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A LIST OF MANITOBA MOTHS. 



BY A. W. HANHAM, WINNIPEG, MAN. 



The following list of Manitoba species, it is hoped, will prove of 

 interest to readers of the Canadian Entomologist : 



With a few exceptions, the records are from my own observations 

 and captures. The list covers the work or collecting of three whole 

 seasons and the latter half of a fourth ; and it is to a great extent a local 

 one, very little collecting having been done outside of the Winnipeg 

 district. 



Last season (1896), in July, and again this year, in August, I was 

 fortunate in being able to visit Brandon, Man. — some 130 miles west of 

 Winnipeg — where, especially during my first visit in July, I enjoyed some 

 very successful collecting, and I am thus enabled to add a considerable 

 number of things to my list, many of them very desirable species, 



I believe a comparison of collections made at Brandon and at 

 Winnipeg would show some striking differences, many of the Western 

 forms occurring at Brandon not reaching so far east as Winnipeg. This 

 district embraces some open " rolling " prairie, a good deal of swampy 

 land covered with willow and other bushes, plenty of thick " bush " 

 containing no trees of any size, a little fine timber, mostly elm, along the 

 river " bottoms," and a gravel ridge many miles in extent, more or less 

 wooded, with some sandy tracts, commencing at Bird's Hill, some eight 

 miles from this city. 



The last described locality much resembles the general run of 

 country around Brandon, and after Elm Park, situated in a bend of the 

 Red River, about three miles out of Winnipeg, is much the richest 

 collecting ground within the district. The Province of Manitoba con- 

 tains numerous lakes, some of vast area, as Lakes Winnipeg and Mani- 

 toba ; none, however, come within this district, nor have any yet been 

 visited. 



The list of Sphingidse is but a meagre one, and I think hardly 

 representative of the district ; certainly not of Manitoba as a whole. 

 Nearly fifty per cent, of the Bombycidaj recorded were added this year, 

 and they were, without exception, taken "at light," at the end of June 

 and during July. But for this my list in these loo would have been 

 equally poor. 



