832 THK CANADIAN KNTOMOLOOI8T. 



sheen ; hairs less abundant, placed principally along veins and beneath 

 cell. Fringes long, silken, same colour as primaries. 



Beneath as above in colour, a shade paler and slightly glossy, the 

 hairs less numerous, chiefly along costal region of primaries. No markings 

 except the difTuse, dusky, discal dot on primaries. Body and legs of the 

 same colour, the fore and middle femora rather heavily clothed with black 

 scales in front. 



The type male, one of several taken in April at Walters' .Station, 

 Calif, is in the author's collection, Co-types from the same locality will 

 be jtlaced in the Rutgers College collection and the U. S. Nat. 

 Museum. A single co-type recently received from San Diego, Calif, 

 taken April lolh, 19 lo, is almost worthy of varietal distinction. This 

 example is smaller, only 25 mm. expanse, the wings are more rounded at 

 apices, so thin in texture that the label beneath can be read through ihein, 

 and the exlradiscal line runs closer to discal dot. 



(To be continued.) 



BASILONA nfPERIALlS l)RUR\. 



On June 26th last, a fine male specimen of this handsome moih 

 was taken by Mr. W. H. CI. (iarrioch, at an arc light near his residence, on 

 Front street, Hull. He had taken a like sjiecimen a few night previously 

 at the same place. Hoih specimens were brought to me while they were 

 yet alive, and I have set them up. As far as 7 know, these captures 0/ 

 B. imperialis are the first recorded for the Province of Quebec. 



Mr. Arthur Gibson has given me permission to add to this note the 

 following statement : " I, too, have a record of three specimens occurring 

 at the electric light here on the Farm, viz. : on June 22, I saw the upper 

 wing of a specimen lying on the grass, near an electric light ; on June 

 24lh a male was taken at the electric light, by one of the working men on 

 the Farm, and brought to me for identiftc.ition, and, on June 26tli, 

 another male was captured on the Farm by another employee." 



The Central Experimental Farm is on the Ontario side of the River 



Ottawa, a few miles from Hull ; and, as there is much young pine growing 



on the banks of the river, it is |)robable that B. imperialis has adopted 



the neighborhood as one of its habitats. 



Thomas W. Fvles. 



Hull, p. (^) , July 19th, 1910. 



