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FURTHER NOTES ON ALBERTA LEPIDOPTERA. 



BV' F. H. WOLLEY DOD, MILLARVILLE, ALBERTA. 

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170. H. sora Smith. — Vide notes under previous species. Banff, 

 July i6lh to 22nd, several specimens, from Mr. N. B. Sanson. The 

 difference in dates of the Banff specimens is evidence in favour of distinct- 

 ness of this form from No. 169. My remarks concerning aura?iticoior in 

 my original note on this species (XXXVII, p. 21, 1905) should be 

 disregarded. 



171. H. ?nonta?ia Smith appears to be the correct name for this 

 species, which is sometimes a day-flier at snowberry flowers on the 

 prairies. Montana was described from Colorado as a probable variety of 

 inordinata, and stands as a variety in Smith's Catalogue and Check List, 

 and as '' ab. 2 " of that species in Hampson. Prof. Smith states that his 

 type is in the Washington Museum. The specimen there bearing the 

 Museum " type " red label is marked " ? Type " on another label, and 

 comes from Platte Canyon, Colo. A Denver, Colo., specimen in my own 

 collection is exactly like some of my local series. Inordinata was 

 described from Massachusetts, and most eastern specimens that I have 

 seen are darker, and have maculation much more distinctly cut and con- 

 trasting, and have a somewhat strigate appearance. Some Colorado 

 specimens that I saw in Prof. Smith's collection appeared about 

 intermediate, so I do not wish to challenge the specific reference. But the 

 only eastern specimen in my collection, from Stonnington, Conn., differs 

 from my Colorado and local series much more than many eastern and 

 western forms do from each other w^hich are claimed to be good species. 

 Hampson's figure seemed to me to be too even and brown for any 

 specimen that I compared with it in the British Museum, but Massachusetts 

 is given as the locality in the key to the plate. Except in having a 

 distinct postmedial line on secondaries, it much more nearly resembles 

 mofitana than most eastern specimens that I recollect having seen. 



The type of semilunata Grote is a female in the British Museum 

 from Washington Territory. It is grayer and more suffused than any of 

 the specimens above mentioned, and lacks the reddish brown shades on 

 primaries. My notes indicate that I thought it very probable that it might 

 be a smoky dark female of ifiordmaia. But a female from Washington 

 stood under semihinaia in the New York Museum, mixed with montana, 

 which I noted was " dark, suffused, even and distinct " (/. <?., from 



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