218 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



new species and of a few others taken in the same general district, but 

 elsewhere described. 



Anytus obsciirus, n. sp. 



Deep, bluish gray, washed with smoky so as to obscure all the 

 markings. So far as the latter are visible, they agree with privatns, save 

 that the lines are much more even throughout. There are no contrasts 

 anywhere, and the connecting streak between the median lines is not 

 traceable in the specimen before me. The ordinary spots are barely 

 defined. Secondaries a little smoky throughout, not unlike some female 

 privatus. Beneath, dull, smoky. The thoracic tuftings are less obvious 

 than in the other species, and the insect as a whole seems less robust. 



Expands 36 mm. =1.44 inches. 



Habitat : Edge Calgary, VIII., 21 (Dod). 



A single male, in fair condition. This is undoubtedly distinct from 

 privatus, all the maculation being lost in the very deep ground, though 

 retainmg the characteristics of the eastern form so far as they are traceable. 

 The male genitalia are obviously distinct from the others of the genus, 

 though remaining of the same type. 



Atiytus profundus, n. sp. , 



In all essential points of ornamentation like privatus ; but very much 

 darker, blue-gray and black. Head and thorax blackish with a seal-brown 

 tinge, the black line on the collar scarcely contrasting. The primaries 

 have the median space blackish filled above the narrow black streak 

 connecting the median lines, and the ordinary spots are thereby obscured 

 and made indefinite. The t. p. line is distinctly more even, the points 

 on the veins being much less prominent, and the inward tooth in the sub- 

 median interspace being much less marked. Terminal space almost 

 uniformly dark smoky brown. Secondaries with clearer white and black 

 contrasts than in the eastern species, and this difference holds also on the 

 under side. 



Expands 37-40 mm. =^ i. 48-1. 60 inches. 



Habitat : Brandon, Manitoba (Hanham). 



It may be perhaps a question whether this is really a good species or 

 a geographical race oi privatus. They are nearly related, no doubt ; but 

 I am inclined to consider them distinct : not only because of the colour 



