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[631. E. rufula Smith. — In Prof. Smith's collection I found a 

 specimen marked "rufula Smith Xd type," and bearing label "Ft. 

 Calgary, N. W. B. C." Smith told me, however, that the accuracy 

 of the label was doubtful. That is to say, that it is doubtful 

 whether the specimen was really taken at Calgary, which, though 

 formerly a fort, was never in B. C. Rufula is not a synonym of 

 infausta as listed by both Smith and Hampson, but is the species 

 figured by Hampson, I think erroneously, as hasiflava.] 



632. E. compressipennis Smith. — ^A female taken at Banff, 

 at light, on Aug. 19th, 1909. In 41st Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont. for 1910 

 (page 11 of the "Record"), 1911, I recorded the specimen as 

 hasiflava, and an added note says: "This w^as described from N. W. 

 B. C. Compressipennis was described from Yosemite, B. C. The 

 types are identical." That note unfortunately contains two in- 

 accuracies. Compressipennis was described from Yosemite, Cali- 

 fornia, which I feel convinced was the statement that I sent into 

 print. But "the types are identical" was my own unguarded 

 statement. What I should have said was that the male type of 

 compressipennis in the Washington Museum was absolutely 

 identical with the female type of basiflava in the same collection. 

 The latter was described from "North West British Columbia" 

 (possibly meaning the Alberta Rockies — who can tell?), I think 

 from a single pair only. I had previously seen the male type also 

 in the Neumoegen collection in the Brooklyn Museum, and do not 

 feel confident that it is the same species, and must therefore modify 

 my positive reference until I can positively identify the male type. 



633. E. obeliscoides Gn. and var. infusa Smith. — Infusa was 

 described as a species from two males, from Cartwright, Man., 

 and Black Hills, Wyo. The Cartwright specimen is the type in 

 the Washington Museum. The other I have not seen. A note 

 after the description adds: "The species is really obeliscoides 

 without the contrasting costa, and with the t. p. line lost so that 

 there is an almost even shade below the cell from t. a. line to outer 

 margin; the terminal space being scarcely deeper. The ground 

 colour and general variation in tint are as in obeliscoides, but the 

 species is perceptibly smaller." 



Obeliscoides is not rare at Cartwright, and most speciniens 

 that I have seen from there entirely lack the red-brown shades of 



