THE CANADIAN F:NT0M0L0GIST 41 



Scythris interrupta, u. sp. 



Palpi dark brown, white inwardly and above except at tips of segments. 

 Head, thorax and fore wings dark brown faintly shining. A gradually broaden- 

 ing white streak follows the fold from base almost to middle of wing, where it 

 (iften abruptly becomes two or three times as wide. At two-thirds there is a 

 more or less distinct white, elongate spot on the fold. Hind wings with veins 

 4 and 5 coincident; dark brown, almost concolorous with the fore wings. Legs 

 dark gray. Abdomen dark brown above, beneath gray in the male, silvery in 

 the female. Expanse 10 nun. 



Type {d^) and se\en paratypes. City Creek Canyon, Highlands, Cali- 

 fornia, May 11. . . 



Scythris ypsilon, n. sp. 



Palpi pale yellowish shaded with fuscous beneath. Face pale yellowish. 

 Top of head, thorax and fore wings pale golden. The fore wings are marked 

 with three irregular, oblique white bands. The first of these crosses the extreme 

 base to the dorsum, where it l^roadens greatly and passes obliquely upwards 

 and outwards, joining the second band near the costa; the second band passes 

 oblitiuel)' from the basal third of costa to near the middle of the dorsum, broad- 

 ening below the fold. The third band extends from the costal two-thirds 

 obliquely inwards to the dorsum, broadening on each side below the middle of 

 the wing, and often enclosing on the dorsum a small spot of ground colour. 

 Sometimes a minute white spot in the apex. Hintl wings pale golden with a 

 slight purplish lint. Abdomen pale golden above, anal luft >elIowish. Under 

 side of abdomen and legs pale yellowish. F^xpanse 9.5—10 mm. 



Type (cf) and eight paratypes, Loma I^inda, California, June oO, July 11, 

 August 21-31, and October 15. (G. R. Pilate). 



Similar to S. trivinctella Zeller, but of a paler golden ground colour and 

 with greater extent of white markings. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL BRANCH. 

 Entomologist for Forest Insect Work in British Columbia Appointed. 



Mr. Ralph Hopping has been appointed as Entomologist to take charge 

 of the forest insect work in British Columbia, under the direction of Dr. J. M. 

 Swainc, Chief of the Di\ ision of Forest Insects, and he commenced duties in 

 December. Mr. Hopping has had a lengthy practical experience of forestry 

 operations and forest insect control work in western forests. He has been 

 attached to the United States Forest Service for twelve years, and for seven 

 years he had charge of insect control work in the National Forests in California. 

 During the war his territory included the States of Arizona, New Mexico and 

 Colorado. Few men have had a wider practical experience of forest insect 

 control operations, and Mr. Hopping is now engaged in planning and super- 

 vising control operations for bark-beetle outbreaks in southern British Columbia, 

 where these insects have been responsible for extensive losses in valuable tim- 

 ber during the last few years. 



