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Vol. XXXVIII. LONDON, AUGUST, 1906. No. 8 



PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF 



ALBERTA, N.-W. T. 



BY F. H. WOLLEY DOD, MILLARVILLE, ALBERTA. 

 (Continued from page 94.) 



488. Hydriomeiia quinquefasciata, Pack. — Very common. Middle 

 July to middle Aug. Exceedingly variable. The specimens that I have 

 from the mountains (Banff) are duller in colour than those taken nearer 

 Calgary, with less green. Mr. Taylor says : " It is best for the present to 

 use the name quinque/ascUita, Pack., for the moth we have been calling 

 sordidata. It is probably the same as the sordidaia, Fabr., of Europe 

 (but a good variety), but it is not the sordidata of Packard's Monograph, 

 which I think must bear Packard^s name, imbilifasciata.^^ 



489. H. ruherata^ Freyer. — Mr. Taylor says : '• This species, which 

 stands in most of the collections as iri/asciata, is, I think, rediWy ruber at a, 

 Freyer, of which I have English specimens. The tri/asciata of Packard 

 was not the tri/asciata of Borkhausen, which = aiitumnalis, Strom." My 

 records up till 1905 were June and early July, and I never saw it at all 

 common. But during the present season (1906) the males have come 

 rather freely to outdoor light between May loth and 14th. 



489a. [H. autumnalis, Strom. — Of a specimen taken by Mr. Hudson 

 at Springbank, near here, on May 30th, 1905, Mr. Taylor said : " More like 

 European aiitunuialis than most others I have seen." The specimen was 

 much more strigate and less obviously banded than any ruberata I had 

 previously seen, and certainly suggested another species. But after com- 

 paring it with some of the more recent captures of ruberata above 

 mentioned, I am doubtful of its distinctness therefrom. I have compared 

 this specimen with the species in Mr. Cockle's collection at Kaslo, recorded 

 as atctwnnalis in the Kootenai list, and believe it to be entirely distinct.] 



490. H. uiultiferata. Walk. — Two specimens near Billings's mill, 

 Ji-^^y 3~7> 1S95, and June 19th, 1898. 



491. H. custodiata, Gn. — A male at light on Pine Creek on July i8th, 

 1903, and a female flying in the daytime by the Red Deer River, north- 

 east of Gleichen, on July 4th, 1905. Mr. Taylor tells me that Dr. 



