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Vol. XXXII. 



LONDON, AUGUST, 1900. 



No. 8 



CONTENTS. 



Smith — New Noctuids from B. N. America . 217 



Erratum 225 



Northwest (Canada) Entom. Society 225 



Bird — New Histories in Hydroecia 226 



Barrett — Notes on the Cambridge Natural 

 History, Vol, VI, . - , 234 



Fernald— North American species of Choreutis 236 



Johnson — New N, American Ortalida; 246 



Hine — Two new species of Tabanidje 247 



NEW NOCTUIDS FROM BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, WITH 



NOTES ON SOME OTHERS. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH, SC. D., RUTGERS COLLEGE, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 



Of late years a few collectors have been sending material from 

 various points in Western Canada, Manitoba and British Columbia. 

 Mr. Dod at Calgary, Mr. Hanham at Winnipeg, and Mr. Heath at 

 Cartwright, have collected many interesting species. Dr, Fletcher has 

 sent me examples from other collectors in the same general region, so 

 that we have now some little basis for a judgment as to the general 

 character of the Noctuid fauna. 



Within a comparatively small area, species from the Atlantic and 

 from the Pacific Coast regions occur. The body of the species are of the 

 Rocky Mountain series, but there is a strong admixture of forms occurring 

 in Maine, in Northern New England, and even in Labrador. Extending 

 westward, toward and into Vancouver, comes a decided Pacific Coast or 

 Californian type, with an addition, the extent of which is yet uncertain, of 

 characteristic forms. Quite a number of species which at first sight seem 

 like well-known eastern forms, prove, on closer study of large series, to 

 be distinct, and most of the new species that have of late reached me 

 have been from this region or from the adjacent States of Washington and 

 Oregon. 



AA\ the species here described are taken in British America, and, 

 with one exception, have not thus far been taken in the United States. 



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