,  September,\n1021.\nMarten-skin presented by Mr. J. W. Cockle, Kaslo, B.C., April 7th, 1921.\nBlack Squirrel skin presented by Mr. Carl Wihksne, South Fork, Bridge River, Lilloet, B.C.,\nJune 10th, 1921.    This mammal is a melanistic form of the Bed Squirrel  (Sciurus liudsonicus).\nBlack-tailed Deer (albino) (Odocoileus columbianus columbianus) killed at Chilliwack by\nE. S. Thornton, November 10th, 1921.\nCollection of Sciurus, Evolomys, and Peromyscus, collected at Bella Coola and presented by\nMr. Harlan Smith, July 30th, 1921.\nEntomological collection presented by Mr. Bryant, Ladysmith, B.C.\nCollections of plants presented by several persons, of which further mention is made in\nthe Botanical section.\nPublications of other Institutions.\n(Alphabetically arranged.)\nArt Institute of Chicago, Illinois    1\nArt, Historical and Scientific Journal, Vancouver, B.C  1\nArchaeological Society of Ontario, Toronto, Ont  1\nBernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii   12\nBoston Society of Natural History, Boston, Mass  1\nBristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, England    1\nBrooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N.Y  1\nCalifornia Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cal  13\nCalifornia University, Berkeley, Cal    6\nCarried forward ....'.     37 12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 13\nPublications of other Institutions\u2014Continued.\nBrought forward   37\nCardiff Museum, Cardiff, Wales   1\nCarnegie Museum. Pittsburgh, Pa  2\nCharleston Museum, Charleston, S.C  2\nChildren's Museum of Boston, Boston, Mass  1\nCity Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo  5\nColorado Museum of Natural History, Denver, Col  1\nCornell University, Ithaca, N.Y  6\nDominion Government Publications, Ottawa  51\nDetroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Mich  7\nField Museum, Chicago, 111  1\nGray Herbarium, Harvard University   5\nIllinois State Natural History Survey, Urbana, 111  5\nInstituto General y Tecnico de Valencia, Valencia, Spain  1\nJohn Crerar Library, Chicago, 111  1\nLibrary of Congress, Washington, D.C  2\nManchester Museum, Manchester, England  1\nMinneapolis Institute of Arts, Minn  8\nMinnesota University,  Minn  4\nMuseum American Indian Heye Foundation  1\nMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass  4\nNational Museum, Philadelphia, Pa  1\nNewark Museum Association, Newark, N.J  3\nNebraska University,. Lincoln, Neb  2\nNew York Botanical Garden, N.Y  2\nOhio Agricultural Experimental Station, Wooster, Ohio ,  6\nOklahoma University, Norman, Okla  1\nPeabody Museum, Salem, Mass  1\nPeabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Conn  22\nPennsylvania Museum and University   7\nPhiladelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Pa  2\nBoger Williams Park Museum, Providence, R.I  7\nRoyal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland  1\nSmithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C  32\nStaten Island Institute, New Brighton, N.Y  3\nSydney Museum, Australia    9   .\nUnited States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C  0\nUniversity of Washington, Seattle, Wash  4\nWagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, Pa  2\nZoological Society, New York, N.Y  2\nZoological Society, Philadelphia, Pa  1\n260\nBOTANY.\nBy W. R. Carter.\nConsiderable activity has been prevalent among collectors in several portions of the Province,\nand from these sources much desirable material has been added to the collection in the Herbarium\nof the Provincial Museum.\nOur gratitude must be extended to the following gentlemen for their kindness in contributing\na large amount of material which not only has added to the collection, but has increased\nour knowledge of the distribution of a number of plants, or, in other words, their known range\nhas been extended : Dr. C. F. Newcombe ; Mr. W. B. Anderson ; Mr. W. A. Newcombe ; Professor\nJ. K. Henry; Mr. T. P. Mackenzie and Mr. G. V. Copley, of the Grazing Commission; Mr. J. K.\nAnderson; Mr. A. B. Sherwood; Mr. Dennis Ashby; and Dr. M. O. Malte.\nMr. E. B. Webster, of Port Angeles, Washington, very kindly donated specimens of Senecio\nWcbsteri n. sp., a rare plant which.he collected on the talus-slopes of Mount Angeles, Clallam M 14 British Columbia. 1922\nCounty, Washington. These specimens are very desirable, as there is a possibility that this and\nsome of the other plants at present only known to the Olympic Range may eventually be found\non some of the higher mountains on the west coast of Vancouver Island.\nMr.  George Fraser,  of  Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, presented a number of specimens of\nhybridization, chiefly among Rubus, upon which he has been working since 1912, in order to\nfind out if he could throw any light on the parentage of the loganberry.    He is to be congratulated\nfor his marked strides of success in producing many interesting variations between well-known\ncultivated varieties  and our native species,  which should prove  of much  scientific value  to\nhorticulturists ; the following list represents the results of his research:\u2014\nEnglish raspberry x Rubus nutkanus.\nRubus nutkanus x English raspberry.\nEnglish raspberry x Rubus spectabilis.\nEnglish raspberry x Rubus leucodermis.\nRubus macropetalus x English raspberry.\nRubus macropetalus x Mongrel raspberry, the result of crossing Rubus spectabilis with\nraspberry.\nRubus macropetalus x Erie blackberry  (Rubus canadensis).\nRubus macropetalus x Lucretia dewberry (Rubus villirus var.).\nRubus macropetalus x Loganberry.\nUpright seedling from Rubus macropetalus x Loganberry.\nLoganberry x English raspberry (infertile).\nLoganberry x Rubus nutkanus (fertile).\nLoganberry x Rubus nutkanus (infertile).\nLoganberry x Rubus spectabilis (fertile).\nLoganberry x Rubus laciniatus  (infertile).\nIn the above list Mr. Fraser states the first named is the seed parent.\nAnother  consignment  of hybridization  received from  Mr.  Eraser   included the  following\nplants:\u2014\nRubus parviflorus x It  odoratus.\nFruit and foliage of Rubus ursinus x Loganberry.\nFruit of Pyrus diversifolia x cultivated variety of P. mains.\nMyosotis laxa x Myosotis palustris semperflorens.\nLonicera Perclymeum x Lonicera ciliosa (fertile).\nKnight's hybrid ribcs.\nCampanula rotundifolia var.\nAster?\nMr. Fraser states the following plants, of which he also very kindly donated specimens,\nwith the exception of  Vaecinium maerocarpum Ait.,  have established themselves  by  seeding\nunassisted on ground which has been cleared and burned but never has been cultivated:\u2014\nRhododendron ponticum. Erica vagans.\nCaliuna vulgaris. Erica vagans var. alba.\nCalluna vulgaris alporti. Spirwa Bumalda.\nCaliuna vulgaris alba. Pemethya mucronata.\nDabbecia polifolia. Vaecinium maerocarpum.\nDaboecia polifolia alba.\nIt   will   be  interesting   to  note whether any of these plants later become distributed and\nestablished throughout the Ucluelet District.\nThere has been an increase in the number of visitors seeking information about our native\nflora, and a large increase over previous years in the quantity of plants sent in for identification,\nMr. T. P. Mackenzie and Mr. G. V. Copley, of the Grazing Commission, sending in approximately\n300 specimens, many of them plants from the dry interior of the Province, and wherever possible\nduplicate specimens have been donated for the Herbarium collection.\nAmong these plants, the following are of special interest:\u2014\nAgropyron dasystachyum  (Hook.)   Scribn. Panicum capillare L.\nBromus Ported (Coult.) Nash. Poa brachyglossa Piper.\nDanthonia intermedia Vasey. Poa nervosa (Hook.) Vasey.\nElymus dasysiachys Trin. Poa Sandbergii Vasey. 12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 15\nSporobolus asperifolius Thurber. Monolepis Nuttalliana (Schultes)  Engelm.\nStipa comata Trin. & Bupr. Salicornia europoea L.\nCarex? atraia L. var. ocata Boot. Suwda depressa (Pursh.)  Wats.\nCarex sychnocephala Carey. . Amaranlhus paniculatus L.\nJuncus Mertensianus Bong. Silene Douglasii Hook. var. multicaulis Bob.\nLunula spicata (L.) DC. Sisymbrium, canescens Nutt.\nEriogonum niveum Dougl. Asclepias speciosa Torr.\nPolygonum acre leptostachyum Meisn. Mertensia paniculata Don.\nPolygonum Douglasii Greene var. montanum       Salvia pratensis L.\nSmall. Ghmiactis Douglasii II. & A.\nAtriplex argentea Nutt. Iva xanthiifolia Nutt.\nChenopodium leptophyllum Nutt.\nMr. W. B. Anderson, as is his usual custom, brought in a number of plants collected over a\nlarge portion of the Province, including Prince Bupert, Anahim, and Fort George in the north,\nthe Columbia River Valley in the east, Southern Okanagan to the south, Chilliwack and Lytton\nto the west, besides a small series from Vancouver Island.\nSpecimens mounted and placed in the collection include:\u2014\nSisyrinchium Macounii Bickn. Stimulus pcduneularis Dougl.\nUrtica urens L. Pentstemon Riehardsonii Dougl.\nSilene Douglasii Hook. var. Macounii Bob. Cynoglossum? grande Dougl.\nArabis? Macounii, S. Wats. Antennaria? apriea Greene.\nSisymbrium linifolium Nutt.       \u2022 Anthemis tinctoria L.\nThely podium laciniatum Endl. Crcpis oecidentalis Nutt.\nSaxlfraga nivalis L. Gnaphalium Macounii Greene.\nAstragalus Purshii Dougl. Heliauthus Nuttallii T. & G.\nGeranium Robcrtianum L. .\nBesides these, there are a number of Compositse as yet undetermined.\nThe following additions to the Herbarium are also recorded:\u2014\nAristida purpurea Nutt; Hemicarpha aristulala (Coville) Smyth. Presented by Dr. M.\nO. Malte.\nOrthocarpus purpurascens Benth.    Presented by Dr. C. F. Newcombe.\nPhyllospadix Scouleri Hook.; Catcile edulenta Hook. Presented by Mr. AV. A. Newcombe.\nCollected on the west coast of Calvert Island, extending their previously known range.\nPortulaca oleracea L. Presented by Mr. A. R. Sherwood. This plant appears to be spreading in the vicinity of Victoria and may become a troublesome weed.\nAn Epipactes as yet unidentified, presented by Mr. W. Burton.\nIris (introduced), not yet identified; Lupinus mieranthus Dougl., a pink flowering form;\nPlantago lanceolata L., an uncommon form.   Presented by Professor J. K. Henry.\nPoa bulbosa L.; Euphorbia glyptospcrma Engelm.; Zizia cordifolia (Walt.) DC. Presented\nby Mr. W. B. Carter.\nAllium sp. Moly L. This Allium with its handsome yellow flowers aud strong scent has\nescaped from cultivation and is now spreading and growing in a wild state in portions of the\nCowichan District.    Presented by Mr. Dennis Ashby.\nThe following are additions to our Canadian and Provincial flora :\u2014\nCaphalanthera oregana Reich. A single specimen collected and retained by Mr. B. Glendenning at Agassiz, July, 1918, and identified by Professor C. V. Piper, of Washington, D.C.\nNew to Canada.\nHemicarpha aristulala (Coville) Smith. Collected at Cadboro Bay, V.I., July 7th, 1921, by\nDr. M. O. Malte.    New to Canada.\nSilene Douglasii Hook. var. Macounii Bob. Collected at Comox, V.I., by Mr. W. B. Anderson.\nNew to Vancouver Island.\nPoa bulbosa L. Collected Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C., May 17th, 1921, and identified\nby Mrs. Agnes Chase, Washington, D.C,\nEuphorbia glyptosperma Engelm. Fitzgerald, V.I., August 7th, 1921; ZAzia cordifolia\n(Walt.) DO, Fitzgerald, V.I., July 31st, 1921. Collected by Mr. W. B. Carter. New to Vancouver\nIsland. .\nM 16\nBritish Columbia.\n19i\nOther plants identified included a mounted series of over 100 species from South Park\nSchool. These specimens, while not of full herbarium size, were exceedingly well prepared and\nreflect great credit on those pupils and teachers responsible for the work. A large series of\nunmounted plants were identified for Happy Valley, Kingston Street, and other schools.\nAgain this past season Miss M. Lawson, of the Colonist staff, undertook, for the benefit of\nthe children, the task of editing a Flower Calendar in the Sunday edition of the Daily Colonist\nof plants collected by children from various schools and districts. A large number of plants\nwere identified weekly, and a marked improvement in the condition of specimens sent in was\nnoticeable over last year, especially among a few of those who were consistent in sending a\nseries in every week.\nMrs. Agnes Chase, Acting Systematic Agrostologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United\nStates Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C, very kindly examined and determined our\ncollection of grasses, which is now revised under present nomenclature. This revision has\nadded several species to the list of Vancouver Island flora.\nIn the latter part of the summer a \" Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of Vancouver and\nQueen Charlotte Islands \" was received from the hands of the printers, and copies have been\ndistributed to most of the scientific institutes and colleges in America and other countries, and\nup to the present time we have received numerous applications for copies from teachers and\nothers interested in botany, residing in many portions of this Province.\n\" The following list of plants are supplementary additions to \" The Flora of Vancouver and\nQueen Charlotte Islands, 1921 \" (introduced plants being printed in italics in conformity with\nthe printing of the Check-list) :\u2014\nLycopodium annotiiium L.    Mountains, V.I.\nPotamogeton amplifolius Tuckerm.    Henry's \"Flora of Southern British Columbia.\"\nAgrostis hyemalis var. geminata  (Trin.) Hitehc.    Mount Arrowsmith, V.I.\nAgrostis idahoensis Nash.    Victoria, Macoun.\nAgrostis palustris Hitehc.    Sidney, V.I.. Macoun.\nDanthonia Macounii Hitehc.    Macoun, No. 78823. Mount Benson, V.I.\nElymus arenarius compositus (Abromsit) St. John. Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, J. R.\nAnderson.\nGlyceria scabra Malte sp nov.    Macoun's List, 1918.\nPucinellia nutksensis (Presi.) Fern & Weath.    Sidney, V.I., Macoun.\nPucinellia nuttalliana  (Schult.)  Hitehc.    Nanaimo, V.I., Macoun.\nPoa bulbosa L.    Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, W. R. Carter.\nStipa minor (Vasey) Scribn.    Macoun's List, 1918.\nCarex sterilis cephalentha Bailey.    Port Benfrew, Rosendahl.\nJuncus columbianus Covilie.    Macoun's List, 1918.\nHemicarpha aristulata (Coville)  Smyth.    Cadboro Bay, V.I., Malte.\nPolygonum erectum L.    Macoun's List, 1918.\nChenopodium leptophyllum Nutt.    Macoun's List, 1918.\nSagina saginoides (L.) Brit.    Nanaimo, Flardy Bay, V.I.\nSilene Douglasii var. Macounii Rob.    Comox, V.I., W. B. Anderson.\nLepidium oxycarpum T. & G.    Cadboro Bay, V.I., Macoun.\nLathyrus nevadensis S. Wats.   Cowichan Lake,  V.I., J. B. Anderson.\nEuphorbia glyptosperma Engelm.    Fitzgerald, V.I., W. R. Carter.\nCallitriche palustris L.    Port Renfrew, V.I., Rosendahl.\nZizia cordata (Walt.) DC.    Fitzgerald, V.I,, W. R. Carter.\nPlagiobothrys tenellus Gray.    Generally distributed, southern end of Vancouver Island.\nCastilleja acuminata (Pursh.)  Spreng.    Port Renfrew, V.I., Rosendahl.\nOrthocarpus purpurascens Benth.    Mount Fiulayson, V.I., Dr. C. F. Newcombe.\nGalium cymosum Wiegand. Henderson Lake, N.I., W. A. Newcombe. Cowichan Lake, Thetis\nLake.\nCentaurea vo-chinensis Benin.    Victoria, V.I., J. R. Anderson.\nCotula australis Hook.   Nanaimo, V.I., Macoun.\nSolidago caurina Piper.   Prospect Lake, V.I., J. R. Anderson.\nSolidago lanceolata L.    Ucluelet, V.I., Macoun. 12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 17\nENTOMOLOGY.\nBy E. IT. Blackmore, F.E.S.\nCollecting during the past season has not been at all good, although, taken on the whole,\nit has been somewhat better than the three preceding years.\nWe had an exceedingly wet winter, which continued, with the exception of a few short dry\nspells, until late in the spring. Reports from various parts of the Province all speak of poor\ncollecting weather. However, a number of rare and uncommon species were obtained by\nvarious collectors, which will be noted under their respective localities.\nEarly in the year Mr. Theodore Bryant, of Ladysmith, offered to donate to the Provincial\nMuseum a large number of his duplicate Lepidoptera. Arrangements were made whereby the\nwriter was enabled to visit Mr. Bryant in the latter part of May and thereby enabled to select\nthe most desirable of the material offered. Iu addition, Mr. Bryant kindly loaned the writer\nIlls entire collection of Microlepidoptera to work over during the winter months. We are\nespecially glad to have the use of this collection, as it contains most of the identical specimens\nrecorded from Wellington in the 1906 Check-list of British Columbia Lepidoptera; as was\nmentioned in last year's Museum report, page 23, the large majority of species listed in this\ngroup were either from Mr. Cockle, of Kaslo (168), or Mr. Bryant, of Wellington (94). I hope\nto start work on this collection early in the New Year, as the greater number are simply pinned\nand need relaxing and mounting. Many of the species are erroneously named and many need\nverification.\nMr. A. W. Hanham, of Duncan, B.C., has also generously placed at my disposal a large\nnumber of unidentified specimens in this group.\nThe European satin-moth (Stilpnotis salicis Linn.) has spread rather rapidly and has been\nreported from several localities other than New Westminster, where it was first noticed. It\nwas found in Vancouver occupying an area several blocks square. Mr. L. E. Marmont, of\nMaillardville, reported a heavy infestation in his district, and it has also been found at\nCowichan Bay, on Vancouver Island. I have recently identified specimens of this species for\nMr. J. F. Clarke, who took them at Bellingham, Wash. It is to be regretted that it is spreading\nso rapidly, as it is likely to become a serious pest to our native poplars.\nBritish Columbia Insects new to Science.\nOwing to the strike in the printing trade in Eastern Canada early in the spring a number\nof entomological magazines were held up, with the result that even now many of them are from\ntwo to three months behind in their issues. Consequently, we can only list those species the\ndescriptions of which have appeared up to the time of writing this article (December 31st).\nAny species that may be described in the belated issues will be included in next year's\nProvincial Museum Report. Up to date there have been forty-five insects from British Columbia\ndescribed as new to science during the present year. They include eight species of Lepidoptera,\none species of Hymenoptera (parasitic), thirty-two species of Diptera, and four species of\nHemiptera.\nLepidoptera.