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420. D. co/isJ>/cua, Smith. (? = Euclidia aiinexa, Hy. Edw.) 



Described from here, and boih sexes are figured with the description. 



The type is at Wasliington. Not common. Middle May to middle June. 



Exclusively a day-flier. Prof. Smith states, " The species is so well 



marked that it cannot be mistaken. The maculation of primaries is a 

 reduced co\)y o^ erechte a, much more distinct, but in the banded second- 

 aries generic habit is abandoned, and the form is unique." He well 

 describes the colour of primaries as " smoky, overlaid by bluish-white or 



gray sc lies, the markings smoky brown or blackish, contrasting." 



There is little difference between the sexes. Dr. Holland's figure gives 

 an excellent idea of the species. In build it certainly looks like a 

 Drasteria, with 9 abdomen somewhat of the crassiuscula form, but the 

 banding of the secondaries, including a conspicuous discal lunule, is 

 almost as much like that of a Syneda. Sir George Hampson has the 

 species from here, and tells me it is identical with the type of Euclidia 

 annexa, Hy. Edw. 



421. Eculidia cuspidea, Hbn. — Two specimens. One on Bow 

 River, near mouth of Fish Creek, June 24th, 1894; the other on Red 

 Deer River, about 50 miles north-east of Gleichen, June 20th, 1901. The 

 last mentioned specimen is in my collection. Both were flying in sun- 

 shine. It is probably a prairie species, and hardly extends this far west. 



422. Melipotis litnboiaris, Geyer. — Have seen it common on the 

 prairie, near the mouth of Fish Creek, on Bow River. I have never seen 

 it in the hills. My specimens from there, two pairs, are dated June 25th 

 to Aug. 4th, 1893 and 1894. Prof. Smith saw a pair of these recently, 

 and returned them to me as this species, which name he had given me for 

 it some years previously. Two pairs from the Red Deer River locality on 

 July 5th and 8th, 1904, are probably the same species. The sexual 

 dimorphism is strong, the females having a dull, washed-out appearance^ 

 Were the secondaries orange instead of creamy-white, the resemblance 

 of the (^ would be nearer to divergens or Hudsonica than to limbolaris of 

 Dr. Holland's figures. A day-flier. Mr. Gregson records the species 

 from the Lacombe district on the authority of Dr. Fletcher. 



423. Syneda Athabasca., Neum. — Fairly common some years. June 

 to middle July. A day flier. The form,. of which I have also both sexes 

 from the Red Deer River locality, is like Dr. Holland's figure, but one 

 Red Deer $ and two Laggan (station level) females have orange-tinted 

 secondaries, but do not seem to differ in maculation. These three 



