THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 275 



LEPIDOPTERA IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



Successful collections of Lepidoptera were made in British Columbia 

 this season at Kaslo by myself, with the assistance of Mr. Caudell and 

 Mr. Currie, and under the advice of Mr. J. W. Cockle. Over 20,300 

 specimens rewarded our efforts. Of these a large part are Noctuidae, 

 collected at sugar, showing some very fine series. Nearly 200 larvai were 

 observed. The material will be worked up at the U. S. National Museum. 

 The National collection has been further enriched by the donation of 548 

 specimens from Messrs. Taylor, Bryant, Hanham, Bush and Harvey, whom 

 I had the pleasure of meeting at the close of the collecting season. 



Harrison G. Dyar, Washington, D. C. 



THE GENUS PLATYLABUS, WESMAEL, WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES. 



BY J. CHESTER BRADLEY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



The table which I here present of the genus Platylabtis must be 

 considered merely as a preliminary or working table of the species in the 

 collection of the American Entomological Society, or in my own cabinet. 

 The other species, known to me only by description, I have included for 

 the sake of convenience, and have placed a star before their names. I 

 cannot vouch for the correctness of these. 



P. thoracicus, Cresson, including Phygadeuon iinpressus of 

 Provancher, which Cresson placed as a synonym of the former, var. 

 erythropygtis, Prov., of thoracicus, and P. quadricarinatus., Provancher, I 

 have omitted, as the metathoracic spiracles are nearly or quite circular, 

 placing them in the tribe P/ueogetiiiii, and probably in either the genus 

 Apceleticus, Wesmael, or Herpestomus, Wesmael. As I have not seen 

 specimens of Apceleticus, I cannot be sure that they belong to it, but from 

 the descriptions it would seem probable, and it is there that I would 

 provisionally transfer them. 



Mr. G. C Davis, in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1894, p. 185, from 

 examination of Provancher's types, finds the following synonymy : 



crassicornis = Phygadeuon. 

 mitralis = Phygadeuon. 

 aciculatus = Phygadeuon. 

 cincticornis ^ Cryptus. 