\nOf the eight species of Lepidoptera, one belongs to the Lycaenidffi, one to the Noctuidaa, one\nto the Lymantriidse, four to the Pyralidse, and one to the Pterophoridse.    They are as follows:\u2014\nLycmnida?  (Theclinw).\nStrymon melinus race atrofasciata McDunnough. Described in the Can. Ent., Vol. 53, page\n47, Feb., 1921, from specimens taken at Wellington, B.C. (Taylor) ; Duncan, B.C. (Livingstone) ;\nRoyal Oak, B.C. (Treherne) ; and Victoria, B.C. (Cameron). The above race differs from\ntypical melinus in its deep steely-grey ground colour and the heavy black spotting on the underside. The lack of orange margin to spots alluded to in the description is not a constant character,\nas out of a long series in my own collection there are several which have the orange margins\nstrongly pronounced. Dr. McDunnough was of the opinion that this race was confined to\nVancouver Island, but I have specimens from many points on the Mainland which are typical\nof this new race, and it can safely be assumed that atrofasciata occurs throughout the whole of\nSouthern British Columbia.   It is double-brooded, occurring in May and again in July. .\n'\n'\nM 18\nBritish Columbia.\n1922\nNoctuidir.\nAnomogyna partita McDunnough. Described in the Can. Ent., Vol. 53, page 179, Aug., 1921,\nfrom five specimens. The type taken at Banff, Alta. (Wallis) ; two paratypes from Kaslo, B.C.\n(Cockle); and two paratypes from Nordegg, Alta.  (McDunnough).\nLymantriidcc.\nHemerocampa pscudotsugata McDunnough. Described in the Can. Ent., Vol. 53, page 53,\nMarch, 1921. This is the tussock-moth which I had previously determined (vide Rep. Prov.\nMus., 1918, page 12) as Hemerocampa vetusta gulosa Hy. Edw. It was originally discovered\nby Mr. W. B. Anderson at Chase, B.C., who found it doing considerable damage to Douglas\nfir. Upon the receipt of a number of egg-masses from Mr. Anderson in the spring of 1920,\nDr. McDunnough was enabled to breed it from the egg to the adult. From his observations\non the larval stages he came to the conclusion that the species was distinct and undescribed.\nPyralidw (Scopariinw).\nScoparia basalis race paciftcalis Dyar. Described in Ins. Ins: Mens., Vol. IX., page 66,\nApril-June, 1921, from four specimens taken at Victoria, B.C. (Blackmore) ; Mount Newton,\nnear Saanichton, B.C.  (Blackmore) ;   and Grayland, Wash.\nScoparia commortalis Dyar. Described in Ins. Ins. Mens., Vol. IX., page 67, April-June,\n1921, from three specimens taken by the writer at Victoria, B.C. This species is close to\nrectilinea Zeller, but is much browner and the paler areas more contrasting.\nPyralidw (Crambinw).\nCrambus tutillus McDunnough. Described in Can. Ent., Vol. 53, page 160, July, 1921, from\nsix specimens taken at Victoria, B.C. The type and four paratypes were taken by W. Downes;\nthe other paratype was taken by the writer, mention of which was accidentally omitted from the\noriginal description. A note on this species will be found under the heading of \" Illustrated\nLepidoptera,\" together with a figure of the paratype on Plate IV.\nPyralidw (Phycitinm).\nPyla blackmorella Dyar. Described Ins. Ins. Mens., page 6S, April-June, 1921, from two\nspecimens taken by the writer on Mount Tzouhalem, near Duncan, B.C., on June 24th, 1913.\nA figure of the paratype will be found on Plate IV. and further remarks on the species under\nthe heading of \" Illustrated Lepidoptera.\"\nPterophoridm.\nPlatyptilia alberta: B. & L. Described by Barnes and Lindsey in Cont. Lep. No. Amer.,\nVol. IV., No. 4, page 346, from four specimens. Holotype female, Laggan, Alta.; allotype male,\nMount Cheam, B.C. (R. V. Harvey) ; and two paratype females, Laggan, Alta., and Olympic\nMountains, Wash.\nHymenoptera  (Parasitic) .\nIchneumonidw.\nMyersia grandis Cushman. Described in Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. 23, page 110, May,\n1921, from one female taken June Sth by Dr. H. G. Dyar at Kaslo, B.C. This specimen was\nfound by Mr. Cushman among some undetermined Ichneumonidffi in the U.S. National Museum,\nand was probably taken by Dr. Dyar when he made his large collection of Lepidoptera at\nKaslo, B.C., in 1903.\nDlPTERA.\nMycetopMlida: (Fungus-gnats).\nIn the Proc. Brit. Col. Ent. Socy., Feb., 1920  (issued Nov., 1921),\nSherman described the following sixteen species of this family:\u2014\nMycoma mutabilis.    Savary Island, April.\nPlatyura intermedia.    Savary Island, July.\nDziedzickia vernalis.    Vancouver, May.\nDziedziclcia rutila.   Vancouver, November.\npage 16 et seq., Mr. R  S. 12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 19\nDziedziclcia johannseni.    Savary Island, April.\nDziedzickia columbiana.    Vancouver, May.\nDziedzickia occidentalls.    Savary Island, April.\nRhymosia prolixa.    Savary Island, July.\nRhymosia faceta.    Vancouver, February.\nRhymosia seminigra.    Vancouver;   Savary Island, March and October.\nRhymosia pectinate.    Savary Island, April.\nRhymosia brevicornis.    Vancouver, April.\nTetragoneura atra.    Vancouver, May and June.\nTetragoneura marceda.    Savary Island;   Vancouver, April and May.\nTetragoneura fallax.    Savary Island;   Vancouver, April, May, and December.\nTetragoneura arcuata.    Vancouver, May and June.\nMr. Sherman has made a special study of this family for a number of years and has greatly\nadded to our knowledge of the species occurring within the Province.\nThese small flies or fungus-gnats, as they are called, resemble mosquitoes or midges to a\ngreat degree, but can at once be distinguished by the antennae not being furnished with whorls\nof hair.\nThe abdomen of the male ends in a forceps-like process and in the female in a pointed\novipositor. The larvse feed in fungi and in decaying vegetation and are not injurious, except\nwhen they attack cultivated mushrooms.\nTabanidw (Horse-flies).\nIn a recent \" Revision of the Canadian species of the afflnis group of the genus Tabanus \"\nby Dr. J. McDunnough, Can. Ent., Vol. 53, page 13 et seq., he has recorded four new species,\nthree of which are described from material wholly or partly collected in British Columbia.\nTabanus trepidus McD. This species.occurs throughout the Dominion, the type lot containing\nspecimens taken in Ontario; New Brunswick; Nova Scotia; Quebec; Manitoba; and Peach-\nland, B.C.\nTabanus nudus McD. This species also has the same general range, specimens having been\ntaken in Ontario; New Brunswick; Manitoba ; Saskatchewan ; and Mount Lehman (Lower Fraser\nValley), B.C.\nTabanus atrobasis McD. The type material of this species is entirely confined to British\nColumbia, although Dr. McDunnough states that it extends south into Oregon. The holotype\nis from Mount Lehman, B.C. (S. Hadwen), and the paratypes are from Victoria, Royal Oak,\nDuncan, and Courtenay.\nBombyliidw (Bee-flies).\nCalopelta fallax Greene. Described in Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. 23, page 23, Jan., 1921,\nfrom five specimens. Holotype, allotype, and one female paratype from Colorado, and one male\nand one female paratype from Royal Oak, B.C., taken on May 19th, 1917, by R. C. Treherne.\nCalopelta is also a new genus erected by Mr. Greene for the reception of this new species; it\ndiffers from the genus Ploas, which it most nearly resembles, by having only two submarginal\ncells in the wing instead of three, a feature which was pointed out by Dr. McDunnough.\nSyrphidw (Flower-flies).\nSphccrophoria cranbroolcensis Curran. Described in Can. Ent., Vol. 53, page 173, Aug., 1921,\nfrom a single male specimen taken by Mr. C. Garrett at Cranbrook, B.C., on May 25th, 1919.\nHelomysidw.\nIn an article entitled \" Notes on Helomyzida; and Descriptions of New Species,\" which\nappeared in Ins. Ins. Mens., Vol. IX., page 119 et scq., July-Sept., 1921, Mr. C. B. D. Garrett\ndescribes eleven new species of this family, ten of which are from British Columbia. They are\nas follows:\u2014\u25a0\nLeria aldrichi.    Cranbrook, March.\nBarbastoma barbatus.    Sheep Creek, October.\nPostleria fuscolinea.    Cranbrook;   Michel, May-June-August.\nAmwbaleria scutellata.    Cranbrook, May.\nAmwbaleria gigas.    Cranbrook;  Michel, March to August. ; r\t\nM 20 British Columbia. 195\nMorpholeria mclaneura.    Cranbrook, April-May-October.\nPseudoleria pectinerata.    Cranbrook, June.\nGScothea canadensis.    Cranbrook ;   Michel, April-July.\nAcantholeria wdiemus.    Cranbrook ;   Michel, April-August.\nAcantholeria abnormalis.    Michel, July.\nA new scheme of classification for this family has been proposed by Mr.  Garrett, based\nchiefly on the length of the foremost fronto-orbital bristle, and six new genera have been erected,\nviz.: Barbastoma, Postleria, Amwbalaria, Morpholeria, Pseudoleria, and Acantholeria.\nThe species of this family are small dark-coloured flies looking something like dung-flies.\nThey are found in damp shady places and fly in the twilight. The larvae feed in fungi, decaying\nwood, and the dung of small animals, such as dogs, rabbits, and bats.\nHemiptera.\nThe following four species were described by Dr. H. M. Parshley in the Proc. Brit. Col. Ent.\nSoc, Feb., 1921, page 16 et seq.:\u2014\nTingidw. '\nAcalypta modesta. From three specimens taken at Boyal Oak, B.C., by B. C. Treherne on\nMay 14th, 1917.     '\nMiridw.\nDaceria formicina. This species was described from several specimens taken by Mr. W.\nDownes in the Saanich District, B.C., and at Shawnigan Lake, B.C., in July and August, 191S.\nSaldidw.\nSaldula comata. Holotype male and allotype female taken at Beaver Lake, Saanich District,\nB.C., by W. Downes, June 17th, 1919, and paratype female at Vernon, B.C. (Downes), September\n26th, 1918.\nSaldula nigrita. Described from specimens taken by Mr. Downes at Duncan, B.C., on\nSeptember 17th, 1919.\nLepidoptera not previously recorded erom British Columbia.\nThe following annotated list contains those species of Lepidoptera which have been taken\nduring the past two seasons and of which we have had no previous record. It does not include\nthe Microlepidoptera, which are treated of under a separate heading, neither does it include\nthe names of species recently determined as new to the Province, but which have stood as\nuniques in the cabinets of various collectors for a number of years. The numbers preceding\nthe names are the same as those contained in Barnes & McDunnough's Check-list of North\nAmerican Lepidoptera, 1917.\nNoctuida'..\n1226. Orosagrotis incognita Sm. Mount McLean, near Lillooet, B.C., August 21st, 1920\n(A. W. Hanham). Further remarks on this species will be found under the heading of\n\" Illustrated Lepidoptera.\"\n1250. Euxoa floramina Sm. A single specimen taken by A. W. Phair at Lillooet, B.C., on\nSeptember 5th, has been determined by Dr. A. W. Lindsey as agreeing with specimens of\nfloramina Sin. in the Barnes collection.\n1274. Euxoa rufula Sm. Mount McLean, B.C., August 22nd, 1920. (See \"Illustrated\nLepidoptera.\")\n12S8. Euxoa exculta Sm. A single specimen taken at Vavenby, B.C., by T. A. Moilliet on\nAugust 26th has been determined as this species by Dr. H. G. Dyar, who compared it with\nSmith's unique type. In Proc. U.S. N.M., Vol. XXIL, page 424, Smith gives \" North-west British\nColumbia \" as the locality for the single male from which the species was described. It is more\nlikely that \" North-west Territory \" was meant, as most of Smith's species described from this\ngeneral locality have turned out to be from Northern Alberta. I believe that this Vavenby\nspecimen is the first authentic record that we have of this species from British Columbia.\n1364a. Euxoa excellens race infelix Sm. Fort Steele, B.C., August 15th, 1921 (W. B.\nAnderson).    (See \"Illustrated Lepidoptera.\") 12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 21\n13SS. Rhizagrotis flavicollis Sm. Vavenby, B.C., August 26th, 1921 (T. A. Moilliet). This\nspecies is listed in the 1906 B.C. Check-list from AVellington and Kaslo, but all the specimens\nthat I have seen under this name (about fifty from a dozen different localities) have been\nEuxoa ridingsiana Grt. The two species are very much alike superficially, but flavicollis has a\nmore yellow costa and the collar is yellow also. I have the species from Nordegg, Alta., and\nthe Vavenby specimen agrees with these.\n15S4. Lumpra (Rhynchagrotis) nefascia Sm. Goldstream, B.C., September 6th, 1920 (E. H.\nBlackmore).    (See \"Illustrated Lepidoptera.\")\n1642. Anarta hampa Sm. A single specimen taken on Mount McLean at 7,500 feet altitude\nby A. W. Hanham on August 21st, 1920.\n2201a. Sympistis zetterstedti race labradoris Staud. Mount McLean, B.C., August 21st, 1921\n(A. W. Hanham).    (See \"Illustrated Lepidoptera.\")\n2275a. Trachea inordinata race montana Sm. Chilcotin, B.C., May 30th, 1920 (E. R.\nBuckell).    (See \"Illustrated Lepidoptera.\")\n2364. Twniosea discivaria Walk. Vavenby, B.C., July ISth, 1921 (T. A. Moilliet). (See\n\"Illustrated Lepidoptera.\")\n2470. Acronycta radcliffei Harv. Quamichan Lake, near Duncan, B'.O, June, 1921 (G. O.\nDay).    (See \"Illustrated Lepidoptera.\")\n2965. Tarachidia semiflavana Gue.    Taken by J. W. Wynne at Enderby, B.C.\n3222. Syngrapha aliicola Wlk. A single specimen taken on Mount McLean, B.C., by A. W.\nHanham on August 22nd, 1921. This was at one time believed to be a synonym of devergens\nHubner, but is now regarded as a distinct species.\n3509. Zanclognatha jacchusalis Wlk. Taken by T. A. Moilliet at Vavenby, B.C., on July\n18th, 1921.\nGeometridw.\n4009e. Hydriomena nubilofasciata race vulnerata Swett. Sluggett's, B.C., March 1st, 1921\n(W. Downes).    (See \"Illustrated Lepidoptera.\")\n4129. Nasusina leucata Hulst. A single specimen taken by A. W. Phair at Lillooet, B.C.,\non July 16th, 1920.\n4316-1. Drepanulatrix secundaria B. & McD. Kaslo, B.C., July, 1920 (J. W. Cockle). (See\n\" Illustrated Lepidoptera.\")\n4453. Dysmigia loricaria Evers. Vavenby, B.C., July 18th, 1921 (T. A. Moilliet). (See\n\"Illustrated Lepidoptera.\")\n4467. Caripeta angustiorata Wlk. Several specimens taken at Kaslo, B.C., by J. W. Cockle\nin 1920. This species is an inhabitant of the Atlantic States, but is recorded from Blairmore,\nAlta.\nRare and Uncommon Lepidoptera taken in British Columbia dtjring 1921.\nVictoria.\u2014Mr. Martin Brinkman took the following noctuids during the present season, all\nof which are new records for Victoria: Graptolitha torrida Sm.; Acronycta funeralis G. & R.;\nand Autographa speeiosa Ottol. They were all taken \" at rest\" on electric-light poles. He also\ntook a specimen of that rather rare geometer Gabriola dyari Tayl.\nMaster Lewis Clark, who has recently become an enthusiastic collector, captured a fine\nspecimen of Autographa octoscripta Grt. This is the first record of this species for Vancouver\nIsland. It is a very rare species in British Columbia, as only three specimens have been\nrecorded to my knowledge. He also bred from a pupa found in his father's garden a female\nspecimen of that very rare geometer Cleora excelsaria Streck. It emerged on June 22nd. It is\nfour years since I have had a record of this species, when I took a specimen at Goldstream on\nJune 4th, 1917.   A figure of this specimen was given in Rep. Prov. Mus., 1917, Plate II.\nMr. W. B. Anderson took specimens of Polia restora Sm. and Septis alia race rorulenta Sm.\nThe former species is apparently increasing, as it has been taken by several local collectors\nduring the past two or three years.    It was at one time comparatively rare in collections.\nMr. W. R. Carter, who has collected assiduously during the season, has captured several\nvery interesting species, amongst them being a nice series of Ipimorpha nanaimo Barnes. This\nspecies has been a comparative rarity for many years, but from certain conclusions reached last\nyear an exhaustive search of certain localities resulted in an increased number of specimens\nbeing taken this season.   As the specimens taken have always been in the vicinity of Lombardy M 22 British Columbia. 1922\npoplar, I am inclined to the belief that this is its food-plant. There are two distinct colour\nforms of this species, the predominating form being of an even light-buff colour and the other\nis of a light olivaceous shade. Mr. Carter also took a couple of specimens of Cerma cuerva\nBarnes, both \" at rest.\" This small noctuid seems to be of very retiring habits, as very few\nspecimens have been captured. I have only taken two in eleven years' collecting in this vicinity.\nIt was described from Victoria in 1907 (Can. Ent, Vol. 39, page 10), and with the exception of\na couple of specimens taken by Mr. Cockle at Kaslo, I have not seen it from any other locality.\nA figure of this species was given in the Rep. Prov. Mus., 1919, Plate II.\nShowing the extreme mildness of the Victoria winter climate, Mr. Carter took a freshly\nemerged specimen of Coniodes plumogeraria Hulst. on January 6th of this year. This is about\ntwo months earlier than it normally appears. A single specimen of Erannis vancouverensis\nHulst. was taken on December 7th. A nice series of the wingless females of both Paraptera\ndanbyi Hulst. and Rachela occidentalls Hulst. were taken \"by Mrs. Carter in the early part\nof December.\nGoldstream.\u2014The writer spent part of his vacation as well as a number of week-ends in\nthis locality. The collection of \" Micros \" was the principal object in view, but several interesting\nspecies of other families were also taken. The most desirable of them being Polia tacoma Streck.;\nthis is the first record from Goldstream, the other known localities being Duncan, Kaslo, and\nRossland ; Graptolitha ferrealis Grt., a perfect specimen \" at rest \" ; Euxoa obeliscoides Gue.;\nTrachea cinefacta Grt.; Alypia ridingsi Grt.; this was the first specimen that I have any record\nof since I took a solitary individual in the same locality in July, 1912. They have a habit of\nsettling on the railway-track in the hot sunshine of a July afternoon and slowly waving their\nwings up and down. They are extremely wary and very difficult to capture, as once they are\ndisturbed their flight is exceedingly rapid. Later, Mr. Carter while collecting at Fitzgerald,\nsome 12 miles north of Goldstream on a hillside about 700 feet elevation, saw a number of this\nspecies flying about a bed of Valerianella Congesta (sea-blush). He managed to net some twelve\nspecimens on three different dates. It is evident that it is a species that frequents higher\naltitudes and only occasionally comes down to the low levels, thus accounting for its apparent\nrarity. In the Geometridae the writer took a single specimen of Lobophora simsata Swett.; a\nsingle Spodolepsis substriataria race danbyi Hulst.; this is the first record from this district.