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recently. Mr. Taylor says concerning them : " Two Diastidis of the 

 iiiquinaria group." But he is not able to name them at present. The 

 only female I ever saw of either was bred on July 15th, 1S94, from a larva 

 beaten from Salix at the mouth of Fish Creek in early spring. This was 

 named bicolorata by Hulst, but Mr. Taylor says it does not fit the 

 description. End July and Aug. In the Kootenai list iiiquhiaria is 

 recorded from Kaslo. I have seen and compared a series in Mr. 

 Cockle's collection with both these species. One of his specimens is the 

 same as my 533. The others are ne.\rer to No. 532, but have heavier 

 antenna. 



534. D. loricaria^ Eversman, = Synipherta Julia, Hulst. — Until 

 two years ago the female oi Julia was unknown. Meanwhile Messrs. L. 

 B. Prout and G. W. Taylor suspected its identity with a European species, 

 and the capture by me at treacle of a female wiih rudimentary wings, on 

 Aug. 2nd, 1904, which I had reason to suspect of being yV/Z/Vz, confirmed 

 their suspicions. Mr. Taylor writes : " Sytnpherta Julia^ Hulst, is really 

 Dysmygia hricaria, Eversman, a European species, described in 1837, 

 which has a short-winged female." The species stands in the Staudinger 

 Catalogue under Thanuionoma^ which now gives place in our lists to 

 Diastictis. Julia was described from Ontario, Washington, Calgary, 

 Glenwood Spgs., Colo., and Montana. If the reference of the Calgary 

 species is correct, the description is somewhat misleading. To begin 

 with, the description of the genus SympJieria says : " Antennae bipectinate 

 in the male, the pectinations rather short." I know very itw' species of 

 Geometridds in which the pectinations are longer, compared with the 

 length of the antennae. Again, the description of Julia tells us that "a 

 submarginal whiiisli dentate line, parallel with outer margin," xMWi through 

 the outer reddish-brown band, " having on the inner side a series of dark 

 spots, especially marked at veins 3 and 4, and at 6 and 7." x\s a matter 

 of fact, the whitish line, always faint, and sometimes obsolete, is wholly 

 posterior to the band, of which the " series of dark spots," a prominent 

 feature, form the outer border. The species b^ars a strong resemblance 

 to the i)receding (No. 533), but differs in the more heavily pectinated 

 antennae, the larger, browner and more open discal spot, and more 

 distinctly oval brown spots in the centre band. The males are not rare. 

 Middle July to middle Aug. 



535. Z>. j/. .? —A small, poorly-marked, smoky brown species, not 

 uncommon near the timber line (6,500-7,000 feet) at Laggan. Mr. 



