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iitoittolojitst. 



Vol. XLIII. 



LONDON, DECEMBER, 191 1, 



No. 12 



FURTHER NOTES ON ALBERTA LEPIDOPTERA. 



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

 (Continued from page 369.) 



267. [Euxoa Jiesiiens Smith. — This appears to be merely a variation of 

 tristicula Morr. (No. 275 of this list, q. v.) J 



268. E. ochrogdster Guen. — In my former notes I tabulated the 

 variations of this species under four headings : 



1. Ground colour red. {Ochrogaster Guen.) 



I a. Ground colour red, with black basal streak, claviform and 

 discoidal ceil. [Gnlaris Grt.) Hampson's figure appears to be of the 

 type o( gu/aris, a male from "U. S. A ," though the figure is a little too 

 dark. 



2. Ground colour ochreous. This is the Agroiis i?isignata described 

 by Walker in his Catalogue, Vol. X, p. 33c, 1856. Assuming that the 

 type labels on the specimens in the British Museum are correct, this must 

 not be confused with Agrotis insignata described by Walker on page 353 

 of the same volume, which specimen he described again a year later as 

 illata, the latter double type being a specimen of tessellata. The two 

 ifisignata have not unnaturally been much confused in literature, and 

 Grote claimed that Walker himself had identified Hadena suffusca Morr. 

 with his illata^ and that the description oi illata, which I have not seen, 

 might apply thereto. He often called the validity of Walker's types in 

 question, as well he might, knowing that author's slipshod methods. 

 Howsoever, the existing "type" of Agrotis insignata Walk., X, 330, 1856, 

 is a badly rubbed, pale, washed out, reddish-ochreous female from Nova 

 Scotia of the species at present under discussion, and is erroneously 

 referred to by Hampson as a prior name to pleuritica Grote, the type of 

 which he figures under Walker's name. Prof. Smith makes the correction 

 in Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XV,' 143, 1907. He states elsewhere that 

 Morrison's ci?iereo7nacula is the same form. 



2a. Ground colour ochreous, with black markings present. {Turris 

 Grt.) The type oiturris in the British Museum is a female from "U. S. 