\nIt apparently occurs sparingly throughout the whole of Southern British Columbia; a single\nspecimen of Entephria multivagata Hulst. in beautiful condition; Dysstroma ethela Tayl., a\nperfect specimen (see \"Illustrated Lepidoptera\") ; Eupithecia mutata Pears.; this rare species\nI have also figured on Plate IV.; and two fine male specimens of Sabulodes cervinaria Pack.;\nthese were taken \" at light\" about 11 p.m. on June 2nd and are the first of this species that\nI have captured.\nFitzgerald.\u2014Mr. Carter, who collected regularly every week-end in this locality, took many-\ndesirable species during the season, chief of which were a single Gortyna pallescens Sm. (new-\nlocality) ; Annaphila decia Grt.; this pretty little noctuid is rather uncommon in the southern\npart of the Island, though I believe it occurs a little more frequently at Duncan. Amongst the\ngeometers, Drepanulatrix rectifascia Hulst. and D. falcataria Pack, were the best captures.\nAlberni.\u2014Mr. John Redford collected a large number of specimens during the past season,\nthe most interesting of which are the following: Euxoa costata Grt. (uncommon); Agrotis\nesurialis Grt. (uncommon) ; A. oblata Morr.: Euretagrotis pcrattenta Grt.; this record extends\nthe known range of this species considerably, my previous records being from Vernon and\nChilliwack. It is rare in British Columbia collections. Trachea indocilis AValk.; Papaipema\ninsulidens Bird, one specimen taken \" at light.\" Previous to this specimen I have only seen\nthe species from Duncan, (Day). It is very uncommon, a few odd specimens being taken \"at\nlight\" occasionally; if its food-plant was known it could doubtless be obtained hi greater\nnumbers. It was described from Vancouver Island. Eosphorepteryx thyathroides Gue.; two\nspecimens of this very handsome and uncommon noctuid were taken \" at light.\"\nMr. W. R. J. Piggott, a new collector in this district, did considerable collecting \" at light\"\nin the late summer and early fall and obtained many good things, amongst them being Polia\nlubens race glaucopis Hamp.; Graptolitha dilatocula Sm.; Eumichtis versuta Sm.; Eremobia\nclaudens race albertina Hamp. (not common) ; Pyrrhia umbra race exprimens Walk, (very\nuncommon on Vancouver Island) ; Melipotis versabilis Harv. (rather rare on the Island) ;\nlanassa pallida Streck.; Tolype dayi Blackmore, a single male specimen. The distribution of\nthis species is greater than I at first supposed, as, in addition to the Vancouver Island localities, 12 Geo. 5\nProvincial Museum Report.\nM 23\nI have seen a specimen, taken by Mr. Cockle at Kaslo, and I have also found a rather poor male\namong some papered material taken by the late W. H. Danby at Kossland many years ago.\nMaillardville.\u2014Mr. L. E. Marmont, besides collecting a large number of \" Micros,\" took the\nfollowing desirable species : Feralia columbiana Sm.; Graptolitha thaxteri Grt., a very uncommon\nspecies; Trachea indocilis Wlk., a single specimen. This is a good capture as the species seems\nrather rare in British Columbia collections. The other recorded localities that I know of are\nDuncan (Day), Alberni (Redford), Kaslo (Cockle), Rossland (Danby), and Upper Columbia\nRiver (Dod). It may be more common than supposed, as it is probably confused in collections\nwith Trachea divesta Grt., which it very much resembles, especially if the specimens are somewhat worn. Autographa nichollw Hamp.; several specimens of this species were taken in May\nand again in September, thus indicating it to be double-brooded. There is no apparent difference\nbetween the two broods. It is also reported from Duncan (Day & Hanham) as having two\nbroods in the season. Euthyatira pudens Gn. (peach-blossom moth) ; a single specimen of\nthis handsome species was taken and a fine specimen of Drepana bilineata Pack, was bred\nex pupa.\nAmongst the Geometridte, Mr. Marmont captured a nice specimen of that rare species Cleora\nalbescens Hulst., and another specimen of Lygris harveyata Tayl. A short series of Mthaloptera\nanticaria race fumata B. & McD. was taken. The specimens taken by Mr. Marmot are considerably paler than those taken by Mr. Cockle at Kaslo, from which locality the species was described.\nA most peculiar incident of a butterfly being taken \" at light\" was related to me by Mr. Marmont.\nAt 11.30 p.m. on the night of August 6th, while out collecting noctuids, he noticed a peculiar-\nlooking moth (?) flying around an electric-light pole. Upon capturing it, it proved to be a\nspecimen of Phyeiodes mylitta Edw. This is the first instance I have heard of a butterfly being\ntaken in this manner.\nLillooet.\u2014Mr. A. W. Phair, who generally sends in some very desirable material, has not\ncollected as much as usual this season, the cares of an increasing business having prevented him\ngetting into the field as often as he has done in previous years. However, amongst the material\nsent in was a specimen of Acronycta mansucta Sm.; this is the first authentic specimen of this\nspecies that I have seen. It agrees perfectly with the description and figure (Proc. U.S.N.M.,\nVol. 21, page 100, and Plate XII., Fig. 7). Dyar in his \"Kootenai List\" records one specimen\nfrom Kaslo (Cockle), but a specimen sent to me by Mr. Cockle as this species is A. grisea race\nrevelleta Sm.; Acronycta strigulata Sm., a rather worn specimen. This species was figured in\nRep. Prov. Mus., 1920, Plate I.\nAmongst the geometers was a specimen of Dysstroma formosa Hulst., a rather rare species.\nI have seen one other specimen previously from the same locality and one from Vavenby.\nDuring the second week of August Messrs. Day and Hanham spent six days camping on Mount\nMcLean at an elevation of 5,C00 feet. Several trips were made to an altitude of 7,500 feet, at\nwhich elevation many alpine insects were taken. The most noteworthy of the diurnals were:\nEurymus nastes race streckeri Gr.; Ercbia vidlcri Elwes; Strymon saepium Bdv.; Heocles\ncupreus Edw.; and It. heteronea Bdv. A single specimen of Euxoa colata Grt. was taken. This\nis a most interesting record, as the species must be exceedingly rare. Dyar records one from\nSandon, B.C., and a specimen is recorded from Mount Cheam, B.C. Two specimens of Oncocnemis\nhayesi Grt. were captured; this is a new locality for this species, Kaslo being the only previous\nrecord. Curiously enough, a specimen of Autographa alta Ottol. was taken, to which the same\nremark applies.\nPrinceton.\u2014Mr. A. S. Thomson, who was with a surveying party in the mountains in this\ndistrict, managed to pick up a few specimens, which included Brenthis chariclea Schneid and\nEuphydryas anicia D. & H. among the diurnals; Diacrisia vagans Bdv. and Parasemia planta-\nginis form geometrica Grt. in the arctiids. The only noctuid taken was a rather rubbed specimen\nof Zale benesignata race largera Sm. The species was described by Smith (Proc. U.S.N.M.,\nVol. 35, page 257, 190S) from two specimens, a male from Winnipeg, Man., and a female from\nWellington, B.C. (G. W. Taylor). I have no record of any specimen of this species having been\ncaptured in the Province since the type was -taken until Mr. Thomson secured this specimen,\nwhich was kindly identified for me by Dr. J. McDunnough. A single geometer was taken,\nMacaria denticulata race sexpunctata Bates. This is rather an uncommon species; it has been\nrecorded from Chilcotin and Penticton.\nChilcotin.\u2014Mr. E. R. Buckell, who has been studying the grasshopper situation in this\ndistrict for the past two years under the direction of the Provincial Department of Agriculture, M 24 British Columbia. 1922\nmade a small collection of Lepidoptera which contained some very interesting species. The\nfollowing are worthy of special notice: Apantesis blakei race superba Stretch; a single, rather\nfaded Sehinia separata Grt.; this species was recorded for the first time in Rep. Prov. Mus.,\n1920, page 19, from Spenees Bridge, B.C. (Newcombe), as being new to the Province and a figure\nof it was given on Plate I. Euxoa quadridentata race flutea Sm.; this is a good record as it\nis a very rare species in the Province. Graptolitha petulca Grt.; this record extends the known\nrange of> this species, as it has hitherto only been recorded from the southern part of British\nColumbia (Vancouver Island to Kaslo); Septis barnesi Sm., a worn specimen; Oligia tensa\nGrt. (see \"Illustrated Lepidoptera\") ; Andropolia contacta Wlk., a rare species, only previously\nknown from Kaslo; and Euclidimera annexa Hy. Edw. Amongst the Geometrida? was a nice\nspecimen of Phasiane hebetata Hulst. (see \" Illustrated Lepidoptera\") ; Lygris atrifasciata\nHulst, an uncommon species which occurs very sparingly in various localities; and Platea\ntrilinearia Pack.; this exceedingly handsome geometer is more widely distributed than is\ngenerally supposed. For a number of years a single specimen taken by Mr. E. M. Skinner at\nKeremeos in May, 1S94, was the only known record for British Columbia. During the last three\nor four years specimens have been recorded from Lillooet (Phair), Penticton (W. B. Anderson),\nand now from Chilcotin.\nBarkerville.\u2014During the middle of August a short time was spent in this district by\nMr. Buckell, but owing to the extremely wet weather very few insects were taken; the most\ninteresting amongst the geometers being Itame brunneata Thun., one specimen in nice condition\nbeing taken. This is a very rare species in British Columbia. I have one other specimen taken\nby the late R. V. Harvey from Similkameen in July, 1906. In Rep. Can. Arct. Exped., Vol. III.,\nPt. 1, page 44, Gibson records one specimen from Burwash Creek, Yukon Territory, taken\nin August, 1914 (D. D. Cairns), rather darker in colour than the Eastern specimens. I have\nalso a single specimen from the Yukon-Alaska boundary taken by Theo. Bryant in 1908.\nThis specimen is also much darker in ground colour than the two British Columbia examples\nI have mentioned; Lygris destinata Moesch (not common) ; Eupithieia cretaceata Pack.; this\nspecies has a very wide range in the Province, from Victoria in the south to Atlin in the far\nnorth and across the Province to West Kootenay. I am not at all sure but what they embrace\none or two well-defined races;  and Xanthorhoz abrasaria race congregata Walk.\nMr. Buckell also collected a short series of CEneis beani Elwes on Mount Bowman (7,500\nfeet) on July 9th. This species has been taken on a number of mountain ranges in the Province\nand probably occurs on every mountain of over 7,000 feet altitude. Mount Bowman is a high\nlimestone ridge some 20 miles north-west of Clinton.\nEnderby.\u2014Mr. Downes has handed us a list of species identified by Dr. J. McDunnough which\nwere taken by Mr. J. Wynne in the vicinity of Enderby. They include several good records, the\nbest of them being Taraehe areli Streck.; this pretty little noctuid is extremely rare. I have\none specimen from Rossland (Danby) and it has been taken at Kaslo by Mr. Cockle. Syneda\nochracea Behr.; this is another somewhat rare species, odd specimens having been taken at\nVaseaux Lake (Treherne), Kaslo (Cockle), and Rossland (Danby). Amongst the geometers,\nTrichod'esia albovittata race tenuifasciata B. & McD. is the most interesting. It was described\n(Cont. Lep. No. Amer., Vol., 3, No. 4, page 225) from Spirit Lake, Idaho. It differs from typical\nalbovittata in having the white band of the primaries very much reduced in width. I have one\nspecimen from Rossland (Danby).\nVavenby.\u2014This locality is situated about 80 miles north of Kamloops in the valley of the\nUpper Thompson River. Mr. T. A. Moilliet and his son Ted, who is an enthusiastic collector,\nsent us a considerable quantity of material during the past season. As we had not previously\nreceived any material from this district, we were especially glad to get this, as it. has extended\nour knowledge of the range of many common species, as well as furnishing us with specimens\nof rare species of which we had no previous representatives, including several new to the\nProvince. Amongst the diurnals were specimens of Basilarchia arthemis race rubrofasciata\nB. & McD.; this species must be extremely isolated, as this makes only the third locality from\nwhich it has been recorded in eighteen years. The first was a single specimen taken by\nMr. Dashwood-Jones at Halcyon Hot Springs, Kootenay Lake, in 1903, and then no further\nspecimens were recorded until Mr. W. A. Newcombe took five in the Chilcotin District in 1915.\nIncisalia polias C. & W.; Lycwnopsis pseudargiolus form lucla Kirby, and form marginata Edw.;\nthese are the first specimens of these two forms that I have seen from this Province, although 12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 25\nI have two or three rather poor .specimens taken in the Yukon by Mr. T. Bryant which are\nreferable to the form lucia. In the Rep. Can. Arc. Exped., Vol. III., page 30, Mr. A. Gibson\nrefers to specimens taken by G. M. Dawson at Dease Lake, B.C., in 1887, which Dr. Fletcher\ndetermined as representing the forms lucia Kby., marginata Edw., and violacea Edw. Dease\nLake is situated some 60 miles north-east of Telegraph Creek.\nIn the Sphingidoe, Smerinthus jamaieensis f. norm geminatus Say. and Hwmorrhagia tliysbe\nform cimbiciformis Steph. were the best. Apantesis miehabo Grt. was the most desirable of\nthe arctiids, while in the Noctuida? the following are worthy of special mention:\u2014\nEuxoa plagigera Morr.; Scotogramma trifolii Rott, a single specimen which is the first\nI have seen of the typical form; it may occur at Kaslo, but I have not seen a specimen from\nthere. Anyway, it is quite rare, as is also the race albifusa Walk., which occurs on Vancouver\nIsland. A figure of the latter was given in Rep. Prov. Mus., 1916, Plate VII. Polia farnhami\nGrt; Bombyeia rectifascia Sm. (see \"Illustrated Lepidoptera\"); Agroperina morna Streck.;\nthis is another rare species; the only other one I have seen was collected by Mr. G. O. Day\nat Cowichan Bay. Andropolia wdon Grt.; Namangana prwacuta Sm.; and Autographa flagellum\nWalk.; this is rather an uncommon Autographa in British Columbia, as our previous records\nare from Agassiz and Kaslo. Amongst the geometers are Lobophora montanata race magno-\nliatoidata Dyar., previously taken at Kaslo (Cockle) and Rossland (Danby) ; Dysstroma formosa\nHulst.; Lygris dcstinata race schistacea Warr.; a single specimen taken on August 30th matches\nexactly a specimen from Kaslo (Cockle), which was identified by Dr. McDunnough some years\nago as this species. I have no other record of it. Isturgia truncataria Wlk.; Itame sulphurea\nPack.; \/. plumosata B. & McD.; Euchlwna astylusaria Wlk.; and one Eulype hastata race\nsubhastata Nolc.; this race is rather rare in British Columbia collections, although it is rather\nwidely distributed. We have specimens from Atlin, Prince Rupert, and Grouse Mountain, near\nVancouver.\nMr. W. B. Anderson, Dominion Inspector of Indian Orchards, who has collected in many\ndifferent localities during the season, reports that collecting on the whole was decidedly poor,\nalthough several good days were experienced, notably May 24th at Penticton and August loth\nat Fort Steele.    The following are the best of his captures:\u2014\nPowell River.\u2014Eriopygca perbrunnea Grt.; Autographa mappa G. & R.; and Diactinia\nsilaeeata race albolineata Pack.\nSeechelt.\u2014Several specimens of Epargyrcus tityrus'F&bv. were taken, but they were all badly\nworn as it was rather late for this species\u2014August 6th, to be exact. This species has previously\nbeen recorded from Vancouver and Savary Island (R. S. Sherman), where it appears about the\nlatter part of June.    A specimen of Selenia alcipheuria form ornata B. & McD. was also taken.\nPenticton.\u2014Smerinthus eerisyi opthalmicus form pallidulns Edw.; a single specimen of\nthis uncommon form was taken; Diacrisia pteridis (danbyi) race rubra Neum; Scotogramma\noregonica Grt.;   and Spodolepsis substriataria race danbyi Hulst.\nFort Steele.\u2014Euxoa satiens Sm.: a short series of this rare noctuid was taken in good\ncondition \" at light.\" In our local lists it is simply recorded from \"\u25a0 B.C.\" I have one specimen\nfrom Lillooet (Phair) which is referable to this species. Euxoa quadridentata race flutea Sm.;\nOncocnemis albifasciata Hamp.; this is also a rare species. A single specimen was taken some\nyears ago by Mr. Anderson at Chilcotin (see \"Illustrated Lepidoptera\"); and Zenophleps\nlignicolorata Pack.\nMlCBOLEPIDOPTERA.\nWe have continued our work in this group during the present season and have obtained a\nnumber of new records, including several new species. We have also extended our knowledge of\nthe known range of a number of species that have been previously recorded.\nCollections have been made at Victoria, Goldstream, Fitzgerald, Mount Tzouhalem, Maillardville, Mount McLean, Chilcotin, and Vavenby, which have resulted in the addition of much\ndesirable material.\nAs a result of this activity the writer has bean enabled to mount about 1,S00 of these small\nmoths during the past season, a great many of which have not previously been recorded.\nIn the Ann. Rep. Prov. Mus., 1920, pages 23 and 24, I gave a list of species taken in that\nyear which were additional to those recorded in the 1906 B.C. Check-list. I am appending a\nfurther additional list of species taken during the present year, together with a few taken in\n1920, the determinations of which were not to hand when the previous list was printed.    Some M 26 British Columbia. 1922\nof the species have been described since the 1906 Check-list was published;   the majority are,\nhowever, new records for the Province and a few are new to science.\nIt is well to state here that this season's captures in the Tineina are not included, as they\nhave not yet been worked up owing to the absence from Washington of Mr. August Busck, who\nis the foremost authority on this group in North America.\nThe numbers and arrangement are in accord with Messrs. Barnes & McDunnough's Checklist.    Those marked with a star have been described since the \" List\" was published.\nCollectors: W. B. Anderson, E. H. Blackmore, E. R. Buckell, AV. R. Carter, G. O. Day,\nA. W. Hanham, L. E. Marmont, and T. A. Moilliet, whose initials only are used in the following\nrecords.\nPyralidw (Pyraustinw).\n4994. Evergestis subterminalis B. & McD.    Mount McLean (G. O. D.) ;   Vavenby  (T. A. M.).\n4996. Evergestis simulatalis Grt.    Fort Steele (W. B. A.) ;   Mount McLean (G. O. D.).\nPyralidw (Scopariinw).\n,       * Scoparia\u25a0\u25a0 basalts paciflculis Dyar.    