370 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The particular reason which induced me to look up this matter is 

 that I found among specimens sent me for determination by ray good 

 friend and the prince of good fellows, Dr. James Fletcher, a specimen of 

 what appeared to be sn Annaphila, which fitted nowhere, and was 

 sufficiently odd m appearance to induce me to examine it more closely. 

 To my surprise I found it a Brenhid, utterly unlike any other of our 

 species, an.d because there is only one, and I know no other like it, I 

 call it 



Brephos Fletcheri, n. sp. 



Head and body totally black. Primaries sooty-black, with a vague 

 trace of pale marginal and submarginal bands. The fringe is gray, with a 

 black interline. Secondaries yellow, with a rather narrow black border, 

 the inner margin of which is irregular, and a basal bhck area which 

 extends from one-third the costal margin diagonally to the inner margin 

 just above the anal angle, and does not quite join the outer black border. 

 Beneath yellow ; primaries with blackish marginal borders and an oblique 

 black median fascia ; secondaries with a minute black discai mark, a 

 subbasal narrow blackish band and a narrow blackish terminal band much 

 like that of upper side. Legs black, tarsi white-ringed at the joints ; hair 

 of under side grayish. 



Expands: i inch = 25 mm. 



Habitat : Coldstream, British Columbia, March 23 ; taken by Mr. E. 

 M. Anderson. Numbered 1 and 13. 



The interesting notes on the distribution of Leucobrephos Middendorfi 

 by Dr. Fletcher in the Ottawa Naturalist, induced me to inquire wjiy 

 brephoides, Wlk., was no longer found, tiiough both Zeller and Grote had 

 obtained (and redescribed) the species. 



Dr. Fletcher's reference to the species was based on my determination, 

 and my determination was based on Moeschler's work and his record in 

 the Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1883, 117. I was in correspondence with Mr. 

 Moeschler at that time, and he was good enough to send me an example 

 of the Labrador material for study. Before I returned it I secured an 

 excellent photograph, which for many years was the only representative of 

 the species in my collection. Through Dr. Fletcher I finally secured an 

 example of Mr. Griddle's capture from Aweme, and that might easily have 

 been the original of the photograph made from Moeschler's examjjle. It 

 was Middendorfi, Moeschler, without doubt ; but was it Middendorfi, 

 Menetries? Moeschler in his work speaks positively enough : " Of this 



