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PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF 



ALBERTA, N.-W. T. 



BY F. H. WOLLEV DOD, MILLARVILLE, ALTA., N.-W. T. 



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 (339. Lejicania anterodara). — Specific characters in this genus are 

 often by no means strongly marked, and though they may be on the whole 

 fairly constant, are, as Prof. Smith expresses it in the " Revision," hard to 

 locate in words. Anterodara seems to be, at any rate, a pretty well 

 marked form, but when its range of variation in this locality is known, 

 specimens are to be found closely approximating no less than six different 

 species, or, at any rate, forms standing under six different specific names, 

 VIZ.: commoidcs, imiltilinea {C!i\gSiXy iorm), phragmitidicola, Calgariana, 

 farda and roseola. I have good series of all of these except farda, and 

 have made very careful comparisons. It is only the very darkest speci- 

 mens, and most of those '^ 9 ^ that are really at all like commoides, but the 

 darkest streakings are never really black as in that species, the upper 

 margin of median vein not dark bordered, and the secondaries never as 

 dark either. F'rom eastern multilinea the darker secondaries separate it 

 at once, and the differences from '^hat I call the Calgary form of that 

 species are discussed under that head. Viewed as a series, it is less like 

 phragmitidicola than Prof. Smith's comparisons had led me to suppose. 

 Of this I have critically examined about a hundred specimens from various 

 parts of the continent, including a few from Texas, a V from Aweme, Man., 

 and another from Utah. The dark bordering above median vein men- 

 tioned in the " Revision " I find rarely prominent, frequently lacking, and 

 with the exception of the pale median vein and the dark bordering below 

 it, this species is as a whole more even in colour and not more streaky than 

 some of my darkest anterodara. Ajiterodara varies from pale luteous, or 

 creamy-yellow to a pale oak-brown. Phragmitidicola has much the same 

 shade as a base, but is always washed throughout with a faint, uniform, pale 

 brick-red or fawn-brown, which anterodara lacks, and has usually a sparse 

 sprinkling of blackish or dark grayish scales as well. The t. p. line in 

 anterodara when present is reduced to dots on veins 2 and 5, but very 

 occasionally faintly traceable throughout. In phragmitidicola it is more 

 often traceable by dots about equally prominent on veins i to 6, but may 

 occasionally in the very palest s):)ecimens, which ."^eem to come very near 

 farcta, be obsolete. The secondaries in phragmitidicola are much whiter 

 than in anterodara, and are more like the local form o( multilinea, but if 



June, 1905. 