Victoria (E. H. B.) ;  Mount Newton  (E. H. B.).\n* Scoparia com\/mortalis Dyar.    Victoria (E. H. B.).\nPyralidw (Schmnobiinw).\n5311b. Schcenobius melinellus albicostellus Fern.    Alberni (J. Bedford).\nPyralidw (Crambinw).\n* Crambus tutillus McD.    A'ictoria (W. R. C.;  E. H. B.).\nPyralidw (Phycitina).\n5591. Ambesa Iwiella Grt.    Chilcotin (E. R. B.).\n5631. Salebria virgatella subcwsiella Clem.    Goldstream  (E. H. B.).\n* Pyla blackmorella Dyar.    Mount Tzouhalem (G. O. D.).\nPterophoridw.\n5S62. Platyptilia edwardsi Fish.    Aiount McLean (G. O. D.;  A. AAT. H.).\n58S1. Platyptilia pallidactyla Haw.    A'ictoria  (W. B. C.) ;   Goldstream  (E. H. B.).\nAlucita montana dcclivis Meyr.   Fort Fraser (W. B. A.).\n5899.  Oidwmatophorus cincraceus Fish.    Mount McLean   (G. O. D.) ;   Vavenby   (T. A.  M.).\n5907. Oidwmatophorus liomodaclylus AA'lk.    Mount McLean (G. O. D.; A. AAT. H.) ; Aravenby\n(T. A. M.).\nOidwmatophorus occidentalis Wlshm.    Fort Steele  (W. B. A.) ;   A'avenby,  (T. A. AL).\n* Oidwniatoplwrus corvus B. & L.    Goldstream (E. H. B.) ;   Maillardville (L. E. M.).\n5944. Stenoptilia mengeli Fern.    Aiount McLean (A. W. II.).\nGelechidw.\n6021. Metzncria lappella Linn.    A'ictoria (E. H. B.).\nOecophoridw.\n6486. Semioscopis aurorella Dyar.   Maillardville (L. E. M.).\n6488. Semioscopis inornata Wlshm.    A'ictoria (L. Clarke).\nAegeriidw.\n6758. Paranthrene perlucida Busck.    A'ictoria  (L. Clarke). ,\nEucosmidw.\n6770. Evetria colfaxiana Kearf.    Fitzgerald (AAr. R. C).\n6803. Exartema versicoloranum Clem.    Maillardville  (L. E. M.).\n6840. Argyroploce mengelana Fern.    A7avenby (T. A. M.).\n6S42. Argyroploce urticana Hub.    Maillardville (L. E. M.).\n6869. Argyroploce bipartitana Clem.   Maillardville (L. E. M.).\n6SS5. Eucosma argenteana AVlshm.    Chilcotin  (E. R. B.). 12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 27\n6894. Eucosma ridingsana Rob.    A'avenby  (T. A. M.).\n6948. Eucosma radicana Wlshm.    Victoria (AV. R. C.; E. H. B.).\n6964. Eucosma rectiplicana Wlshm.    A'ictoria (W. R. C).\n7013. Eucosma illotana AVlshm.    A'avenby (T. A. M.).\n7046. Eucosma medoistriata Wlshm.    Chilcotin (E. R. B.).\n7093. Eucosma tarandana Moesch.   Chilcotin (E. R. B.).\n7100. Eucosma montanana Wlshm.    Chilcotin  (E. R. B.).\n7144. Enarmonia pinicolana Zell.    Victoria (AV. B. O).\n7146. Enarmonia fasciolana Clem.    Goldstream (E. H. B.).\n7152. Enarmonia crispana Clem.    A'avenby (T. A. M.).\n71S2. Ancylis intermcdiana Kearf.    Fitzgerald (AV. R. C.) ;  Ladysmith (E. H. B.) ; Maillardville (L. E. M.).\n.   7193. Ancylis apicana Wlk.    Fitzgerald (AA'. R. C).\n7204. Ancylis kincaidiana Fern.    Maillardville (L. E. M.).\n7212. Laspeyresia vancouverana Kearf.    Fitzgerald  (AV. R. C.) ;   Goldstream  (E. H. B.),\n7223. Laspeyresia conversana AVlshm.    Fitzgerald (W. R. C.) ; Goldstream (E. H. B.).\n7225. Laspeyresia lunatana AA'lshm.    A'ictoria (E. H. B.).\n7228. Laspeyresia zana Kearf.    Aiount Tzouhalem (E. H. B.).\n7237. Laspeyresia trossnlana Wlshm.    A'ictoria (AV. R. O).\n7244. Laspeyresia americana Kearf.    Ladysmith  (E. H. B.).\n7247. Laspeyresia prosperana Kearf.    Goldstream (E. H. B.).\n7260. Hemimene sedatana Busck.    Mount Tzouhalem (E. H. B.).\nTortricidw.\n* Cacwcia dimorpliana B. & B.   'A'ictoria  (AV. R. C).\n7405. Tortricodes horariana AVlshm.    A'ictoria (W. R.C).\nPhaloniidw.\n7540. Hysterosia aurcoallrida Wlshm.    Chilcotin  (E. R. B.).\nGlyphipterygidw.\n7619. Choreutis balsamorrhizella Busck.    Chilcotin (E. B. B.).\nPlutcllidw.\n7638. Euceraiia securella AVlshm.    A'ictoria  (AV. R. C).\n7674. Plutella vanella Wlshm.    Victoria (E. H. B.).\nIncurvariidw.\n842S. Incurvaria oregonella Wlshm.   Fitzgerald (AV. R. C.) ;  Chilcotin (E. R. B.) ;  Cheak-\namus (AV. B. A.).\nHepialidw.\n8483. Sthcnopis purpurasccns Peck.    Vavenby (T. A. M.).\nAmong those species which have been previously listed, the following, with notes thereon,\nmay prove of interest:\u2014\n5087. Perispasta cwculaiis Zell. Two specimens of this rather uncommon pyraustid were\ntaken by Mr. W. R. Carter at Fitzgerald on June 12th and July 3rd respectively, and a single\nspecimen was taken by Mr. W. B. Anderson at Chase on June 18th.\n5093. Phylctwnia itysalis Walk. This species has a much wider distribution in British\nColumbia than was at one time supposed. A short series was taken on Mount McLean (A. W. H.)\nat an altitude of 5,000 feet and a few specimens were taken at Vavenby (T. A. M.). It has been\ntaken at Kaslo (J. AV. C.) and we have specimens taken at Atlin <E. M. Anderson).\n5143. Pyrausta semirubralis Pack. A long series of this pretty ruby and fawn coloured\nspecies was taken by Mr. W. R. Carter at Fitzgerald on various dates in June. It occurs at\nmany points on Arancouver Island and has been recorded from A'ancouver (R. A'. Harvey), but we\ndo not possess any records of its occurrence in the Interior.\n5361. Crambus liortuettus Hubn. Previous to this season we have only had odd specimens\nof this species\u2014A'ictoria (E. H. B.) ;  A'ancouver (R. A'. Harvey) ;  Lillooet (A. W. Phair)\u2014but M 28 British Columbia. 1922\non June 15th Mr. W. R. Carter took a long series in good condition on Gonzales Hill. The\nmajority were of the dark form (vachellellus Kearf.), but two or three were as light as Zeller's\ntopiarius. It seems to me that vachellellus and topiarius should be regarded as \" forms \" and\nnot \" races,\" as the dark, light, and typical forms all occur together.\n5369. Crambus plumbiflmbriellus Dyar. This species was described from sixteen specimens\ntaken by Dyar at Kaslo in 1903. AVe have had no other record of it until Air. Buckell took a\nsingle specimen at Chilcotin on July 15th, 1920. During the present season two specimens were\ntaken at West Summerland by Mr. J. W. Richmond on June 20th, and a single specimen was\ntaken by Mr. D. E. Marmont at Fraser Mills on July 27th. The latter is rather an unexpected\nlocality for this species.\n5583. Promylea lunigerella Rag. This is apparently a rather rare species. One specimen\nwas taken by the writer at A'ictoria on July 17th, 1917; another specimen on Mount Newton,\nAugust 1st, 1920; and I took a third specimen on August 22nd of this year. I have not seen\nany others.    It was described from \" Vancouver Island \" by Ragonot in 18S7.\n* Carcina quercana Fab. In last, year's Report, page 31, this species was recorded by the\nwriter as being new to North America. Meyrick (Handb. Brit. Lep., 1905) gives apple as one\nof its food-plants, and a sharp look-out was kept on the apple-trees in my garden for both larvaa\nand pupa?, but none was found. On July 15th, about 8 p.m., I noticed a newly emerged adult\nresting on the leaf of a large spreading shrub which is trained up the front of the house. An\nextended search for further specimens resulted in finding several pupa spun up on the leaves\nof this shrub which turned out to be Cotoneaster pyraeantha Linn., commonly known as fire-\nthorn or Christ's-thorn. (Upon investigation I found that this particular shrub was purchased\nfrom a local nurseryman and planted in the garden about seventeen years ago). A further\nsearch was made the next evening and altogether some twenty pup;e were obtained. Meyrick\n(ibid., page 613) states that the pupae spin a flat web beneath the leaves; I found that they\nspun their webs both on the upper and the lower surface of the leaves in about equal proportions.\nThe pupa is of a bright golden-brown and the web is of thick white silk. The moths began to\nemerge about the 20th and continued to do so for several days. Several of the pupse were\nparasitized and two hymenopterous species were bred out. These have been determined by\nMr. R. A. Cushman, of the U.S. National Museum, as Ephialtes sanguineipes Cress, and Itopleetis\npaciflcus Cush.\n6448. Agnopteryx rosaciliella Busck. Two specimens of this uncommon oecophorid were\ntaken at Fraser Mills by Mr. Marmont on April 17th.\n6459. Agnopteryx argillacea AVlshm. A single specimen was taken by Air. AV. R. Carter at\nFitzgerald on March 28th.\n6836. Argyroploce galaxana Kearf. The writer took a long series of this pretty little moth\non Mount Tzouhalem on May 24th. It was described (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXXIIL, 9, 1907)\nfrom two specimens taken at A'ernon, B.C., and one from Victoria, B.C.\n6S64. Argyroploce campestrana Zell. Four specimens were taken by Mr. Hanham on Aiount\nJlcLean in August, and Mr. Moilliet took two at A'avenby on July 3rd. Dr. Dyar records taking\nit at Kaslo and states that the larvre occurred on the common thimble-berry  Uiubus nutkanus).\n7263. Ilemimene britana Busck. The writer took a long series of this species at Goldstream\non June 1st to 3rd. It was easily started up in the evenings from patches of red clover alongside\nthe railway-track. A peculiar feature was that during the daytime no amount of beating would\ndisturb them, only one individual being taken in two attempts, although an hour before sunset\nthe slightest tap would start four or five up immediately. The species was described (Proc.\nBiol. Soc. Wash., XIX., 178, 1906) from specimens taken by Dr. Dyar at Kaslo in 1903. Dyar\nin his \"Kootenai List,\" page 929, recorded it under the name of alpinana Treitschke, but\nAir. Busck states in his description that it is quite distinct from the European species.\n7342. Cacwcia persicana Fitch. Of this handsome dark-red and ochre species the writer\ntook a single specimen at Goldstream on July 2nd, and Air. Alarmont took another individual\nat Fraser Mills on June 16th. We have specimens from Wellington (Bryant) and Rossland\n(Danby).   The species is apparently more plentiful at Kaslo.\n7426. Peronea variana Fern. This exceedingly variable species seems rather uncommon in\nBritish Columbia. Air. Alarmont took two specimens at Fraser Mills on September 26th. It is\nrecorded from Kaslo (Cockle) ; Field (Dyar) ; and Air. Hanham has taken two or three\nspecimens at Duncan.  plate hi.\nnoctuidje.\nEuxoa excellens infelix Sm.\nFort Steele, B.C.   (W. B. Anderson).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nAcronycta radcliffei Harvey.\nDuncan, B.C.  (G. O. Day).\n(Rather rare.)\nOligia tonsa Grt.\nKaslo, B.C.   (J. W.  Cockle)\n(Rather rare.)\nLampra nefascia Sm.\nVictoria,  B.C.   (E.  II. Blackmore).\n(Previously misidentified.)\nEriopyrja bostura Sm.\nKalso. B.C.  (J. W. Cockle).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nSympistis ssctterstedti labradoris Stand.\nMount McLean, B.C.   (A. AV. Hanham).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nTa'iiiosca discivaria Wlk.\nVavenby, B.C.   (T. A.  Moilliet).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nTrachea iiiordinata montana Sm.\nChilcotin, B.C.   (E.  It.  Buckell).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nOliyia tonsa mtbjuncta Sm.\nChilcotin, B.C. (E. Ii. Buckell).\n(Very rare.)\nBombycia rcctifascia  Sm.\nVavenby, B.C.   (T. A. Moilliet).\n(Rather rare.)\nBombycia currifascia Sm.\nFraser Mills,  B.C.   (L.  E.  Marmont).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nOncocnemis albifasciata Hamp.\nChilcotin, B.C.   (W. B. Anderson).\n(Very rare.)\nEuxoa rufula Sm.\nMount McLean, B.C.  (A. W. Hanham).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nOrosagrotis incognita Sm.\nMount McLean, B.C.   (A. W. Hanham).\n(New to British Columbia.)\n1'olia olivacea davena Sm.\nKaslo, B.C. (J. W. Cockle).\n(New to British Columbia.) PLATE   HI.  12 Geo. o Provincial Museum Rep-jot. M 29\n7604. Allononyma vicarialis Zell. The writer took two specimens in beautiful condition on\nApril 17th at Fitzgerald and two specimens at Goldstream on May 30th, the latter being rather\nworn. This is the same insect which Dr. Dyar described as A. diana var. betuliperda and which\nis listed in our 1906 Check-list from Kaslo. An examination of Zeller's type in Lord Walsingham's\ncollection by Air. Busck (Pro. Ent. Soc. AVash., XL, 97, 1909) in 1908 proved that vicarialis and\nbetuliperda were conspecific.\nIllustrated Lepidoptera.\nNoctuidw  (Plate 111.).\n1226. Orosagrotis incognita Sm. The specimen illustrated was taken on Aiount AlcLean,\nnear Lillooet, B.C., at an altitude of 5,000 feet by Air. A. AV. Hanham on August 21st, 1920. It\nwas described (Trans. Am. Ent. Socy., Vol. XXL, page 52, 1894) from two males taken at\nLaggan, Alta., by Bean at an altitude of 7,000 feet. In Smith's description he gives the locality\nas Laggan, British Columbia. It is as well to note here that the majority of Smith's earlier\nreferences to British Columbia and to \"North-west B.C.\" really refer to Northern Alberta. That\nis the reason why so many of his species still stand in our local lists as \"B.C.\" without any\nfurther specific localities. Air. Hanham says that the species was not at all uncommon, but\nunfortunately most of the. specimens taken were somewhat worn.\n1274. Euxoa rufula Sm. This species was also taken by Air. Hanham at the same time and\nplace, but was much more scarce than the preceding. It was described (Pro. U.S.N.M., X., 461,\n18S7) from a single male taken by Professor Snow in New Mexico at an altitude of 7,000 feet.\nDr. A. W. Lindsey, who kindly identified it, states that the Mount AlcLean specimen is darker\nthan specimens from Wyoming in the Barnes collection.\n1364a. Euxoa excellens race infelix Sm. Taken by Air. AV. B. Anderson at Fort Steele on\nAugust 15th, 1921. It was described (Trans. Amer. Ent. Socy., \"XAHI., page 57, 1890) from\nCalifornia as a distinct species, but later (Cat. Noct, 1893) Smith placed it as a synonym of\nexcellens. It has been rescued from the synonymy by Barnes & AlcDunnough, who have placed\nit as a race of excellens. The maculation is practically the same, but infelix is of an even dark\ncolour in contradistinction to the contrasting shades of the typical form. Mr. Cockle has also\ntaken a single specimen at Kaslo.\n1584. Lampra (Rhynchagrotis) nefascia Sm. (not negascia as listed, vide Benjamin, Bull.\nSo. Calif. Acad. Sci., XX., 100, Dec., 1921). This species has never been properly placed in\nBritish Columbia collections. It has generally been placed under the name of anchocelioides\nGue.; sometimes under alternata Grt. The majority of the specimens that I have seen are\nof a very even brownish-grey, with the terminal area distinctly paler. The species comes\ncommonly to \" sugar \" at Duncan and I have taken it \" at light\" at A'ictoria and Goldstream\nin September. Mr. Foster H. Benjamin, who has recently revised this difficult genus, has\nkindly gone over my material in this group, and our British Columbia species are now more\naccurately placed than was previously the case.\n1755Q. Polia olivacea race davena Sm. Taken by Mr. J. W. Cockle at Kaslo on June 22nd,\n1910. Amongst some material sent to us for examination by Mr. Cockle was this specimen,\nwhich seemed distinct from any of the five named varieties which are in the Museum collection.\nIt was submitted to Dr. Lindsey, who identified it as davena Sm. It seems closer to comis Grt.\nthan to any other named form, but the pale areas are not so light or so well defined, so that\ndavena is not so contrasty in appearance as comis.\n1828. Eriopyga bostura Sm. The specimen figured was taken by Air. Cockle at Kaslo. on\nAugust 21st, 1913. It does not appear to have been taken in any other locality in British\nColumbia. The only reference that I can find of this species in the literature that I have at\nhand is a note by Wolley-Dod in Bull. B.C. Ent. Soc, No. 10, June, 1908. Under the heading of\n\"Additions\" he lists Graphipora bostura Sm. (Ann. N.Y. Ac. Sci., XVIII., 103). Type from\nKaslo.\n2022. Oncocnemis albifasciata Hamp. This is the most striking of the British Columbia\nspecies of this genus. The specimen figured was taken by Mr. W. B. Anderson at Chilcotin on\nAugust 26th, 1918. The same collector took the species again at Fort Steele on August 15th,\n1921.    Sir George Hampson lists it \" from North-west British Columbia.\"\n2117. Bombycia c.urvifascia Sm. Taken by Air. L. E. Alarmont at Maillardville, B.C., on\nAugust 10th, 1920.    This is the first specimen of this species that I have any record of from -\nM 30 British Columbia. 1922\nBritish Columbia. It was described from California (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XVIII., 109, 1891).\nDr. Lindsey, who kindly determined this specimen, states that there is one specimen in the\nBarnes collection from A'ictoria, B.C., which has been identified as B. thula Strecker.\n2120. Bombycia rectifascia Sm. The specimen figured was taken at A'avenby, B.C., by\nAir. T. A. Afoilllet on August 14th, 1921. The species has been taken at Kaslo by Mr. Cockle,\nand Mr. Day has taken a specimen at Duncan, which was determined by Wolley-Dod as this\nspecies with a question-mark. I have not had an opportunity to compare Air. Day's specimen\nwith the one from A'avenby.\n2201a. Sympistis zetlerstcdti race labradoris Staud. Taken by Mr. Hanham on Mount\nAlcLean on August 21st, 1920. This is a fine record as the species is arctic. It was described\nfrom Labrador.    It is very rare in North American collections.\n2275a. Trachea inordinata race montana Sm. This specimen was taken by Air. E. R. Buckell\nat Chilcotin, B.C., on Alay 30th, 1920. This is another good record and adds another name to\nour list.   It was described (Proc U.S.N.AL, XIII., 444, 1890) from Colorado.\n2342. Oligia tonsa Grt.    Taken by Air. Cockle at Kaslo, B.C., on August 1st, 1907.\n2342a. Oligia tonsa race subjuncta Sm. Taken by Mr. Buckell at Chilcotin, B.C., on\nAugust 1st, 1920. I have taken these two forms together, as there has been considerable doubt\nexpressed at different times as to their specific identity. The former was described by Grote\n(Can. Ent, XII., 214, Oct., 18SO) from Nevada as Hadena tonsa. The latter by Smith (Can.\nEnt, XXX., 323, Dec, 189S) from Colorado and Calgary, Alta. (Dod), as Hadenella subjuncta.\nIn Bull. 52, U.S.N.AL, 1902, Dyar sinks subjuncta as a synonym of minuscula Morr., but Dr. Smith,\nin Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXIX., 194, states that it has nothing to do with minuscula, but it\nis really a synonym of tonsa Grt. Dyar, in Proc U.S.N.M., XXVIL, 809, apparently agrees with\nthis and records tonsa from Kaslo, B.C., and states that the specimens agree with the type of\nsubjuncta. Wolley-Dod, in Oan. Ent., XLIIL, 152, Alay, 1911, discusses the matter at some length,\nbut believes that tonsa and subjuncta are distinct. Barnes & McDunnough have listed (Checklist, Lep. Bor. Amer., 1917) subjuncta as a race of tonsa, a proceeding'which seems a far more\nsatisfactory solution.