Vol. XLVII. LONDON. JANUARY, 1915 No. 1 



FURTHER NOTES ON ALBERTA LEPIDOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. 



BY F. H. WOLLEY DOD, MIDNAPORE, ALTA, 

 (Continued from Vol. XLVI, p. 403.) 



603. Hadena violacea Grt. — A specimen taken at Banfif on 

 Sept 20th, 1901, by Mr. Sanson. I have also a few British 

 Columbia records. 



604. Hyppa indistincta Sm. — I took a female at light at the 

 Laggan Chalet on July 18th, 1907. It agrees with the figures and 

 description of the female type from Mt. Hood, Oregon, which I have 

 seen in the Brooklyn Museum. This was stated to be a male in the 

 description. I have a similar female from Kaslo, and have seen 

 others in Mr. Cockle's collection. Dr. Dyar records the species as 

 indistincta in the Kootenai List, but suggests that both hrunnei- 

 crista Smith and rectilinea Dyar (not Esper), from Alaska, are the 

 same thing. 



As to the distinctness of hrunneicrista I have little doubt. 

 Indistincta wholly lacks the rusty fulvous marks characteristic of 

 that species, and the terminal line in both my specimens is slightly 

 angulated in the submedian interspace, where it is preceded by a 

 blackish crescent-shaped cloud edged with a few chocolate brown 

 scales of the same shade as the lower portion of the median area. 

 In this respect it resembles xyUnoides rather than brunneicrista, 

 which lacks the black crescent-shaped cloud in the submedian in- 

 terspace, in which the rusty fulvous shade is paler than any of the 

 brown shades on the wing. The angle, however, does not seem 

 obvious in Smith's figure, and may be variable. The maculation 

 of indistincta is, as its name implies, less distinct than in the others, 

 and the general colour more dull and even, without the contrast- 

 ing white. In my Laggan specimen the black line on the collar is 

 incomplete centrally, but in the Kaslo example the collar is dam- 

 aged. No such line is referred to in the description. The wing 

 form is that of brunneicrista, and shorter than xylinoides. 



