264 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



545. Metrocampa ferlata, Gn. — Very common, sometimes rather 

 abundant, particularly in poplar thickets. Dusk, and occasionally at 

 light, ill July. This, Mr. Taylor tells me, is the common and widely 

 distributed pale green species standing in our lists as prcegraiidaria^ Gn., 

 and is the N. American representative of European margaritata^ Linn. 

 But p7cegrandaria, he says, was described as a reddish flesh-coloured 

 species, with thorax sulphur-yellow. The species seems to be unknown, 

 and the description may have been from a European specimen {Jionoraria, 

 Schiff.) in error. 



546. Eiinomos jnagnarius, Gn. — Not common. End Aug. to 

 middle Sept. Light. Mr. Hudson bred a fine female from a larva feeding 

 on Popuhis treimiloides. 



547. Ximthotype crccataria^ Fabr. — Not rare on the Red Deer 

 River in early July, 1905, but getting rather worn. Taken principally at 

 light, and apparently all males. Most of the specimens are more heavily 

 banded, but less speckled, than Dr. Holland's figure, and a {qv^ closely 

 resemble that of var. coelaria. 



548. Hyperitis a?nicaria, H.-S. — \n about equal numbers to the 

 preceding species, at the same time and place, but taken almost entirely 

 by beating willow bushes in the daytime. 



549. H. trianguliferata.VdiQ}^. = notataria,^^w\^i. Not common. 

 End May to early July. Daytime and light. I have a specimen which 

 was returned to me as "•triafiguliferaria, var. notatai'ia^^ by Hulst, though 

 in his " Classification," published a year later, he lists the names as 

 distinct. The specimen is a male, and has a well-marked dark spot on 

 inner margin of primaries, which in others of my series is entirely lacking. 

 I have only five males and a female at present under examination, but the 

 series is such as to convince me that the extremes are one species. Dr. 

 Dyar, in the Kootenai list, draws the same conclusion from a long series 

 taken in the Kaslo district. I never suspected the existence of two 

 amongst my local material. The use of either as a varietal name i^, 

 however, superfluous, as Mr. Taylor writes : "Packard's type oi tria7igiili- 

 ferata is the form afterwards described as jwtataria by Hulst. The 

 triangtiliferata of Hulst (nee Pack.) is the less spotted var." Notataria 

 is therefore a synonym, as both names refer to the form with the spot on 

 hind margin. 



550. EiicJihena obtiisai'ia, Hbn. — Not rare at light on the Red Deer 

 in early July, 1905. 