\nI submitted the Kaslo specimen to Dr. Lindsey as tonsa Grt., and he kindly verified my\ndetermination. I have carefully compared Air. Buckell's specimen with the description and it\nagrees in all essential particulars. It also agrees fairly well with Holland's figure on Plate XIX.,\nFig. 25. I have specimens from Nordegg, Alta. (Bowman), which match exactly the Chilcotin\nspecimen.   They were sent to me as tonsa.\n2364. Twniosea discivaria Walk. Taken by Mr. Aloilliet at Vavenby on July 28th, 1921.\nAs far as I know, this is a new record for British Columbia. It varies considerably in depth\nof colouring, one specimen showing considerable red shading.\n2470. Acronycta radeliffei Harv. The specimen figured was taken at Quamichan Lake, near\nDuncan, by Air. G. O. Day on June 12th, 1908. This is a rare species in British Columbia.\nIt is very close in general habitus to A. grisea revellata Sm. Mr. Day's specimen agrees with\nthe description (Proc. U.S.N.AL, XXL, 107, 1S99) and with the figure given on Plate XII., Fig 4.\nIt was listed in the 1904 B.C..Check-list from Kaslo, B.C., but Dyar did not record the species\nin his \" Kootenai List,\" and it was omitted, probably intentionally, from the 1906 B.C. Check-list.\nMr. Cockle has a specimen which has been identified by Dr. AIcDunnough as this species. I have\nno other records of it, although it may be confused with revellata in some collections. Radeliffei\nis a much narrower-winged species and the course of the tp. and s.t. lines are different. In\nradeliffei the tp. line is broadly outcurved from costa, while in revellata it is only slightly\noblique, with the s.t. line parallel, at least superiorly.\nGeometridw (Plate IV.).\n3997. Dysstroma ethela Hulst. The specimen figured was taken by the writer at Goldstream,\nB.C., on July 3rd, 1921. It is rather a rare species and this is the first specimen that I have\ntaken; it is the most perfect specimen I have seen of this species. It is closely allied to\nD. casloata Tayl., but can generally be separated from the latter by the narrower median band\nand the absence of the extra-basal bar. It has been taken at Wellington (Bryant), Duncan\n(Day & Hanham), and I have seen one specimen taken at Victoria (Meugens, 29, VI., 20).\nDescribed by Hulst (Trans. Am. Ent. Socy., XXIII., 283, 1896) from a single male taken at\nSierra Nevada, Cal. 12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Repo.it. M 31\n4009e. Ilydriomena wubilofasciata form vulnerata Swett. This species is new to the Province\nand was taken by Air. W. Downes at Sluggett's, AM., on Alarch 1st, 1921. Some years previously\nAir. Downes, who was then living in that locality, noticed a species of Hydriomcna occurring in\nFebruary which was apparently different from any of our known spring species in that genus.\nOwing to various causes no opportunity offered until this spring to investigate the matter, when\na nice series was taken with the aid of a lantern. Nubilofasciata Pack, has six described forms\nor races, all of which are colour forms (vide Swett, Can. Ent., XLIIL, 79, 1911) ; this species\ncan at once be differentiated from any other British* Columbia species by the dark marginal\nband of primaries. Mr. Swett in his notes states that he has the species from British Columbia\namongst a number of widely spread localities, but he does not give any specific locality, neither\ndoes he refer to any particular form.\n4192. Eupithecia interruptofasciata Pack. The specimen figured was taken by Air. G. O. Day\nat Alaple Bay, near Duncan, B.C., in August, 1913. This species has not been hitherto recorded\nfrom British Columbia. It is an inhabitant of the Atlantic States and was described in Fifth\nBept. Peab. Acad. Sci., 59, 1873. Mr. Day states that it is rather rare and very local; he has\nnot taken it in any other locality in the vicinity, excepting Alaple Bay.\n4209. Eupithecia mutata Pears. Taken by the writer at Goldstream on July 2nd, 1921.\nThis is one of the rarer species of this genus. The only other specimen that I have seen is a\nrather worn individual taken by myself in a pine woods near Victoria on July 18th, 1913. The\nspecimen figured is in good condition and was obtained by \" beating\" in a heavily wooded\n(chiefly Douglas fir) district. It agrees with Pearsall's description (Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc, XVI.,\n98, June, 1908). The species was described from the Catskill Alountains, New York State.\nIt is closely allied to albicapitata Pack., which is also a rare species in the Province, our only\nrecords being Cowichan Lake (Day) and Kaslo  (Cockle).\n4223. Eupithecia scabrogata Pears. This is another new record to add to the already long\nlist of Eupithecias (about fifty) recorded from British Columbia. It was taken by Air. Theo.\nBryant at Wellington, B.C., on April 16th, 1903. One other specimen taken on March 24th of\nthe same year is not in such good condition. It is quite distinct from any other species that\nwe have.    The determination was made for us by Air. L. W. Swett.\n4316-1. Drepanulatrix secundaria B. & AlcD. Taken by Mr. Cockle at Kaslo, B.C., on June\n14th, 1910. At first thought to be a new species. It, however, agrees with the description\n(Cont. Lep. No. Amer., Vol. III., No. 1, page 25, Nov., 1916) of secundaria, and Dr. Lindsey,\nwho compared it with the types, believes it to be this species, although it is rather far north.\nThe species was described from Mineral King, Cal.\n4374. Phasiane hebetata Hulst. Taken at Chilcotin, B.C., by Mr. E. R. Buckell on July 16th,\n1921: This is the first specimen of this species in good condition that I have seen. We have had\ntwo specimens previously\u2014one from Atlin (E. Al. Anderson) and the other from Chilcotin\n(W. A. Newcombe)\u2014that were referable to this species, but were so denuded of scales as to\nmake accurate identification impossible. The course of the extra and intra-discal lines are\nexactly the same as Barnes & AlcDunnough's figure (Cont. Lep. No. Amer., A'ol. III., No. 4,\nPlate XXII., Fig. 9) of demaculata, which the authors later (ibid., A'ol. IA'., No. 2, page 149)\nsunk as a synonym of hebatata. Air. Buckell's specimen agrees with the description and the\nfigure mentioned. The type material of demaculata also included a specimen from Field, B.C.\nThe species has a wide range, but is rare in British Columbia.\n4425. Itame pustularia Hub. This is another very rare species in British Columbia. The\nspecimen figured was taken by Air. A. W. Phair at Lillooet, B.C., on June 29th, 1920. The only\nother specimen that I know of iu the Province is a specimen taken at Kaslo by Air. Cockle many\nyears ago. It occurs throughout the Atlantic States and.I have specimens from Manitoba. It\nhas not been recorded from Alberta.\n4453. Dysmigia loricaria Evers. This species is new io the Province. A nice series was\ntaken by Air. T. A. Moilliet at A'avenby, B.C.'., during the middle of July, 1921. It was recorded\nin the 1904 B.C. Check-list under the name of Symphcrta Julia Hulst, and the localities given\nare Rocky Alountains and Kaslo (?). I have seen all Air. Cockle's species and he has not taken\nit. The species was left out in the 1900 List. Some specimens, especially if a little rubbed,\nclosely resemble Itame exauspicata Wlk., which also occurs in the same district. The females\nare wingless. Pyralidw (Pyraustinw).\n4994. Evergestis subterminalis B. & AlcD. Taken on Aiount AlcLean by Air. G. O. Day on\nAugust 8th, 1921. Very close to funalis Grt, which also occurs in British Columbia. The latter\nis taken at Kaslo and I have a specimen from A'avenby (T. A. Aloilliet). It is recorded ill the\n1906 Check-list from A'ancouver Island, but this is an error. A specimen from AVellington\n(Bryant) labelled funalis is undoubtedly insulalis B. & AlcD., which occurs at several points on\nthe Island.\n4996. Evergestis simulatalis Grt. This pretty species was taken by Air. AAr. B. Anderson at\nFort Steele, B.C., on August 15th, 1921. Air. Day also took a single specimen on Mount AlcLean\non August 10th.    Dyar lists the species from Arizona and Colorado..\nPyralidw (Scopariinw).\n*Scoparia basalis race pacificalis Dyar. Described (Ins. Ins. Alens., LX., 66, 1921) as a\nnew race from specimens, three taken by the writer at Victoria and Aiount Newton and one taken\nat Grayland, Wash. (H. K. Plank) ; it occurs from mid-July to mid-August The specimen figured\nis one of the co-types and was taken on Mount Newton on August 1st, 1920. Fernaldalis Dyar is\nnow placed as a race of basalis. Dyar in his \" Kootenai List\" records taking a long series of\nfernaldalis at Shawnigan Lake, B.C.    It is also recorded from Kaslo, B.C.\n*Scoparia commortalis Dyar. This new species was described (Ibid., page 67) from\nspecimens taken by the writer at Victoria, B.C., July 15th to 17th, 1920. This species is quite\ndistinct from any other of our British Columbia scoparids and is easily recognizable by its\ngenerally brown appearance and the presence of a broad dark-brown band which follows the\npale outer line.    One of the male co-types is figured.\n5248. Scoparia tricoloralis Dyar. Taken by Mr. L. E. Marmont at Maillardville, B.C., on\nJuly 13th, 1921. This does not appear to be a common species by any means, although it is\nrecorded from several points\u2014Wellington (Bryant), Duncan (Skinner), Ainsworth (Dyar), and\nKaslo (Cockle). It is the most brightly coloured of the British Columbia species and is rather\na pretty insect. Mr. Alarmont took three specimens on the 13th and one on the 26th, but it was\nnot observed between those dates, although it was searched for. He did not take any the\nprevious year.\nPyralidw  (Crambinw).\n*Crambus tuiillus AIcDun. The specimen figured is a male paratype kindly returned to me\nby Dr. McDunnough. It was taken by the writer on May 28th, 1918. This species is very\ncommon in A'ictoria, generally occurring about the middle of Alay. It is very close to dissectus\nGrt. and had previously been determined for me as this species, under which name it was listed\non page 24, Prov. AIus. Rep., 1920. This is the same insect that was listed in the 1904 B.C.\nCheck-list as \" dumetellus Hub. Generally distributed (common).\" I have seen specimens in\nthe Bryant collection labelled dumetellus which are undoubtedly AlcDunnough's new species.\nDr. McDunnough in his description states that \" It (tutillus) is probably closest to dumetellus\nHub., differing in the much shorter and less distinct white costal line.\" Dr, Fernald in his\n\" Crambidai of North America,\" 1896, gives a coloured figure of dissectus (Plate IL, Fig. 12) and\none of dumetellus (Plate III., Fig. 2), and a comparison of these figures with specimens of\ntutillus shows that the latter is closer to dumetellus than it is to dissectus.\nPyralidw  (Phycitinw).\n*Pyla blaekmorella Dyar. Described by Dr. Dyar (Ins. Ins. Mens., 68, 1921) from two\nspecimens taken by the writer on Aiount Tzouhalem, near Duncan, B.C., on June 24th, 1913. A\nfigure of the male paratype is given. The writer in company with Air. G. O. Day climbed Aiount\nTzouhalem on Alay 24th of the present year, but we were about three weeks too soon for this\nspecies. Air. Day, however, secured^ nice series on June 13th. It has not been recorded from\nany other locality.\nOccophoridw.\n6486. Semioscopis aurorella Dyar. The specimen figured was taken by Mr. L. E. Alarmont\nat Alaillardville, B.C., on March 4th, 1921. Another specimen was taken on the 14th of the\nsame month. These two specimens are the only records that we have of this species in the\nProvince.  PLATE IV.\nGEOMETRID\/E.\nHydriomena  nubilofasciata  vul-\nnerata Swett.\nSluggett,   B.C.   (W.   Downes).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nEupithecia  interrupt of asciat a\nPack.\nMaple Bay, B.C. (G. O. Day).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nligia  loricaria  Evers.\nVavenby, B.C.   (T. A. Moilliet).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nDrepanulatrix secundaria  B.\nMcD.\nKaslo, B.C.  (J. W. Cockle).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nEupithecia mutata Pears.\nGoldstream, B.C.   (E.  H. Black-\nmore).\n(Very   rare.)\nPhasianc hebetata Hulst.\nChilcotin, B.C.   (E. R. Buckell).\n(Rather rare.)\nDysstroma ethela Hulst.\nGoldstream,  B.C.   (E.  II. Black-\nmore ).\n(Rather rare.)\nEupithecia  scabrogata  Pears.\nWellington, B.C.  (T. Bryant).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nItame pustularia Hubn.\nLillooet, B.C.   (A.  W.  Phair).\n(Very rare.)\nMICROLEPIDOPTEKA.\nEvergestis  simulatalis  Grt.\nFort  Steele,  B.C.   (W.  B.  Anderson).\n(Now to British Columbia.)\nEvctria eolfaxiana Kearf.\nFitzgerald,  B.C.   (W.  R.  Carter).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nEvergestis subterminalis B. &\nMcD.\nMount McLean, B.C.  (G. 0. Day).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nScoparia commortalis Dyar.\n(Male co-type.)\nVictoria, B.C.  (E. H. Blackmore).\n(New to science.)\nScoparia basalis pacificalis Dyar.\n(Male co-type.)\nMount Newton, B.C.   (E. H. Blackmore).\n(New to science.)\nSemioscopis aurorella Dyar.\nFraser  Mills,   B.C.   (L.   E.   Marmont).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nEnarmonia pinicolana Zell.\nVictoria, B.C.   (W. R. Carter).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nPyla   blackmoretta  Dyar.\n(Male paratype.)\nMount Tzouhalem,  B.C.   (E.\nBlackmore).\n(New to science.)\nChoreutis balsamorrhizella Busck.\nChilcotin, B.C.   (E. R.  Buckell).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nArgyroploce mengelana Fern.\nVavenby, B.C.   (T. A. Moilliet).\n(New to British Columbia.)\nCrambus tutillus McD.\n(Male paratype.)\nVictoria, B.C.   (E. H. Blackmore).\n(New to science.)\nArgyroploce duplex Wlsm.\nVictoria,  B.C.   (W. R.  Carter).\n(Very local.)\nScoparia  tricoloralis  Dyar.\nFraser Mills,  B.C.   (L.  E.  Marmont).\n(Rather uncommon.) PLATE  IV.\n\u2022    1    \\.    ,.\/\n:V,-         .-'V1\n^\n%V    IT   *:&\nTO?\n\u2022^w#v*t-.,    jJJ'   .\u2022\"i'rfSHf'*\nilfe\n%V''\n\u00ab?J^              *W\nW  :   \u2022    - '\n12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 33\nEucosmidne.\n6770. Evetria colfaxiana Kearf. Taken by Mr. AV. B. Carter at Fitzgerald, B.C., on April\n17th, 1921. A short series of five specimens was taken on this date and a single specimen on\nAlay 8th. This species has not hitherto been recorded from the Province. Kearfott (Traus.\nAm. Ent. Soc, XXXIII., 3, 1907) described the species from a siugle male taken at Colfax, Cal.\n6840. Argyroploce mengelana Fern. This is a good record and is new to British Columbia.\nA single specimen, luckily in good condition, was taken at Vavenby, B.C., by Mr. T. A. Moilliet\non July 12th, 1921. It was described (Ent. News. A'., 131, 1894) from ten specimens in poor\ncondition taken by Mr. L. AV. Mengel in North Greenland in 1891.\n6S59. Argyroploce duplex Wlshm. A nice series of this handsome eucosmid was taken by Mr.\nW. B. Carter from June 21st to 28th. 1921. It is exceedingly local and was only taken in a\nvery small area. They were all taken \" at rest\" on a board fence bordering a small grove of\naspen, which is undoubtedly their food-plant. Dr. Dyar in his \" Kootenai List\" records finding\nthe larvse of this species on aspen at Kaslo. It has not been recorded from any other\nlocality in the Province. I have seen one other specimen taken by Mr. Hanham at A'ictoria,\nB.C., many years ago.    It was described (Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 501, 1895) from Colorado.\n7144. Enarmonia pinicolana Zell. The specimen illustrated was taken at Victoria, B.C., by\nW. R. Carter on July 20th, 1921. It is rather uncommon. Mr. Carter has taken two specimens\nand the writer took one in July, 1918. It bears a close superficial resemblance to some forms of\nEucosma solandriana Linn. The species was described by Zeller in 1846 and is widely\ndistributed. Aleyrick (Handb. Brit. Lep., 474, 1S95) gives its distribution as Great Britain,\nNorth and Central Europe, and North Asia, and its food-plant as larch.\nG lyphip t erygidlw.\n7619. Ghorentis balsamorrhizella Busck. Taken by Air. E. R. Buckell at Chilcotin, B.C.,\non May 20th, 1920. This pretty little species, with its sprinkling of iridescent scales, is a new\nrecord for the Province. Four specimens were taken, but they were not in the most perfect\ncondition, the one figured being the best.    It has also been taken at   Vernon (Ruhmann).\nOur sincere thanks are due to the following specialists for identifying material during the\npast season: Dr. J. M. Aldrich, Dr. W. Barnes, Foster IL Benjamin, August Busck, B. A.\nCushman, Dr. H. G. Dyar, Carl Heiurich, Dr. A. W. Lindsey, Dr. J. McDunnough, S. A. Rohwer,\nand L. AV. Swett \u2014-\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u2022>\u25a0\t\nM 34\nBritish Columbia.\n1922\nTHE   PTEROPHORIDJE   OF   BRITISH   COLUMBIA.\nBr E. H. Blackmore, F.E.S.\nThe recent publication of \" The Pterophoridae of America, North of Alexico,\" by Drs. Barnes\nand Lindsey (Cont. Lep. No. Amer., Vol. IV., No. 4, Aug. 1921) has so altered our conception\nof; many of the species, and also of some of the genera in this family, that I have thought it\nadvisable to write this short paper on the species occurring in British Columbia, and to bring\nthem up to date as regards correct determination and nomenclature.\nIn the Check-list of British Columbia Lepidoptera published in 1906 there are naturally a\nnumber of misidentifications, many species to be eliminated, and there are also a considerable\nnumber of additions.\nThe species of this family are for the greater part very difficult to determine correctly, and\nI wish to express my sincere thanks to Dr. A. W. Lindsey for his willing and kindly help in\ndetermining a large number of specimens of doubtful and little-known species. I am also grateful\nfor his kind permission to make use of any part of the \"Revision\" that is applicable to our\nBritish Columbia species.\nAly thanks are also due to Alessrs. Bryant, Cockle, Day, Hanham, and Ruhmann for the loan\nof material, without which this paper would have been incomplete.\nThe Pterophoridae can be distinguished primarily from any other family by the presence of\na series of black spine-like scales on the under-surface of the secondaries.\nIn all the North American species, with one exception, the primaries are bifid and the\nsecondaries are trifid. The exception noted is Agdistis americaha B. & L., which has both fore\nand hind wings entire. Two other exotic genera have the same characteristic, while another one\nhas the primaries quadrifid and a third has them trifid.