2S THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Described from material from Manitoba, Vancouver Island and Colorado. 

 The type, figured in Can. Ent., XXXII., No. 8, PI. 5, is from Brandon, 

 Man., and is in the U. S. National collection at Washington. Said to be 

 intermediate between eastern hartispica and western sierrce. In his 

 description Frof. Smith says : " In size the new species averages less 

 than haruspica, and the colour is, as a whole, more even smoky, with less 

 red. The ordinary spots are somewhat better relieved, while the median 

 lines tend to become broken and incomplete, while yet the detached parts 

 may be well marked." I have one ? sent me from the States as 

 haruspica without data, and four fine specimens from Mr. C. H. Young, 

 of Hurdman's Bridge, Ont., which Dr. Fletcher tells me are typical 

 eastern haruspica. The U. S. specimen differs from the Calgary form in 

 accordance with Prof. Smith's remarks, except that some of my inopinatus 

 are much redder, and whilst a series of forty specimens from Calgary and 

 Cartwright, Man., collectively differs from the four Ottawa specimens in 

 like manner, if the two series were mixed, I certainly could not 

 distinguish them without the labels. In his notes to me recently Prof. 

 Smith said : " It is quite possible that we have to do with races instead 

 of final species." To my mind the extremes in my two series overlap in 

 the different characters in such a way as to obviate any suggestion of two 

 species. I sent one of my reddest specimens to Sir Geo. Hampson, who 

 said : " I should call it sierrce." He recognizes both species, however, 

 and has both from Colorado in the British Museum. Sierrce, which I 

 have never seen, was described from California, where. Prof. Smith tells 

 me, inopinatus is probably not found. 



217. N. clemens, Smith. — Four specimens. One June 20th, 1901; the 

 other three at light, on May 31st, 1902. Prof. Smith says that Colorado 

 specimens are a little larger. The species bears some resemblance lo 

 Chorizagrotis balanitis, in mistake for which Mr. Hudson thinks he may 

 have passed it over. 



218. N. clandestina, Harris. — Generally the commonest noctuid, 

 often extremely abundant. A great frequenter of buildings, particularly 

 if built of logs. On some nights during hot seasons they are a bad pest 

 in houses. I used to think they were attracted thither entirely by lamps, 

 but though they certainly swarm round a light, their presence in the rooms 

 seems to be to some extent accidental. I have seen them in hundreds in 

 a room before tlie lamps have been lighted, where the night before there 

 were few or none to be seen. They appear to creep into cracks and 

 crannies from the outside to pass the daytime, and a large number of them 

 come out at dusk on the inside. Fortunately, they do not, as a rule, 

 come very freely to treacle. I have bred very few from " cutworm " larvae. 

 End June to August, (To be continued.) 



