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FURTHER NOTES ON ALBERTA LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY F. H. WOLLEY DOD, MILLARVILLE, ALTA. 

 (Continued from p. 156.) 



150. Hadejia i?idocilis Walker. — The type is a female in the British 

 ^Museum, and, according to the Catalogue, comes from Trenton Falls, 

 N. Y. I have a New York female in my own collection, and Calgary 

 specimens scarcely differ. It is the species standing in North American 

 lists as remissa Hubn., which name refers to a variety, rather common in 

 Europe, of a European species, well known as gemi?ia Hbn., to which, 

 however, Sir George Hampson, makes obsciira Haw. a prior name, mak- 

 ing remissa "ab. 2" and submissa "ab. i," and apparently about inter- 

 mediate. For further notes on these forms, vide under ferens and e?iigra 

 (infra). 



151. H. alia G len. has priority over siiffusca Morr., as pointed out 

 by me in Cax. Exr., XLH, 190, June, 19 10. Sir George Hampson 

 makes the change in his Catalogue, Vol. IX, p. 500, antedating my remarks 

 by about two months, though the volume had not appeared when I wrote 

 them. 



152. H. rorulenta Smith. — Sir George Hampson, after his description 

 of this form, adds, "This is probably an aberration of suffiiscaT The 

 type oi suffusca I have not yet seen, and do not know to just what form it 

 refers, but alia type is a somewhat reddish specimen of the even, non- 

 contrasting form I had listed as suffusca. Ronilenta is very likely the 

 same species. At any rate, I know nothing to make me wish to disagree 

 with the suggestion, though I happen to possess no exact intergrades. 



154. H. cofiti'adida Smith. — Sir George Hampson creates a new 

 genus, Trichoplexia, to receive this species and exornata Moschler. Of 

 contradicta he gives a very good woodcut, showing the tuftings, and of a 

 Labrador specimen under exornata he gives a coloured figure. I have no 

 note that I compared the figure with the specimen, but should judge it to 

 be misleading, as my note on the species says, "Suffused, and without 

 black lines, but probably the same as contradicta,'' of which there were 

 two Calgary males in the collection. I certainly should not have made 

 the suggestion from the figure alone. Prof. Smith has five males in his 

 collection from Newfoundland, one of them labelled Grand Lake, under 

 exor7iata, which seemed to me probably a rather suffused form of 

 contradicta. The ""exoriiatd" of the Washington collection is a female 

 from Colorado, and is certainly not contradicta or closely allied thereto. 



July. 1911 