\nThe following general remarks on the family as a whole, taken from Genera Insectorum\nFasc, 100 (Pterophoridae by E. Aleyrick), will prove of interest:\u2014\n\" Ovum more or less oval, smooth. Larva rather short, with more or less developed fascicles\nof hairs; usually feeding exposed on flowers or leaves, but sometimes internally in stems or\nseed-vessels. Pupa sometimes hairy, attached by tail, or in a slight cocoon above ground. The\nmajority of those species whose food-plants are known are attached to the Composita?, which\nare the most highly organized group of dicotyledonous plants, and this is especially true of the\ntwo largest genera, Platyptilia and Ptcrophorus (Oidwmatophorus), where the association with\nthis order is very marked, probably nine-tenths of the species being attached to it\n\" The fore wings of the imago are very elongate, narrow, dilated posteriorly, and the legs are\nvery long and unusually slender. The general structure seems adapted to secure extreme\nlightness, thus enabling distribution to be effected by the wind without much effort on the\npart of the insect; hence the species need and possess very little muscular power, and are quite\nunable to fly against even a moderate breeze. The method of distribution has been effective,\nfor the species have spread over the whole globe, including the principal oceanic islands;\nthough the wide distribution of some cosmopolitan species is due to artificial introduction with\nthe cultivated shrubs and trees on which the larvae feed.\n\" Probably all the principal genera Originated in Asia, which shows much the greatest\ndiversity of generic forms; the great specific development of Platyptilia and Pterophorus\n(Oidwmatophorus) in America would seem to be due to the large variety of abundant suitable\nfood-plants (Compositse) offered, whilst the relatively insignificant generic modification indicates\nthat the family did not find its way to America until long after its first origin. I infer, therefore, that it originated not only late in time, but at a period when Asia was comparatively isolated\nfrom other regions by wide seas, and that on eventually gaining access to the other continents it\nfound them already well-stocked with a large lepidopterous fauna.\"\nIn North America eleven genera are listed, embracing some 116 species, of which British\nColumbia is represented by six genera with a total of 30 species, being slightly over 25 per cent,\nof the whole. The synonyms of genera and species are not given in their entirety, but only\nso far as they represent names previously given in former B.C. Check-lists. The descriptions of\ngenera are given with the venation omitted, but sufficient structural characters are given that\nwith the additional aid of the plate, no difficulty should be experienced in placing any specimen\nin its proper genus. The descriptions of species are not given in full detail, but all the essential\ncharacters necessary for the identification of our British Columbia species are included. PLATE V.\nPTEROPHORIDiE.\nWing Outlines  op British  Colombia  Gexera.\n1.   TRICIIOI'TILUS.\n\u20222. Pterophorus.\n.'!. Platyptilia.\n4.  Stk.noptilia.\n5.  Adaina.\nOlDiEMATOPHORCS.\nNote.\u2014The above figures were photographed from the original plate in Messrs. Barnes and Lindsey'\n' Pterophoridse, of America, North of Mexico,\" by the kind permission of Dr. A. W. Lindsey.  12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 35\nFAMILY    PTEROPHORIDAE.\nGenus TRICHOPTILUS Walsingham.\nTrichoptilus AValsingham, Pteroph. Cal., Ore., 62, 1880. Characters: Forehead without tuft;\nocelli obsolete. Labial palpi moderate, ascending. Fore wings cleft from before middle, both\nlobes slender, tapering, without anal angle.\n1. Trichoptilus pygm^eus Walsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 64, 1880. A very small species\nmeasuring about 10 mm. in expanse. Fore wings very pale fawn, barred with white on both\nlobes.\nTwo specimens taken at Wellington, B.C. (Bryant), on 30-AH.-03 and 11-VII.-03 respectively.\nOne specimen is without head or body and the other is simply pinned. There is no record of any\nother specimens having been taken since. An exceedingly rare species. The type series included\nthree specimens taken near Aliiiville, Cal., on July 11th, 1871. Two of them are in the British\nMuseum, the remaining one being in the Fernald collection at Amherst, Alass. One other specimen\nis in the U.S. National Museum.    I believe that these six specimens are all that are known.\nGenus   PTEROPHORUS  Geoffroy.\nPterophorus Geoffroy, Hist. Nat. Ins., IL, page 90, 1762.\nOxyptilus Zeller, Isis X., page 765, 1S41.\nCharacters: Forehead- smooth without tuft; ocelli obsolete. Labial palpi moderate,\noblique; second joint with a ventral apical tuft in one British Columbian species; third joint\nmoderate. Tibia? thickened with scales at base of spurs. Primaries bifid, cleft from about\nmiddle. Secondaries trifid, third feather with a well-developed tuft of black scales in the fringes\nof the inner margin.\n1. Pterophorus tenuioactylus Fitch. Trans. N.Y. Agr. Soc, XIV., 848, 1854. Primaries\ndark brown with a coppery tinge, with a fine transverse white line across outer half of both lobes.\nFirst lobe with a broader stripe basad of this; second lobe with this stripe reduced to a small\nwhite patch. Palpi white with lateral brown stripes. Thorax white behind. Abdomen brown\nwith diverging pairs of white stripes on the third segment. Fourth segment entirely brown\nabove; fifth mostly white. Beneath the abdomen is more heavily marked with white. Expanse,\n13-17 mm.\nDyar in his \" Kootenai List\" records two specimens of this species as having been bred\nfrom the thimble-berry (Rubus nutkanus). Specimens sent to me by Air. J. AV. Cockle from\nKaslo as tenuidactylus turn out to be Pterophorus delawaricus Zell. The only authentic specimen\nthat I have seen is a unique taken by Air. G. O. Day at Quamichan Lake, near Duncan, on July\n14th, 1907. Dr. Lindsey tells me that the species is widely distributed and is quite common in\nsome localities.\n2. Pterophorus ningoris AValsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 26, 1880. Fore wings dull brown\nwith a greyish cast caused by the presence of white and fuscous scales. Both lobes crossed\nby two white lines; the outer one slender, the inner one broad. The lobes are somewhat narrower\nthan in our other two species of this genus. Secondaries brown; third lobe paler, white beyond\nmiddle, with large tuft of blackish scales in fringes at outer third. Palpi rather long and slender,\noblique, dark brown, with both joints white-tipped. First spurs attached about three-fifths from\nbase of tibia and reaching its tip.    Expanse, 18-20 mm.\nDyar records it from Kaslo and states that the larvaj were found feeding on a herbaceous\nplant with milky juice, Hieracium albiflorum. In our 1906 B.C. Check-list it is also recorded\nfrom AA'ellington, but the specimens labelled ningoris in the Bryant collection and from which the\nrecord was taken all prove upon examination to be delawaricus. Mr. Day took one female\nspecimen at Cowichan Lake on June ISth, 1913.\n3. Pterophorus uelawaricus Zeller, Verb z-b Ges. AVien., XXIII., 320, 1873. Fore wings\nbright golden-brown, with both lobes crossed by two inwardly oblique white stripes; the outer\none slender, the inner one broader. Palpi brown at the sides; the vestiture of the second joint\nproduced into a point below, which almost reaches tip of third. Abdomen with diverging white\ndashes above.    Expanse, 18-20 mm.\nThis species is far more common than the other two. 1 have it from Victoria (Blackmore) ;\nFitzgerald (Carter) ; Goldstream (Blackmore) ; AA'ellington (Bryant); Fraser Mills (Alarmont) ;\nKaslo (Cockle) ; and Rossland (Danby) ; the dates ranging from June 16th to July 26th. M 36 . British Columbia. 1922\nThe three species are superficially very close, but delawaricus can be separated from\ntenuidactylus and ningoris by the second joint of the labial palpi having a projecting ventral\ntuft which nearly reaches the tip of the third, and tenuidactylus can be distinguished from\"\nningoris by the position of the median spurs on the hind tibiae. .In tenuidactylus these spurs are\nattached to about the middle of the tibia?, while in ningoris they are attached three-fifths or more\nof length of joint from its base.\nGenus PLATYPTILIA  Huebner.\nPlatyptilia Huebner, A'erz. bek. Schmett, 429, 1826. Characters: Front with a prominent\nscale tuft in some species, usually with at least a moderate tuft. Palpi short, scarcely exceeding\nfront, to long; second joint oblique; third porrect Tibiae sometimes with slight scale-tufts.\nFore wings cleft not more than one-third their length, anal angle evident on botli lobes, in some\nspecies prominent and in some retreating. Hind wings trifid, third feather with black scales or\nscale-tuft in fringes of inner margin in most species. .\n1. Platyptilia punctidactyla Haworth, Lep. Brit., 479, 1812.\nAlucita cosmodactyla Huebner, Samml. Eur. Schmett., 35, 1823.\nPrimaries brownish-grey to olive-black, with a very variable superficial white irroration.\nCosta with white dots on a blackish ground running from base of wing to cleft. A black\ntriangle, paler on the costa, reaches just beyond base of cleft. Third feather of secondaries\nwith black scales along inner margin, a large triangular scale-tooth just beyond middle and a\nsmall tuft at apex.    Expanse, 20-23 mm.\nThis is the cosmodactyla of our previous lists, which Meyrick places as a synonym of\npunctidactyla. Although only previously recorded from Kaslo, it is widely distributed, as I\nhave it from Victoria (Blackmore) ; Fitzgerald (Carter) ; Goldstream (Blackmore) ; Duncan\n(Day) ; AVellington (Bryant) ; Fraser Mills (Alarmont) ; Lillooet (Phair) ; Aiount AlcLean\n(Hanham) ; Fort Fraser (Anderson) ; Kaslo (Cockle) ; and Chilcotin (Buckell). The species\nextends as far east as Afanitoba, south to Illinois, Colorado, and South California. It also\noccurs in Europe and Japan. It feeds on a number of food-plants; Afeyrick (Handb. Brit. Lep.,\n433, 1895) gives Stachys, Aquilegia and Geranium as the European food-plants. Dyar records it\nfrom Kaslo as feeding in the red bracts of the high-bush honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata).\nAir. Cockle bred specimens from the Indian paint-brush (Castilleja) in 1907.\n2. Platyptilia pica Walsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 21, 1880. Primaries white to well beyond\nbase of cleft, followed by a black shade which terminates at the usual transverse white lines on\nthe two lobes. Costa black with white spots and a heavy black triangle before cleft. Terminal\narea brownish with white scales which sometimes cover the darker colour. Third lobe of\nsecondaries much as in the preceding species. The abdomen offers the only constant distinguishing feature. Its upper surface is marked with a large white triangle on each segment, apex\nforward, and the last few segments are almost entirely white. Beneath it is broadly white in\nits distal half.    Expanse, 18-24 mm.\nThis species is rather uncommon, the specific localities being Victoria (Carter) ; Fitzgerald\n(Blackmore); Duncan (Day) ; and Wellington (Bryant). It has not been recorded from the\nMainland as yet. The types were taken at Crescent City, North California, and it has been\ntaken at Seattle and Mount Rainier, AVash.\nThe species varies considerably and in some cases closely approaches punctidactyla. The\ntwo species, however, can always be separated by the white triangles on the abdomen as noted\nabove.\n3. Platyptilia tesseraoactyla Linnaeus, Faun. Suec, 370, 1761. Primaries rather evenly\ngreyish, the markings produced by variation in the mixture of white scales, and therefore\npowdery and indefinite. Costa darker, dotted with white, with the usual dark triangle before\ncleft, sometimes very vague. Outer transverse white line present, incomplete on second lobe.\nSecondaries with dark scales at tip of each lobe and a weak tuft of approximately equal dark\nscales just beyond middle of inner margin of third lobe. Palpi small, scarcely exceeding front.\nThorax white behind.   Expanse, 16-20 mm.\nThis is apparently a rare species in the Province. In Dyars \" Kootenai List\" he records\ntwo specimens\u2014Bear Lake AIountain (July 29th) and Kokanee AIountain (August 11th). None\nhave been recorded since until this year. Mr. R. S. Thomson, who was with a surveying party\nIn the mountains some 10 miles from Princeton, captured a single pterophorid which was deter- '\n12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 37\nmined by Dr. Lindsey as this species. In Air. M. Ruhmann's material there is a single specimen\nlabelled Vernon, but without date. The species occurs in Eastern Canada and the Atlantic\nStates, extending west to Pennsylvania and Colorado. It also occurs in Europe and West Central\nCentral Asia.\n4. Platyptilia carduidacty'la Riley, Rept. Ins. Alo., 180, 1809. Primaries brownish-buff,\nwith the costa dark brown dotted with white as far as the usual brown triangle, which is much\nthe darkest part of the wing. The heavy triangle contains a dark transverse dash before cleft\nwhich is visible only in pale specimens; both lobes pale brown crossed by a vague light line\ntoward outer margin. Fringes grey-buff with a row of brown scales in base along outer margin,\ngrey tufts at apices and anal angles, and two dark-brown scale-tufts on inner margin. Secondaries\ngrey-brown, fringes slightly paler, with short dark scales at apices of first two lobes. Fringes\nof inner margin of third lobe with a prominent triangular tooth of dark-brown scales at middle.\nThis tooth is preceded and followed by a variably complete row of short, dark scales and the\nlobe is whitish before it. Frontal tuft moderate, blunt, surpassed by third joint of oblique palpi.\nExpanse, 20-27 mm.\nThis is one of our commonest species and is widely distributed. I have specimens from a\nlarge number of localities; from Vancouver Island to Rossland and from Prince Rupert to\nA'avenby. It occurs all throughout the United States and has been taken at Labrador. According\nto Riley, the larvae are gregarious, living in webbed heads of common thistles.\n5. Platyptilia percnodactyla Walsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 8, 1880. The general appearance of this species is substantially the same as the preceding, differing chiefly in the greatly\nreduced scale-tuft on the third lobe of secondaries.\nIll carduidactyla this scale-tooth is distinctly triangular; in percnodactyla it is often very\nweak and made up of scales of approximately equal length. They may be forms of one species,\nbut the early stages of percnodactyla are unknown. Careful breeding may clear up the standing\nof the species. Specimens which have been definitely determined as this species are from\nA'ictoria (Carter) ; Goldstream (Blackmore) ; Wellington (Bryant) ; and Aiount McLean (Day\nand Hanham).\n0. Platyptilia edwardsii Fish. Can. Ent., XIII., 72, 1881. Primaries buff, frequently tinged\nwith brown and hoary with whitish scales, the buff appearing only in the pale markings and\nalong the inner margin. The usual dark triangle is blackish-brown. Brown shade continued\nalong costa to base, towards which it becomes faint. Brown spot in cell is usually connected\nwith costa. Inner margin frequently with brown shades. Both lobes with pale outer line,\nincomplete on second, preceded by a heavy brown shade which blends into buff or greyish\ntowards triangle. Terminal area hoary with whitish scales over brown. Secondaries grey-\nbrown, third lobe having scattered brown scales on inner margin and a variable but always\nweak tuft of slender, almost equal brown scales within outer third of feather. Thorax somewhat\nhoary, whitish behind. Palpi moderate, oblique, scarcely exceeding the short, conical frontal tuft.\nExpanse, 19-29 mm.\nThis is apparently a high-altitude species in British Columbia and has only been taken in\na few localities\u2014Hope Alountains (Day) ; Aiount McLean (Hanham and Day) ; Kaslo (Cockle);\nRossland (Danby) ; and Aiount Cheam (Harvey). The types were taken at Boston and Amherst,\nAlass., and it also occurs on Mount Rainier, AA'ash.\nEdwardsii caii always be separated from the two preceding species by the scale-tooth on\nthe inner margin of the third feather of secondaries being always placed at the outer third,\nwhile in carduidactyla and percnodactyla it is in the middle of the lobe. In addition, the\nspecies is considerably darker in appearance and generally larger, although all three species vary\nconsiderably in size.\n7. Platyptilia orthocarpi AValsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., IL, .1880. Primaries ochreous along\ninner margin, mixed brown and white with a few ochreous scales toward costa. Costa itself\nnarrowly blackish-brown with white dots. Dark triangle before cleft. Terminal area brown,\nhoary with white scales, preceded by a faint transverse pale line, less complete on second lobe.\nSpaces between this and triangle ochreous irrorate with white, with an elongate triangular\nbrown dash and costal shade on first lobe and two dashes on second. Cleft margined with a\nfew dark scales. Secondaries brown, third lobe more ochreous. Fringes greyish with white\nbases along inner margins and at apices of first two lobes; containing a few brown scales in\nbasal half of third lobe.    Palpi brownish ochreous, moderate, oblique, touched with white above \u25a0\nM 38\nBritish Columbia.\n1922\nand below.    Thorax mostly whitish in front and behind, brownish ochreous across tips of patagia.\nExpanse, 20-26 mm.\nA very rare species. There is only one record from British Columbia\u2014a single specimen\ntaken by Mr. G. O. Day in June. The type came from Northern Oregon, where they were reared\nfrom a species of Orthocarpus. Writing of ortliocarpi, Barnes and Lindsey state that \" Together\nwith fragilis, shastw, and albida, they make up an extremely difficult group which we are\ninclined to believe in a state of evolution. The named forms can be recognized, but whether\nto regard them as forms and races of one species or as distinct species is a question which\nwe are unable to decide.\"\n8. Platy'ptilia fragilis AValsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 16, 1880. In this species the\ncharacters are much the same as in the preceding, except that the general colour is more or less\nbuff or light brown.    Expanse, 20-24 mm.