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657. Orthosia inops Grt. — A badly worn male, taken near 

 the mouth of Fish Creek on Aug. 27th, 1893, probably at treacle, 

 stood for many years in m^• collection without a name, until I was 

 at last able to identify it with the help of a Manitoba series, one 

 of which 1 have compared with the type in the British Museum. 

 I have received a number from Manitoba at different times, mostly 

 from Heath. It appears to be hard to get in good condition. It 

 does not belong properly with AmatJies, which is the generic term 

 used by Hampson for this and other species standing in our lists 

 under Orthosia. It differs from the others in having an abundance 

 of hair-like scales amongst the thoracic vestiture, and in the eyes 

 not being oxerhung by cilia. I noted this concerning the type, 

 and it is so in my series. It belongs with the Acronyctince as used 

 by Hampson, and is better placed with Athetis than with Amathes, 

 though its position there does not satisfy me, as it is of lighter 

 build, and the abdomen has more prominent lateral tufts. It 

 ^•aries considerably in size in the Northwest, my specimens ranging 

 from 24 to 33 mm. In Ent. News, XXIV, 256, June, 1913, I 

 referred Caradrina insipida Strecker doubtfully to this species, 

 and must leaNe the matter to be decided by someone who can 

 compare a specimen with the type of that. Insipida appears in 

 Hampson's Catalogue as an unknown species referred doubtfully, 

 and probably wrongly, to Proxeniis Herr.-Schaff. It was described 

 from Wisconsin. Inops came from Kittery Point, Maine. 



658. Nycterophaeta luna Morr. — Three specimens at Dorothy 

 on the Red Deer River, northeast of Gleichen. Two of them at 

 rest on thistle heads after a rain storm, the other feeding on a 

 thistle in sunshine. July 24th to 26th, 1907. I understood Mr. 

 C. G. Garrett to tell me that he had taken this species near Calgary 

 on July 14th, 1906. 



659. Schinia acutilinea Grt. — A female at the Calgary town 

 lights on Aug. 8th, 1910, by Mr. A. F. Hudson. I know of no 

 other record for Canada. 



660. Dysocnemis borealis Hampson. — (Cat. Lep. Phal., IV, 

 24, pi. LV, fig. 6, 1903). Mr. A. F. Hudson took a specimen of 



