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Vol. XLVII. LONDON. FEBRUARY, 1915 No. 2 



FURTHER NOTES ON ALBERTA LEPIDOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. 



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



(Continued from page 8.) 



620. Agrotis bollii Grt.? — One female at light, September 

 3rd, 1904. This is the specimen mentioned by me in Can. Ent., 

 XXXVII, p. 58, Feb., 1905, as "darker and less clearly marked" 

 tha\i Euxoa viallis, from which I can easily distinguish it now that 

 I know the latter species better. Grote described the species as 

 Agrotis hilaris from a Texas male, which is in the British Museum, 

 but he afterwards found the name preoccupied in the gejius in 

 Europe, and substituted bollii. Sir George Hampson, however, 

 placing the European and North American hilaris in different 

 genera, restores the prior name, which Grote never altered on the 

 type label. The type has a black collar, which my specimen has 

 not, and lacks a dark brown costal mark near the apex possessed 

 by mine, which is also less grey and has the orbicular of dift'erent 

 shape. There were no other specimens in the British Museum. 

 A female from Huachuca Mountains, Ariz., in Smith's collection, 

 I think the only one he had standing as bollii, appeared more like 

 mine, and also lacked the black collar. 



621. Noctua acarnea Smith. — -(Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XI H, 

 194, Dec, 1905). 



Described from a single male taken by Mr. Sanson at the Banff 

 Museum on July llth, 1902. I examined the specimen in Smith's 

 collection in January, 1910, and took very careful notes thereon, 

 as it appeared quite distinct from anything I had previously seen. 

 Nor could I, until just before writing the present article, discover 

 anything which might be it amongst the material sent me for 

 naming from time to time by Mr. Sanson. But by good fortune 

 I have before me at this moment a male in good condition taken 

 by him on an electric light pole on July 4th, 1914, and submitted 

 to me just in time for recording here. 