\nIn the Bryant collection several specimens stood under the name of fragilis, but upon examination they all proved to be albiciliata Wals., with the exception of one .specimen, which\nDr. Lindsey agrees is fragilis. The specimen is a little undersized, barely measuring 18 mm.\nIt lacks antenna} and abdomen, but is otherwise in good condition. It was taken by Air. Bryant\nat Wellington on July 13th, 1903. The species occurs in Washington, California, Arizona, and\nColorado.\n9. Platyptilia albiciliata AValsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 17, 18S0. Fore wings even dull\nbrown, dark triangle faintly indicated. Fringes greyish with pale bases which bear a row of\ndark scales on the outer margin. Secondaries are concolorous, their fringes with pale bases,\nsometimes conspicuous, and a few scattered brown scales along the inner margin of the third\nlobe. Expanse, 21 mm. Thorax somewhat lighter behind. Palpi are moderate, oblique, and the\nfrontal tuft very short and blunt.\nBritish Columbia examples differ from the above abbreviated description, in having the dark\ntriangle well marked aitd the outer pale line discernible on the first lobe in most specimens.\nThere is also some irroration of bluish-white scales on the disk and along the costal edge; in\nsome specimens this irroration is extended to the terminal area of both lobes of the primaries.\nThe species has been taken at Wellington (Bryant) ; Mount AlcLean (Day) ; and at Barkerville (Buckell). The single specimen taken by Air. Buckell is a darker brown than the other\nBritish Columbia specimens and of a more even colour. The species was described from North\nCalifornia. There is a specimen from Alontana in the Barnes collection which is doubtfully\nreferred to this species.   The early stages are unknown.\n10. Platyptilia albicans Fish, Can. Ent., XIII., 71, 1881. Primaries creamy white with\nwhite-irrorate brown areas, the colours about equally extensive. Both lobes with a terminal\nbrown band and one just before middle which fades out toward inner margin. Costa brown\nas far as base of cleft and inward to a transverse dash before cleft. Fringes white with grey\ntips; brown and white scales in bases along outer margin. Secondaries grey-brown with a\nfaint tuft of slender scales, not visible without lens, near middle of inner margin of third lobe.\nExpanse 17-24 mm. Frontal tuft lacking. Palpi small and slender, but projecting well beyond\nfront;  brownish on sides.\nThe only records for British Columbia are specimens taken by Air. G. O. Day. One taken\nat Hope Alountains in July, 190S, and another one taken on Stokers AIountain, .near Cowichan\nLake, on July 23rd, 1909. Writing on the species, Barnes and Lindsey remark \" that the Stoker\nMountain specimen is anomalous. We place it here with little hesitation, though it is so much\ndarker than the typical form that a casual examination discloses little resemblance. It corresponds in essential features with our series, but differs in having the brown areas darker and\nmore extended, the pale areas consequently narrow and somewhat tinged with brown.\"\nThe species was described from Nevada and has been taken at Wyoming and Colorado.\nThe early stages are unknown.\n11. Platyptilia pallidactyla Ilaworth, Lep. Brit, 478, 1812. Primaries with nebulous\nbright-brown and whitish markings. Cleft preceded by two brown dots. Pale areas a blotch in\ncell, preceded by a brown dot, one near inner margin about one'-third from base, and a broader\narea below base of cleft. Lobes paler brown, crossed by a pale line outwardly and with a pale area\non costa above base of cleft, before which costa is narrowly dark brown, dotted with white.\nAll brown areas slightly irrorate with white. Secondaries brown. Fringes of inner margin of\nthird lobe with pale bases and usually with a faint cluster of slender dark scales just beyond 12 Geo. 5 '      Provincial Museum Report. M 39\nmiddle. Expanse 21-26 mm. Frontal tuft about, as long as head, sharply pointed. Palpi long,\nslender, porrect, noticeably surpassing tuft.\nOur British Columbia specimens agree with the above description, excepting' in the faint\ncluster of slender dark scales on the inner margin of third lobe. In all the specimens I have\nexamined the cluster is absent, but in most of the specimens there are a few scattered dark\nscales, mostly in the basal half. I have it from A'ictoria (Carter) ; Goldstream (Day and\nBlackmore) ; A^ernon (Ruhmann) ; and Kaslo (Cocklel. I found it not uncommon at Gold-\nstream in June. It apparently ranges over the entire North American Continent north of\n37\u00b0 latitude, and also occurs in Europe.\n12. Platyptilia albert.*: Barnes and Lindsey, Cont. Lep. No. Amer., A'ol. IV., No. 4, 346,\nAug-., 1921. Primaries white. Costa narrowly brownish-grey to cleft. Cleft preceded by two\ndark dots; a third similar dot in middle of cell. Lobes with terminal and median greyish\nshades defining the broad outer white line. Fringes white, basal scales on outer margin white.\nSecondaries very light brownish-grey, fringes and third lobe paler.    Expanse 24-27 mm.\nThe shape of the primaries is distinctive. Towards the apex the costa is abruptly rounded,\nthe apex is very blunt, and the outer margin of the first lobe almost straight. The first lobe\nand consequently the entire wing looks very wide and blunt. Frontal tuft as long as head,\nsharply pointed.    Palpi moderate, oblique surpassing front, but not reaching end of tuft.\nThe species was described from four specimens, as follows: Holotype female, Laggan, Alta.,\nAugust 16th to 23rd, and one paratype female, Olympic Alountains, AVash., in Coll. Barnes.\nAllotype male, Mount Cheam, B.C., August, in Coll. Blackmore. Paratype female, Laggan, Alta.,\nAugust 16th to 23rd, in U.S. National Museum.\nThe Aiount Cheam specimen was taken by the late Captain R. A'. Harvey in August, 1903.\nAmong some material sent by Air. Cockle, of Kaslo, for examination were two specimens of\nthis- new species. Both of them are rather wrorn and one is without abdomen; the latter,\npresumably taken at Kaslo, is without date. The other specimen was taken at Sandon on\nAugust 9th, 1904.\nUnfortunately the wings have a tendency to stain easily and in the allotype they are more\nor less tawny.    It is evidently a high-altitude species.\nGenus STENOPTILIA  Huebner.\nStenoptilia Huebner, A'erz. bek. Schmett, 430, 1826. Front with a rounded or conical\nprominence or a scale-tuft. Ocelli present. Palpi various. Primaries bifid, cleft from about\ntwo-thirds. Secondaries trifid, third feather without dark scales in fringes of inner margin.\nAnal angles of both lobes of primaries very retreating. A'ery closely allied to the preceding\ngenus, but can be separated from the greater part of Platyptilia by the lack of dark scales in\nthe fringes of the secondaries and from the remainder by the retreating anal angles.\n1. Stenoptilia mengeli Fernalcl, Pter. No. Amer., 60, 1898. Primaries ashy-grey and glistening ; a few dark fuscous scales on the first lobe form an ill-defined longitudinal stripe on the\nmiddle; a fuscous spot at the end of the cleft Hind wings ashy-grey. Expanse 20 mm.\nThorax and palpi dark ashy-grey.    A fine white line occurs over each eye.\nA single specimen taken by Air. A. W. Hanham on Aiount McLean in August constitutes our\nonly record. It is a rather surprising capture, as very few specimens are known. It was\ndescribed from ten poor specimens taken by Mr. W. L. Alengel at McCormack's Bay, North\nGreenland in 1S91. Barnes and Lindsey record a single specimen from Colorado which is slightly\npaler than the types. The latter specimen is in the U.S. National Aluseum. This is apparently\nall that are known.\n2. Stenoptilia exclamationis AValsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 32, 1880.\nStenoptilia coloradensis Fernald, Pter. No. Amer., 61, 1898.\nPrimaries dark brownish-grey on costa, blending into ochreous or pale grey on inner margin,\nand irrorate with white in most specimens. The white scales are heaviest on the terminal area\nof both lobes. Cleft preceded by two blackish dots, usually fused. First lobe with a heavy\nblackish shade, margined outwardly with white and preceded on costa by a white dash. There\nis usually a blackish dot near middle of cell. Fringes white in cleft, with greyish clusters before\nouter.margin, elsewhere grey, white below apices of both lobes. Secondaries brownish-grey with\nconcolorus fringes. Expanses, 18-24 mm. (British Columbia examples are more consistent in\nsize, measuring 22 mm.) Palpi moderate, whitish abave; third joint small; a white line over\neach eye. A rather uncommon species in the Province. I have it from Fitzgerald (Carter) and Fraser\nMills (Alarmont), and have seen a specimen from Kaslo (Cockle). The species occurs in\nManitoba and Ontario. The types of exclamationis came from the Siskiyou Alountains, North\nCalifornia, and the types of colorandensis were taken in Colorado. Barnes and Lindsey, who\nhave examined the types, consider them conspecific.    The early stages are unknown.\nGenus ADAINA Tutt.\nAdaina Tutt, Ent. Rec, XVII., 37, 1905. Ocelli obsolete. Palpi moderate, ascending, slender.\nPrimaries cleft from two-thirds or before. Secondaries trifid, third feather without black scales\nin fringes. A'ery.close to Oidwmatophorus, but differs chiefly in venation of primaries, as a\nreference to the figures on Plate V. will show. The cleft in primaries is also cut more deeply,\nthus making the lobes longer in proportion.\n1. Adaina Montana Wals. form declivis Meyrick, Exot. Alicrolep., I., 112, 1913. Primaries\ncleft to three-fifths, lobes rather narrow, equal, pointed; white, sometimes mixed with light-\nbrownish suffusion; basal half with a few scattered dark fuscous scales; a moderate oblique\nfascia of dark fuscous irroration from costa beyond base of cleft to middle of inner margin. Both\nlobes more or less sprinkled with dark fuscous. Fringes white on inner margins of both lobes,\nbrownish towards apices. Secondaries rather dark grey with fringes paler. Expanse 16 mm.\nThorax white, posterior half sometimes light brownish, abdomen white, sometimes with faint\nbrownish dorsal lines. (The British Columbia example has the posterior half of the thorax\nand the abdomen a light ochreous.)\nOne specimen in fair condition taken by Air. W. B. Anderson at Fort Fraser on September\n16th, 1921.\nThe species was described from two specimens taken at Toronto, Ont., in August. It also\noccurs in Manitoba. It has been reared in Colorado by Dyar and Caudell in the heads of\nHelianthus pumilus. \u2022\nGenus   OIDAEMATOPHORUS   Wallengren.\nOidwmatophorus AVallengren, Skand. F-jiid., 19, 1859.\nPterophorus Wallengren (not Geoff.), ibidem, 20, 1859.\nFront rarely with tuft. . Ocelli obsolete. Palpi short to long, usually slender, and more or\nless oblique. Tibia with or without conspicuous scale-tufts. Primaries cleft two-fifths or less.\nSecondaries trifid, fringes without black scales.\nWriting of this genus, Barnes and Lindsey state, in part, that \" The species of Oidwmatophorus are not at all difficult to identify when one has gained some familiarity with them.\nUsually some one or two characters suffice, but we have found that very nearly all characters\nof colour and pattern are subject to such variation that the construction of a key is very difficult.\"\nAs there are sixty species of this genus in North America, many of which are closely allied,\nthe authors prepared a key combining structural characters together with those of coloration and\nmaculatiou. A number of species were inserted under two categories so as to make use of the\nmost salient features.\nAs only eleven of these-species occur in the Province, I have constructed a key based (with\nthe exception of monodactylus Linn.) on the colour and pattern of the wings alone, which I think\nwill suffice for the identification of most of our British Columbia species of this genus.\nKey to the Species.\ni\n1. Primaries white or whitish      2\nPrimaries light ochreous to tawny      4\n2. Primaries white with scattered dark-brown irroration; a dark-brown costal\npatch over base of cleft  2 mathewianus\nPrimaries whitish        3\n3. With a wide dark-brown diskal streak from base to cleft; oblique costal\npatch over base of cleft 5 fieldi\nWith wide tawny streak on costal margin of first lobe; fringes on primaries\nbrown, contrastingly darker than wing.    No costal patch  ....6 phwbus\n4. Primaries tawny with heavy brown costal mark over base of cleft; small\nbrown shade before cleft  1 occidentalis\nPrimaries light ochreous; a blackish-brown rounded spot a short distance\nbefore cleft and another fainter one above it, sometimes connected by\na faint line   7 helianthi  PLATE  VI.\nPTEROPHORID.H.\n1. Pterophorus  tenuidactylus   Fitch.     Quamichan  Lake,   B.C.\n2. Pterophorus delawaricus Zell.    Eraser Mills, B.C.\n3. Stenoptilia exclamationis Wlsm.     Eraser Mills, B.C.\n4. Platyptilia punctidactyla Haw.    Kaslo, B.C.\n5. Platyptilia pica Wslm.    Victoria, B.C.\n6. Platyptilia tesscradactyla Linn.     Vernon, B.C.\n7. Platyptilia fragilis Wlsm.     Wellington. B.C.\nS. Platyptilia albiciliata Wlsm.     Wellington. B.C.\n9. Platyptilia carduidactyla  Riley.    Victoria,  B.C.\n10. Platyptilia paUidaetyla Haw.     Goldstream, B.C.\n11. Platyptilia edwardsii Fish.     Mount McLean, B.C.\n12. Oidamatophorus fleldi Wright.     Atlin, B.C.\n13. Oidamatophorus grisesccns Wlsm.     Kaslo, B.C.\n14. Oithrmutophorus cincraveus Fish.    Alberni, B.C.\n15. Adaina montana dccliris Meyr.     Fort Fraser, B.C.\n16. Stenoptilia mengeli Fern.     Mount McLean, B.C.\n17. Oidwmatophorus corvus B. &. L.    Goldstream, B.C.\nIS.   Oidwmatophorus stramineus Wlsm.     Kaslo. B.C.\n19. Oidwmatophorus occidentalis Wlsm.     Vavenby, B.C.\n20. Oidwmatophorus mathewianus Zell.    Kaslo, B.C.\n21. Oidwmatophorus hetianthi Wlsm.     Kaslo.  B.C.\n22. Oidwmatophorus homodactylus Wlk.    Mount McLean, B.C.\n23. Oidwmatophorus monodactyhis Linn.    Victoria, B.C.\n24. Platyptilia albertw B. & L.     Kaslo, B.C. PLATE  VI.\n^5\nfen\n<_-\".\u2014--\n'.\u25a0\/f'  '^\u25a0\u2022w\nio\n., \u2014*  12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 41\n5. Species smaller.    Primaries pale yellow or yellow-tinged     6\nNot such species      7\n6. Primaries definitely yellowish;  generally with a heavy tawny shade from\nbase to first iobe.    Expanse, 15-21 mm 9 stramincus\nPrimaries pale greyish-yellow; a greyish-brown shade generally present\nin first lobe. Secondaries conspicuously darker. Expanse 17-20\nmm 10   corvus\n7. Entirely  snowy white    8  homodaetylus\nPrimaries grey, powdered with blackish-brown and white scales;   inner\nmargin conspicuously brownish  3 grisescens\nPrimaries ash-brown to ash-grey, generally heavily irrorated with blackish\nscales.    Base of cleft white preceded by a blackish triangular mark\nconnecting with a dark costal dash  ,4 cineraceus\nPrimaries variable; from tawny to red-brown and grey; anal angle of\nsecond lobe with extremely long fringes. Hind tarsi with a conspicuous dorsal crest on upper surface 11 monodactylus\n1. Oidwmatophorus occidentalis AValsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 37, 1880. Primaries creamy\nwhite to deep ochreous, normally with a heavy brown costal mark over base of cleft, preceded\nand followed by a few whitish scales. This patch is connected with a small brown triangular\nshade before cleft. The wing is marked with cloudy brown areas and the first lobe is light\nbrown. Fringes even tawny-grey. Secondaries brownish, shining with paler fringes. Expanse\n26-29 mm. Head with a pale patch between antennae, otherwise the darkest part. Thorax,\nconcolorous with primaries, paler behind. Palpi rather small, oblique; second joint thickened,\nwhite-tipped. Front tibiae with a heavy double tuft of brown scales in terminal half, rnid-tibise\nwith heavy median and terminal tufts of the same colour. Inner spur of median pair on hind\ntibiae almost twice as long as outer.    A very variable species.\nThe records in British Columbia are from Kaslo (Cockle) ; Rossland (Danby) ; A'avenby\n(Moilliet) ; and a rather worn specimen from Fort Steele (W. B. Anderson). The type series\nwas taken in California and it occurs in Arizona and Utah.\n2. Oidwmatophorus mathewianus Zeller. Verb. Zoot-bot Ges. Wien., 445, 1874. Primaries\nwhite with variably extensive tawny brown shades, usually confined to inner half, but sometimes\nencroaching on first lobe. Costa with scattered dark-brown scales forming a long spot over\nbase of cleft and two white dots beyond. Cleft preceded by a white area, and this by a davk-\nbrown dash continued obliquely to costal spot by a light-brown shade. Sometimes a dark dot\nnear middle of cell and some scattered patches of dark-brown irroration. Inner margin of first\nlobe with a brown dot belore apex, followed by a white pencil in the fringe. Fringes light\nbrownish-grey with some white hairs. Secondaries brownish-grey. Expanse 21-27 mm. Head,\nthorax, and abdomen white. Palpi short, oblique, brown-speckled. Front tibise with a large\nbrown scale tuft; mid-tibia? with two heavy brown tufts; hind legs white.\nDescribed from Vancouver Island. I have not seen any specimens from the Island, although\nextensive collecting has been done on the southern portion of the Island, neither are there any\nspecimens in the Bryant collection from AVellington. A short series was taken in August by\nMessrs. Day and Hanham on Aiount AlcLean, and three specimens sent to me by Air. Cockle, of\nKaslo, as Petrophorus brucei Pern, turn out to be this species. Mr. Day records a specimen\nof this species taken by his son at Dawson, Yukon Territory, in 1910. It occurs in Southern\nCalifornia, and Barnes and Lindsey refer to this species specimens taken in Colorado and Alaiue\nwhich differ from typical specimens, but agree in all essential features.\n3. OiDiEMATOPHORCs grisescens AValsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 34, 1880. Primaries narrow,\nheavily sprinkled with white, and with some scattered blackish scales. Ground colour of inner\nhalf, brown; of costal half, apparently grey-brown, the scales tipped with white; but this area\nof the wing is greyish-white because of the predominating white scales. Costa with a grey-brown\ndash over base of cleft and two spots beyond. Cleft preceded by a white patch, and this by a\nsmall blaekisb spot curving forward to costal dash in a slender line. First lobe with a black\ndot before apex, followed by a white pencil in the fringes. Fringes brownish-grey wTith a mixture\nof white hairs. Secondaries grey-brown with concolorous fringes. Expanse 23-30 mm. Head\nand thorax clothed with grey-tipped white scales. Palpi short, oblique, each joint white-tipped.