122 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



FURTHER NOTES ON ALBERTA LEPIDOPTERA. 



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



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635. Mamestra carbonifera Hamps. — (Can. Ent. XL, 104, 

 March, 1908, Miselia.) Described from two females taken on 

 Wilcox Pass, Alberta Rockies in 1907, by Mrs. Nicholi. I have a 

 female in my collection taken at treacle on Pine Creek on July 4th, 

 1904. Mr. Sanson has taken it at Banff on several occasions, 

 having shown me four males, dated July 25th, 1911, or prior, and 

 July 1st and 13th, 1914. It might be taken for a melanic form of 

 imbrifera, but lacks the ochreous tints of that species, and has 

 more hairy thoracic vestiture. The male antennae are minutely 

 serrate-fasciculate, exactly as in discalis, with the addition of a 

 short bristle, shorter than in imbrifera. Hampson finds Miselia 

 Ochs. a prior name for Folia Ochs., to which he refers most of our 

 species known under Mamestra. 



A close ally of this species is leomegra Smith from Newfound- 

 land, in which male antenna; are, however, ciliate only. 



[636. M. plicata Smith? — There is a specimen in the Rutgers 

 College collection taken at High River by Mr. Baird, and dated 

 Sept. 21st, 1907, which seemed distinct from anything known to me 

 in Alberta. It stood near plicata, but was spaced apart. It is 

 larger than any negiissa I have seen from here, and looked to me 

 like a pale specimen of plicata. The correct dates, however, for 

 both negnssa and plicata appear to be May.] 



637. M. chunka Sm.— (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXXVI, 265, 

 Nov., 1910.) Described from three males from Aweme, Man. I 

 have a female in my collection taken at High River by Mr. Baird 

 on May 4th, 1910. Its nearest ally known to me is crotchii Grt. 



638. M. lubens Grt. — High River (Baird), three specimens. 

 Two on April 31st, 1910, on tree trunks, -and the other on June 

 15th, 1914. I have already pointed out that this is distinct from 

 cristifera. 



639. M. artesta Sm. — Two specimens at Dorothy, Red Deer 

 River, July 1st, 1905, flying at dusk, and at High River by Mr. 



