330 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



2 10. N. calgary Smiih. — I am not in a posilion to make the reference 

 at present, but it seems to me not improbable that this will prove identical 

 with esurialis Grote, which certainly has no nearer ally known to me on 

 this continent. The type of the latter is a male in the British Museum 

 from Washington State, and is a good specimen, except that it lacks 

 antenr?e. It is well figured by Hampson, only the specimen is really a 

 bit more even in colour, and the obrqiie orbicular a little more open. 

 There are no other specimens in the collection under the name. 



Esuria/is\\2iS at times been associated with ho\.\\ jucu7i da and rosaria. 

 Both these associations I seem able to explain. There are, in the British 

 Museum, three Anticosti specimens which have long been associated with 

 Jucunda, and which are referred to by the late J. W. Tutt in "British 

 Noctuai and Their Varieties" (IV, p. t6 of the introduction). These 

 specimens I should call calgary, as well as a male in the same series 

 labelled " U. S. A., Grote collection." Calgary, too, has often been 

 confused with losaria, as witness my own confusion in former days, and 

 Sir George Hampson's more recently. In the "Kootenai List" Dr. Dyar 

 seems to suggest that esurialis is rosaria. What he had for comparison 

 as true esurialis I do not exactly know, but it was probably a confusion of 

 rosaria with calgary over again. I have no note of having anywhere 

 seen calgary from Kaslo, though it probably will be found there. But 

 esurialis is not rosaria. In the Washington collection I found about a 

 dozen specimens standing under Pachiiobia car?iea, from Popoff Islands, 

 AUska (July i6th, 1899), which seemed to me to be Noctua calgary, one 

 of which was almost exactly like Hampson's figure of the type esurialis. 



211. N. dislocata Smith. — More of this species have come to hand, 

 including females that I feel quite certain of, though only one of this sex 

 now remains in my own collection. I feel convinced of its distinctness 

 from calgary, and cannot improve upon my former diagnosis of the species. 

 But Prof. Smith's $ type happens to be calgary, as I had supposed, the 

 male alone holding good. Dislocata appears to occur in Europe, as I 

 have a pair from Northern Finland which differs very slightly from some 

 Calgary specimens in being smaller and browner, and having duller 

 secondaries. They were received from Mr. Prout as ^'/estiva, var. conjiua 

 Treit.," but do not agree very well with Treitshke's description as copied 

 by Tutt (Brit. Noct., II, 122), or Barrett (Lep. Brit. Isles, IV, 76). 

 Hampson lists couflua as an aberration oif estiva, "smaller, grayer, duller, 



