THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



North America. Perhaps it is this species (C. Nebraska) that has led 

 Mr. Strecker (who has shown himself on other occasions to be inexact) 

 to record " C. nupta " as being found in North America. I will remark 

 here that Mr. Strecker's statement that the Californian species of Nemo- 

 phila are identical with the European Russuia, is contradicted by their 

 description as distinct by Dr. Boisduval, who should be well acquainted 

 with the variations of the European form. The statement that EupsycJwma 

 geometrica is the exact equivalent of Mr. Walker's N. petrosa. made by 

 Mr. Strecker, is erroneous, and is probably a careless rendering 

 of Dr. Packard's previous statement that the two were probably forms of 

 the same species. In geometrica the hind wings are entirely black; in 

 petrosa (the type of which I saw in the British Museum) the hind wings, 

 are white or yellowish, with black markings. In my opinion it will 

 eventuate that we have several species of Nemophila in our Western 

 regions, none of them identical with plantaginis, and probably some of 

 them (i. e. Eupsychoma geometrica) to be distinguished structurally, and 

 therefore generically from caespitis and eichor ii and plantaginis. 



CAPTURES OF NOCTUID^ AT ST. CATHARINES, ONT. 



BY GEO. NORMAN, ST. CATHARINES, ONT. 



In the spring of this year I commenced collecting the Nvetuce of this 

 part of Canada, and in the hope that a list of my captures, with the dates 

 of appearance, may be of interest, I venture to send the same for 

 publication. 



Being a stranger to the insect fauna of N. America, and in the absence 

 of anything like a manual of the Heterocera, I should, even with the 

 assistance of the Brit. Mus. Catalogues and Guenee's work, have had 

 great difficulty in identifying my specimens. Fortunately this difficulty 

 was removed by Mr. Grote, of Buffalo, who, in the kindest manner, has 

 from time to time named my material. For this courteous assistance I 

 am under lasting obligations. I have thought it advisable not in all cases 

 to adopt the genera of Mr. Grote's " List of N. American Noctuidae," for 

 in the unsettled state of nomenclature at present existing, I prefer the 

 arrangement of M. Guenee'. This I, moreover do, for reasons not neces- 



