348 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 



The "Billings's mill" locality, ten miles further wes^, in the spruce timber, 

 has been described in my preface to the butterflies. " Blackfalds " is, I 

 believe, intended to refer to the same general locality as " Lacombe " in 

 the butterflies. A type specimen referred to as " at Washington," means 

 that it is in the U. S. National Museum at that place, and " at Rutgers 

 College " signifies Prof. J. B. Smith's collection. It has been a common 

 error in the past amongst describers of species to record a large percentage 

 of material taken on British territory, between Winnipeg and the Pacific, 

 as coming from '• B. C."' Incidentally, the geographical error is not 

 confined to entomologists, as " B. C." is erroneously engraved upon the 

 door-key tags, menus, etc., at the C. P. R. chalet at Laggan. The eastern 

 boundary of British Columbia is, I believe, the summit of the Rocky 

 Mountains, 5 or 6 miles west of Laggan. In one instance among the many 

 corrections of the error that I have made in this paper, the actual locality 

 mentioned (Roundthwaite) as being in "B. C." is actually about 650 miles 

 distant therefrom as the crow flies. There are several types referred to 

 " B. C." which I rather suspect of coming from Manitoba or the North- 

 west Territories, though I am quite unable to trace them. 



Sphingid.€. 



95. Hemaris diffinis, Bdv. — ^Common at flowers of wild gooseberry. 

 End May and June. Larva on snowberry. 



96. Lepisesiafiavo/asciata,\Va.\k.—OnQ^nt 9 near Billings's lumber 

 mill, June 5ih, 1898. 



97. Deilephila gaiii, Rott., var. chavice/ierii, Harr. — Common at 

 flowers of bergamot, wild gooseberry, etc., at dusk. June and July. 



98. D. /ineata, Fabr. — -Rather rare at cultivated "pinks" and other 

 flowers at dusk. My specimens are all from near mouth of Fish Creek. 

 I think I have seen it on the hill prairie occasionally. July. 



99. Sphinx Vancoiiverefisis, Hy. Edw., var. albescens, Tepper. — Not 

 rare, flying at dusk, or at rest in daytime. June and July. 



100. Sinerinthus Jainaicensis, Dru., var. geminatus. Say. — Rather 

 common flying round willow bushes after dark, and at light. June and 

 July. 



loi. S. cerysii, Kirby. — Not at all common. Same method of 

 capture as preceding species. June. 



Saturniid/E. 



102. Sa/nia Columbia, Smith. — Probably fairly common, but it seems 

 to me to be more of a prairie than a foothill species. I have only 4 ^ 



