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Vol. XLIII. LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1911. No. 11 



FURTHER NOTES ON ALBERTA LEPIDOPTERA. 



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

 (Continued from pag-e 339.) 



248. Euxoa vallus Smith. — The type from Laggan is a female, and 

 not a male as I stated in my previous notes. Besides that, I have seen a 

 female taken here on Oct. 5th, 1907, now in my collection, and a male 

 taken by Mr. Sanson at Banff on Sept. 8th, 1909. This appears to be a 

 valid species, so far as I can judge. After seeing my own female and the 

 type, I had supposed them to be large suffused specimens of vulpina^ 

 but Mr. Sanson's male made me change my opinion. 



249. E. pesttila Smith is, I have been very much surprised to find, 

 the correct name for what I had listed as pleuritica. Prof. Smith has a 

 pair of types in his collection from Calgary, and the rest of his series under 

 the name when I saw his collection were the same species. But most 

 unfortunately all five co-types which Prof. Smith sent me when he described 

 it, along with several others bearing his o\fn pestula label, 2.xt. focinus, or 

 at any rate of that group, which accounts for my confusion oi pestiila with 



fociniis (XXXVII, p. 60, 1905). There is a resemblance between certain 

 specimens, but their distinctness is unquestionable. My comparison of 

 this species with messoria holds good. 



Sir George Hampson figures Grote's male \.y\)Qo^ pieuriiica under the 

 erroneous name of ifisigtiata Walker. This i?isiguaia of Walker's is a 

 rubbed female from Nova Scotia, but is easily recognizable as ochrogaster 

 Guen., as pointed out by Prof Smith in Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XV, 143, 

 1907. My likeness oi pestida to Hampson's figure is quite justified 

 (XXXVII, 56), but I fear I must retract the statement that it is " without 

 doubt" the same, as, though closely allied, I believe them to be distinct. 

 As it happens, the figure is a bit more variegated than the specimens, and 

 too ochreous, and the pale gray shades on costa and inner margin are 

 exaggerated. I should probably s\is\>tcX. pesiula of being p/eurifica, were 

 it not that I believe I recognize the latter in another very closely allied 

 species occurring here, to be treated of under additions. 