\nAbdomen whitish with brown-tipped scale tufts on posterior margins of segments. \u25a0\n**\u25a0\nM 42 British Columbia. 1922\nOne specimen taken by Air. Cockle at Kaslo on August 1st, 1907. This is a very distinct\nspecies and cannot he confused with any other British Columbia species. Type series were reared\nfrom Artemisia sp. at Bogue River, Southern Oregon. It also occurs in California, Colorado,\nand Arizona. Barnes and Lindsey also record a specimen from \" British Columbia (June),\"\nbut no specific locality is given.\n4. Oidwmatophorus cineraceus Fish., Can., Ent, XIIL, 73,188.1. Primaries brownish-white\nto greyish, often darker toward costa. There is a variable irroration of blackish scales which\ntends to collect between the veins and in the basal half of the wing. AVhitish at base of cleft,\npreceded by a brown dash which curves outward to brown costal dash above base of cleft.\nFringes brownish-grey with a few white hairs. Secondaries grey-brown with fringes, concolorous. Expanse 27-29 mm. Palpi short, oblique. Abdomen brownish-white, with central dark\ndots in distal half.\nNot uncommon and widely distributed. Becorded from Duncan (Day) ; Wellington (Bryant) ;\nAlberni (Bedford) ; Aiount AlcLean (Day) ; Kaslo (Cockle) ; and A'avenby (Aloilliet). We have\nnot seen the species from either Victoria or Goldstream.\nOur British Columbia specimens are very even in their colouring, all that I have seen being\nof the typical brownish-white form. The irroration of the blackish scales Is, however, very\nvariable. The species occurs in Washington, California, Colorado, Utah, Pennsylvania, and\nAlanitoba.    The life-history is unknown.\n5. Oidwmatophorus fieldi Wright, Ent. News. XXXII., 6, 1921. Primaries: Ground colour\nwhite; the costal edge, discal area from base to cleft, and inner margin broadly brown-streaked.\nA dark-brown costal streak just above the base of the cleft, connected broadly with the outer\nend of the discal streak, preceded and followed by white; another brown costal streak at the\nbase of the first lobe, then narrowly white to apex. A white spot preceding base of cleft,\nconnected obliquely by a fine white line to the outer costal white spot Second lobe brown at\ntip, faint brown line down the centre, and a small square white spot one-third from base.\nFringe smoky, darker within the cleft. Secondaries dull smoky brown, fringes darker. Expanse\n21-26 mm. Palpi mottled light brown and white. Thorax dorsally brown; anterior part,\nbuff. Abdomen light brownish-buff on anterior part, becoming almost seal-brown mottled with\nlighter on the anal segments.\nTwo specimens from Atlin; One is from the Bryant collection without date and the other\nwas taken by E. Mr Anderson on July 19th, 1914. They are both rather faded and a little worn.\nDr. Lindsey made a slide of the genitalia of the latter to ensure the identification. Barnes and\nLindsey also record a specimen from AVellington (Taylor) which is paler than typical. The\ntype series was taken at San Diego, Cal., so that the species has an extensive range; it is\nalso recorded from Arizona.\n6. Oidwmatophorus phoebus Barnes and Lindsey, Cont. Lep. No. Amer., Vol. IV., No. 4, page\n406, 1921. Primaries whitish to light tawny brown, the palest area in the second lobe and\nalong inner margin of first. Costa whitish towards base, sprinkled with blackish scales, paler\ntowards apex. Cleft preceded at a short distance by a faint dark dot. Entire wing usually\nwith some scattered black scales, tending to form streaks in the lobes and near the inner margin.\nFringes pale on costa, elsewhere brownish-grey to brownish-black, contrastingly darker than\nwing. Secondaries brownish-grey with slightly darker fringes. Expanse 21-23 mm. Head\nbrown with a whitish band between antenna?. Thorax whitish in front, becoming tawny behind.\nPalpi small, oblique, whitish, with traces of brown on third joint.\nDescribed from four specimens from various localities in California. With these the authors\nhave associated a specimen from New Westminster, which, however, is much paler than the type\nseries. Neither the date of capture nor collector's name is given. Among the material sent\nfrom Kaslo was a specimen which was different to anything else that I had seen; it was\nsubmitted to Dr. Lindsey, who pronounced it this species. It was taken by Mr.. Cockle on\nJune 22nd, 1910.\n7. Oidwmatophorus hf.lianthi AValsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 54, 1880. Primaries brownish\n\u2014white to tawny with some scattered dark-brown scales. A short distance before the cleft and\nslightly toward inner margin there is a rounded dark-brown spot, well defined, which may be\nextended as much as half-way to the costa by an oblique line of dark scales, and occasionally\nthe anterior extremity of this mark alone is evident as a spot much more vague than the first\n(this is the case in the British Columbia example before me)  apex and inner margin of first 12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 43\nlobe with a row of dark dots. Fringes concolorous, those iu cleft with dark areas just before\napices of both lobes. Secondaries grey-brown, bases paler; fringes slightly more tawny.\nExpanse 21-29 mm.\nThe only record of this species in British Columbia are some specimens taken at South Fork,\nKaslo Creek, by Air. Cockle on August 10th, 1903: Other specimens sent by Air. Cockle from\nKaslo as this species are worn specimens of occidentalis. The type series was taken in>the\nSiskiyou Alountains, South Oregon, and were bred from larva? feeding on a species of Hclianthus.\nThe species has also been taken in Colorado.\n8. Oidwmatophorus homodactylus Walker', List. Lep. Ins. Brit. AIus., XXX., 941, 1864.\nPrimaries snowy white, in some specimens with a slight irroration of brownish-grey in costal\nhalf. Cleft sometimes preceded at a short distance by a small brownish dot. Secondaries tinged\nwith greyish. Head, thorax, and abdomen snowy white. The mid-tibias have a fringe of scales\ndown the inside, but no tufts.\nIt is evidently a mountainous species in this Province, as our records are from Hope\nAlountains, July (Day and Harvey) ; Aiount AlcLean, August (Day and Hanham) ; and A'avenby,\nAugust (Aloilliet). The Mount AlcLean specimens were taken at an elevation of 5,000 feet.\nThe species occurs throughout Canada from British Columbia to Quebec, south into New Jersey\nand Illinois.    It has also been taken in California.\n9. Oidwmatophorus stramineus Walsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 41, 1880.\nLioptilus augustus Walsingham, Pter, Cal., Ore., 43, 1880.\nPrimaries usually yellow or yellowish, occasionally somewhat ochreous. There is at least\na trace of a brown spot contiguous to the base of the cleft; in some specimens this spot is well\nmarked. In most specimens a heavy brown shade runs from the base next to the inner margin\ninto the first lobe. Fringes more greyish. Secondaries greyish with fringes concolorous.\nExpanse 15-21 mm. Thorax yellow. Abdomen yellow with brown dorsal stripes. Palpi\nslender, moderate, oblique; tips of second and third joints touched with fuscous outside.\nThis is the species that is listed as stramineus in our local lists. Stramineus was described\nfrom specimens taken in the Siskiyou Alountains, South Oregon, in June, and augustus from a\nseries taken on Aiount Shasta, California, in August. The types are in the British Museum.\nAir. Edw. Aleyrick has compared specimens with the types for Alessrs. Barnes and Lindsey, and\nthe latter have also compared specimens with Fernald's paratypes and are unable to find any\nspecific differences between them. The species is very variable in appearance, due to the\ninconstancy of the brown shade on the primaries. Air. Day has taken a specimen at Quamichan\nLake, near Duncan, the only record we have for A'ancouver Island. The same collector also\ntook the species in the Hope Alountains in 1908. Mr. Cockle has it from Kaslo and Dr. Dyar\ntook a long series at Ainsworth in June and July, 1903. In his note on the species Dyar states\nthat \" The moths were easily started up from low grass and weeds, but especially from the plant\nAnaphalis margaraiacea, which I suppose is their food-plant. Larvae were found commonly in\nthe flower-heads of this plant, but unfortunately were not bred.\"\n10. Oidwmatophorus corvus Barnes and Lindsey, Cont. Lep. No. Amer., Arol. IV., No. 4, page\n437, 1921. Primaries clear pale yellow in the lightest specimens, with some brown scales near\nbase, sometimes a small brown dot a short distance before base of cleft, and sometimes a brown\nsub-costal shade which meets the costa in the first lobe. In the type series these wings have a\npale-yellowish or greyish-yellow costal band from base to a point opposite base of cleft, in which\nthe extreme costal margin bears some brown scales. Behind this the entire wing is clothed\nwith brownish-grey mixed with very pale-yellowish scales, becoming more whitish toward inner\nmargin. The spot before the cleft is faintly marked and is continued slightly toward costa to\nform a transverse shade. Costal fringes on first lobe yellowish, others dark greyish. Secondaries\nbrownish-grey fringes concolorous. In pale specimens the secondaries appear dark in contrast\nto the yellow primaries. Expanse 17-20 mm. Palpi moderate, slender, oblique, yellowish-white\nwith a brown outer line. Thorax pale yellow. Abdomen pale yellow to pale greyish-yellow with\na fine light-brown dorsal line.\nThis new species was described from twenty specimens taken at Tuolumne Aleadows and\nDeer Park Springs, Lake Tahoe, California. It has also been taken in AVashington and\nColorado.\nIt is apparently widely distributed in British Columbia, specific localities being Goldstream\n(Blackmore) ; AA'ellington (Bryant) ; Fraser Mills (Marmont) ; Kaslo (Cockle) ; and Cranbrook\n(Garrett). .\nM 44 British Columbia. 1922\nThe British Columbia specimens are very variable, both in size and in coloration. The\nAA'ellington examples are the largest, being 21-22 mm. in expanse, with the dark shades con-\n. trasting with the paler areas, which are a deep cream. A series from Goldstream average\n18 mm. in expanse and are very pale, the ground colour being a sordid white, with the brown\nspot before cleft distinctly marked. Those from Fraser Mills are similar, but not quite so pale.\nSome Kaslo specimens are as pale as my Goldstream series, but a trifle smaller, although one\nspecimen is larger than any, measuring 23 nun., and in addition is very much darker, the ground\ncolour being dark brown. Dr. Lindsey has seen this specimen and pronounced it corvus, believing\nthat the brown colour is due to age or some other cause.    It was taken on June 20th, 1904.\nThe life-history and food-plant are unknown, although the series which I took at Goldstream\nin August, 1920, were all beaten from the common yarrow (Achillia millefolium), which may\nbe its food-plant.    I did not observe it on any other plant.\n11. Oidwmatophorus monodactylus Linnosus, Syst Nat. (Ed. 10), page 542, 1758.. The\ncolour of the primaries is very variable, ranging through shades of grey, yellow, and brown to\nvarious mixtures of these colours. The fore wings are very narrow, but have unusually long\nfringes at the anal angle of the second lobe. There is a black spot before base of cleft, sometimes extended to it, a dot in cell, some at tips of veins in both lobes, and some black scales\nstreaking the wing near inner margin. Secondaries and fringes of both wings brownish-grey.\nExpanse 2.1-28 mm. Thorax similar to primaries. Abdomen brownish or greyish with some\ndark dashes, and a narrow dorsal stripe concolorous with thorax, which widens anteriorly and\nis usually margined with white toward its junction with the thorax. There is usually a crest of\nscales present on the upper surface of the hind tarsi.\nThis is our commonest species on Vancouver Island and it has been taken in every month of\nthe year. The most common coloration\" is tawny, with a sprinkling of grey forms and a few\nred-brown ones. I have not seen any specimens from the Alainland, which is rather surprising,\nas it occurs right across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Alexico to\nCanada. It also occurs in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. It feeds on a large number of\ndifferent food-plants.\nThe following eight species recorded in the 1906 B.C. Check-list are omitted from this paper\nfor the reasons given:\u2014\nTrichoptilus lobidactylus Fitch. Recorded from AVellington. I have examined the specimens\nlabelled as this species in the Bryant collection and from which the records were taken for the\nabove list, and find that they are all Pterophorus delawaricus Zeller without a doubt.\nOxyptilus (Pterophorus) periscelidactylus Fitch. Recorded from Wellington. The specimens labelled as such in the Bryant collection are Platyptilia punctidactyla Haw.\nPlatyptilia shastw Wals. Becorded from Wellington. This was rather an extraordinary\ndetermination, as specimens bearing this label were undoubtedly Oidwmatophorus cinerac.eus\nFish.    A totally different insect and bearing no resemblance, either genericaily or specifically.\nPlatyptilia grandis AVals. and Platyptilia modesta AA'als. Both recorded from Wellington.\nSpecimens bearing these labels were nothing more or less than specimens of the common\ncarduidactyla, which had apparently been separated according to their size; the latter species\nbeing very variable in this respect, as I have specimens ranging from 18 to 28 mm. in expanse.\nPterophorus (Oidwmatophorus) brucci Fern. Becorded from Shawnigan Lake by Dr. Dyar\nin his \"Kootenai List.\" In his annotation he states: \"Two specimens .... in poor\ncondition, but seeming to agree with specimens from Colorado, so named for me by Dr. C. H.\nFernald.\"\nI am rather inclined to doubt the correctness of Dr. Dyar's determination of this species on\nthe following grounds: (1) That brucci Fern, and mathewianus Zell. have a somewhat superficial resemblance; (2) that Dr. Dyar's specimens were in poor condition and he himself was\nnot positive that they were conspeciflc with his Colorado specimens of brucei; (3) that\napparently Dr. Dyar did not have at that time specimens of mathewianus for comparison; (4)\nthat specimens sent to me by Air. Cockle, of Kaslo, as brucei have been determined by Dr. Lindsey\nas mathewianus; and (5) that of 250 specimens of this family recently examined from\nmany diverse localities in the Province, not a single specimen turned up which has been even\ndoubtfully referred to brucei. Taking all these facts into consideration, it is more reasonable\nto suppose that Dr. Dyar's specimens were in reality mathewianus, which was originally described 12 Geo. 5 Provincial Museum Report. M 45\nfrom A'ancouver Island. Until undoubted specimens of brucei are taken in British Columbia I\nthink it is better to eliminate this species from our B.C. Check-list\nPterophorus (Oidwmatophorus) paleaceus Zell. Recorded from AVellington. Specimens\nunder this name in the Bryant collection did not seem to agree with the description of that\nspecies and were submitted to Dr. Lindsey, who pronounced them to be \" rather large specimens\nof corvus B. & L., not quite typical, but certainly not paleaceus Zell.\"\nPterophorus (Oidwmatophorus) eupatorii Fern. This record in our list was copied from\nDyar's Catalogue (Bull. 52, U.S.N.AL), wherein he gives A'ancouver Island, together with New\nYork and California, as localities for this species. Barnes and Lindsey in their \" Revision \" give\na detailed discussion of eupatorii Fern., guttatus AVals., and mathewianus Zell., three very closely\nallied species and which have given rise to a great deal of confusion in the past. The conclusions\narrived at show that eupatorii is distinctly Eastern and does not occur on the Pacific slope.\nIn concluding this paper on the British Columbia Pterophoridae, I would like to point out\ntwo important pieces of biological work that remain for our local entomologists to undertake,\nand that is the working-out of the life-histories of (1) Platyptilia pallidactyla Haw. and pica\nWals., and (2) P. carduidactyla Biley and percnodactyla Wals. Careful breeding from the ova\nof known females, full notes on the different larval instars, together with careful comparison of\nthe resulting imagines, will do much to prove the specific identity or otherwise of the species\nindicated.\nThe following family, with its one North American species, is included here as it is so very\nclosely allied to the Pterophorida!.\nFAMILY   ALUCITIDAE   LINN.\nGenus ALUC1TA  Linn.\nAlucita Linnaeus, Syst Nat (Ed. X.), 1, 542, 1758.\nOrneodes Latreille, Precis. Car. Ins. 148, 1796.\nCharacters: Ocelli present. Proboscis well developed. Labial palpi strong. Both primaries\nand secondaries deeply cleft into six lobes each. The under-surface of the secondaries lacks\nthe black scales which occur in the Pterophoridae, and the legs are of normal length.\n1. Alucita Montana Cockerell, Ent Alo. Mag., XXA^., 213, 1889.\nOrneodes hexadactyla Fernald (not Linn.), List Lep. No. .Amer., 88, 1891.\nPrimaries greyish-tawny, crossed by a wide dark-brown median band margined narrowly\nwith white, which forks on the first two lobes; a subterminal band, narrower on the first two\nlobes, is also margined with white.    Secondaries checkered with dark brown, tawny, and white.\nThis species is the Orneodoes hexadactyla of our local lists, a European species with which\nour North American species has generally been considered conspecific, but according to Barnes\nand Lindsey hexadactyla is much lighter and more ochreous in general appearance and entirely\nlacks pure white scales.\nMontana has a wide distribution in North America, occurring from Vancouver Island to\nOntario and from New York to California.\nList of Preferences.\n1921. Barnes, W.,  and Lindsey, A. AV.    The Pterophoridae of America,  North of  Alexico\n(Cont Lep. No. Amer., Vol. IA'., No. 4).\n.'    1902. Dyar, H. G.    List of North American Lepidoptera  (Bull. 52, U.S. National System).\n1904. Dyar, II. G.    The Lepidoptera of the Kootenai District of British Columbia   (Pro.\nU.S.N.AL, pages 779-938).\n1895. Aleyrick, Edw.    Handbook of British Lepidoptera.\n1910. Aleyrick, Edw.    Fam. Pterophoridae (Genera Insectorum Fasc, 100).\n1913. Meyrick, Edw.    Exotic Alicrolepidoptera, A'ol. I., Pt. 4, page 112.\nVICTORIA,   B.C.\nPrinted by William H.  Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.\n1922. 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