266 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



NEW LEPIDOPTERA FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



BY E. H. BLACKMORH, 

 Victoria, B; C. 



NOCTUID/E. 



Caenurgia erechtea Cram, form parva form. nov. 



This form is the spring brood of erechtea and is distinguished from the typical 

 or summer form by its uniformly smaller size, measuring 35 mm. in alar expanse 

 as compared with 42 mm. in typical erechtea. 



The colours and markings of both male and female are exactly the same as 

 in erechtea but, of course, on a reduced scale. It flies in April and May, while 

 erechtea is not on the wing until July and August. 



Described from 10 specimens, 6 cT's and 4 9 's collected by the author. 



Holotype.— c^, Victoria, B. C, April 29th, 1913. 



Allotype.— 9 , Victoria, B. C, April 22nd, 1912. 



Paratypes.—b c^'s, Victoria, B.C., April 22nd, May 4th, 6th, 13th, 1913, 

 April 22nd, 1917; 3 9 's, Victoria, B. C, April 18th, May 4th, 1913, May 13th, 

 1917. 



Types and paratypes in author's collection. 



LASIOCAMriD^. 



Tolype dayi, n. sp. 



Male. — -Palpi seal brown tipped with white; front seal brown; thorax 

 slate-grey shading into pale grey on metathorax, with the usual brown crest 

 of raised scales; abdomen dark slate-grey shading into lighter grey laterally. 

 Primaries light grey with median and sub-terminal spaces dark grey; maculation 

 very close to velleda, but difTers in the course of the outer edge of the median 

 space, which is more sinuate in the new species. 



The sub-terminal space is much narrower in dayi than it is in velleda and 

 is of a more even width throughout. Terminal line white; fringe gre>', paler 

 externally. Secondaries, basal area smoky; median band paler followed by a 

 sub-terminal smoky band which is produced into an angle at vein 4. 



Underneath much as above but paler and the maculation less distinct. 



Female. — Front and thorax chalk white in contradistinction to the yellowish 

 white of velleda Stoll, and lowrrei B. «& McD.; abdomen banded with dark and 

 light grey and densely clothed with longish white hairs. Primaries very much 

 paler than the male, and all the veins outlined in white. 



In this sex there is a tendency in the dark grey sub-terminal space to be- 

 come obsolete outwardh- from vein 6 to inner margin, thus giving the lower 

 half of the s. t. space the appearance of a narrow, dark band. 



Secondaries same as in the male but much paler. 



Flxpanse. — Male 34-35 mm. Female 41-42 mm. 



Described from two males and five females all taken on \'ancou\'er Island. 



Holotype. — ^9, Qiianiichan Lake, near Duncan, B.C., Sept. 3rd, 1915, 

 G. O. Day, and in the collection of the author, through Mr. Day's kindness. 



Allotype.— d", Sluggett, V. L, Sept. 18th, 1916, W. Downes, and in the 

 collection f)f the author, through the kindness of the captor. 



Paratypes.^ One male, X'ictoria, B. C, Sept. 1st, 1916, taken by the author 

 and in his collertion- 3 females, Ouamichan Lake, \'. L, Sept. 13th. 1906, Sept. 



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