THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I have examined the Alaskan spacimens in the Washington 

 Museum, which were referred to rectilinea by Dyar. I should call 

 them indistincta. Of the five specimens, only one is a male, and 

 that lacks antennc'e. That is most unfortunate, as I have seen no 

 other male which I could call indistincta, and the other three North 

 American Hyppas, which include the No. 177 of my Calgary list, 

 are separable from each other by male antennae. European 

 rectilinea is nearest my No. 177 on both antennal and other 

 characters. 



605. Helotropha reniformis* Grt.— Taken at High River by 

 Mr. Thomas Baird, in 1912. 



606. Momaphana comstocki Grt. — A fine male, taken, I 

 think, on an electric light pole at Edmonton on May 13th, 1914, by 

 Mr. Valentine Fernekes, to whose generosity I am indebted for the 

 specimen. The type in the British Museum is a much worn male 

 from New York, and there is also a good female there from Orillia, 

 Ont. Hampson gives a wood-cut of the type, but the black 

 markings there shown are too numerous and too intense. Making 

 allowance for that, the Edmonton specimen agrees so well, with the 

 wood-cut, Hampson's description, and my notes, as to make me 

 feel confident in the determination. Another type is said to be in 

 the Cornell University at Ithaca, N. Y. The species appears to be 

 very rare everywhere. 



A species which has for many years passed under this name 

 in B. C. collections, was described as Feralia columhiana by Smith 

 in Can. Ent., XXXV, p. 9, Jan., 1903, from two males, one from 

 New Westminster, B.C., from Dr. Fletcher, and the other from 

 "North West Territory," from Dr. Ottolengui. A figure of the 

 type is in the British Museum, and is copied by Sir George 

 Hampson. The green of my only two specimens of columhiana, 

 which are males, is much darker than that of comstocki, and in 

 this and most other characters of colour and pattern, Smith's 

 species has, as he pointed out in the description, more resembl- 

 ance to jocosa than to comstocki. The orbicular and reniform of 

 comstocki are larger and the wings wider in proportion to their 

 length. As to the generic characters, I do not feel quite sure that 

 the proboscis of my columbiana.h non-functional, as that oi jocosa 



*Not verified. 



