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this species on May 7th, 1895. It was one of those specimens 

 retained by Prof. Smith from amongst consignments sent him for 

 naming about that time, and we did not meet with it again for 

 years, it remaining as but a vague memory in our minds until I 

 saw the specimen in Smith's collection on my visit to him, fourteen 

 years later. I then recognized it as this species, of which Mr. 

 Hudson had taken three specimens flying in sunshine at sallow 

 blossoms on April 29th, 1906. He took it again in May, 1912, 

 but'it remained for Mr. W. H. T. Tams to take the species in any 

 numbers. That gentleman took from 30 to 40 specimens between 

 May 8th and 24th, 1914, in sunshine, at sallow and bearberry 

 blossoms, and at mud patches in dry weather. Mr. Criddle has 

 taken the species at Treesbank, Manitoba, and Mr. Garrett at 

 Cranbrook, B. C. The type came from St. Martin's Falls, Albany 

 River, Hudson's Bay Territory. It is a worn specimen, and totally 

 lacks the natural beauty of fresh examples. Both t. a. and t. p. 

 lines are present in all the good specimens I have seen, the latter 

 fine, thread-like, blackish, outwardly dentate on the veins, inwardly 

 crenate in the interspaces, and showing up Avell against the large 

 pale region extending from the orbicular to the terminal border, 

 and from the costa to the inner margin. There is a narrow terminal 

 border in sharp contrast to this pale area. The thorax is dark 

 vinous red, and a faint tinge of this colour pervades the primaries, 

 especially towards the apex. This appears to fade to olivaceous 

 brown in flown specimens. 



661. Melicleptria villosa Grt. — I have four males and a 

 female taken at Dorothy, on July 25th and 26th, 1907. I er- 

 roneously recorded these specimens as Heliaca diminuliva in 38th 

 Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont. 1907, p. 122 (1908). The female is larger 

 than any of the males, and has larger pale areas on all wings, 

 and possesses the pale mark in the cell before the orbicular, which 

 is one of the characters distinguishing persimilis., but entirely lacks 

 the vinous shades of that species. I took a pair in cop. on the 

 top of a hill near Millarville on July 16th, 1911. In this case the 

 female is slightly the smaller and darker of the two, though the 

 maculation is identical with that of the male. Barnes and Mc- 

 Dunnough, in Contr. I, No. 4, p. 39, point out that villosa and 

 persimilis are distinct. Hampson's figure under villosa is of 



