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specimens taken at light, one of which has been labelled Columbia by 

 Prof. Smith. They agree pretty well with the figure of that species in 

 Dr. Holland's book, but lack the reddish shading of the outer band there 

 shown, which shading, as mentioned in the text, is supposed to be charac- 

 teristic of Gloveri. I cannot, however, detect it in his figure of the latter 

 species. 1 have a pair sent me from the States, but without data, labelled 

 Gloveri^ which have certainly a very faint purplish shading in 

 outer band, but the central band has less of a purplish tint, and in this 

 respect they are quite unlike Dr. Holland's figure of Gloveri. The speci- 

 mens are a good deal larger than mine, but otherwise their distinctness 

 does not satisfy me. However, comparison with specimens from an 

 unknown locality is eminently unsatisfactory. I have occasionally found 

 empty cocoons of a Samia on Salix near the head of Pine Creek (/. e., in 

 the hills), but never with larvi^, and rarely with imagines. It is rather 

 more common about ten miles further east, near the mouth of Fish Creek, 

 but the only time I tried " assembling " with a 9 there I met witii no 

 success, probably through ignorance of the correct time for flight. It is 

 a fairly regular, though not common, visitor to the Calgary electric lights, 

 and I have occasionally been brought specimens taken in houses in the 

 town. 



During a trip made down the north bank of the Bow River in 1S99, I 

 noticed larvie that I took to be Columbia common in some spots on 

 osier growing on the river banks. Dr. Fletcher has bred moths from 

 larv;e from the Lacombe district which he tells me are " more like Gloveri 

 than my conception of Columbia." He reports that the larvae at Lacombe 

 feed on Elceagnus arge?itiea, but I have never observed them on that 



shrub myself. 



Syntomiu/I-:. 



103. Scepsis /ulvicollis, Hbn. — ^A single specimen at head of Pine 

 Creek, flying in sunshine, July 25th, 1S98, and another on Red Deer 

 River bottom at snowberry flowers, in sunshine, about July 7th, 1904. 



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104. Crambidia casta. — Not rare at ligh^ Middle Aug. to middle 

 Sept. 



105. Hypoprepia miniata, Kirby. — Two specimens only, a $, 

 Ijlackfaids (near Laconbe), Alta., Aug. ist, 1902 (Gregson), and a > 

 head of Pine Creek, July 25th, 1903, at light, the latter named by Dr. 

 Dyar. Both are quite fresh specimens. 



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106. Celain.r pNstulata, Walk — Xot rare, at ligiit and dusk. July. 



