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outer edge, and the middle tibiis with faint indications of an apical yellow 

 spot j abdomen very broad, black wiih yellow bands, that on first segment 

 broadly interrupted, on second to fourth broad at sides, and narrowed or 

 slightly interrupted in the middle, on fourth notched behind laterally; 

 fifth segment yellow, with the base, and a round spot on each side, black ; 

 venter dark reddish, irregularly banded with lighter, and with a little 

 yellow. 



Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 21, 1903. (Dr. S. Graenicher.) By 

 the posterior notching of the fourth abdominal band, it resembles A' vidua, 

 which is otherwise different. It differs from typical N. sphaerogasier 

 (Proc. Phila. Acad., 1903, p. 611) by its ferruginous tegulae, and some 

 slight details of the markings, but I feel assured that it is conspecific. If 

 the difference should prove constant in a long series, it ought to have a 

 distinct name. 



NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE YEAR 1904. 



BY E. FIRMSTONE HEATH, CARTWRIGHT, MANITOBA. 



The spring here was an unusually cold and late one, and it was not 

 until April 17th that I saw a moth of any description, and that " fir^t 

 svvallow " was only a Depressaria Canadensis, Busck. I did not see a 

 single specimen of Leucobrephos Middendorfi, Men., though an April 

 seldom goes by without my doing so, and generally at some awkward 

 moment when no net is handy. Year before last I was repotting some 

 plants on the sunny side of my house, when a Leucobrephos flew against 

 me, dropped at my feet, and was off again before I could pot it. 



It was not until April 28th that I noticed any Noctuids flying at 

 sunset, and that night, and during two or three subsequent ones, I took a 

 nice series of Tseniocampas at my sugared trees, chiefly T. alia, Guen.. 

 with a few sicbterminate, Smith, and one or two pacifica, Harv. There 

 was also the usual sprinkling of hibernating species, among which the 

 most notable capture was a Scopelosoma devia, Grote. 



The weather then became cold again, and it was not till quite the end 

 of May that moths were once more in evidence. Currant bloom — the 

 wild black and the garden varieties — usually very productive, this year 

 proved a blank. Throughout the summer all butterflies and moths were 

 far less numerous than usual, and yet I made a few notable captures ot 

 species which I had not previously taken, or which are always rare. As 

 their names will appear in Dr. Fletcher's " Record," I need not ie[)eat 

 them here. 



