THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 81 



THE HEATH COLLECTION OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY F. H. WOLLEY DOD. 



(Continued from vol. XLVHI, p. 380.) 



Anytus ohscurus Sm. The palest specimens stood separated 

 as privatus, of which ohscurus is very likely only a suffused variation. 

 The more suffused specimens stood as profundus, which Smith de- 

 scribed from Manitoba as a species distinct from ohscurus, the lat- 

 ter being described from Calgary on the same page. His subse- 

 quent attempt to prove the two distinct on genitalic characters is 

 quite unconvincing. I use ohscurus as the prior name by a page. 



Anytus (Fishia) derelicta Hampson. Most of the specimens 

 stood as Hadena relecma Morr., an old and widespread error which 

 Heath had apparently never had corrected. One with paler secon- 

 daries than usual was separated as yosemita Grt., but wrongh'. 

 Instruta Smith, described from De Claire, Man., may prove to be 

 a j5rior name to derelicta. 



IJfeus satyricus drt. Some specimens were separated as 

 plicatus Grt. 



Mam est r a mystica Sni. 



Mamestra imbrifera On. Heath repeatedly sent me this 

 species as rogenhaferi, under which name there is a specimen in the 

 Rutgers College from Winnipeg, apparently distinct from anything 

 else known to me. 



Mamestra purpurissata Grt. Mostly standing as juj7cimacula 

 Sm. 



Mamestra meditata Grt. Most of the specimens were near 

 var. columhia Sm. Two specimens of Tricholita signata stood mixed 

 with the series. 



Mamestra lustralis Grt. var. cervina Sm. Smaller and duller 

 than the typical form. 



Mamestra segregata Sm. (syn. gussata Sm.) and var. negussa 

 Sm. 



Mamestra detracta Walk. var. ueoterica Sm. Smaller and dul- 

 ler than the typical form of the species, as is so frequently the case 

 with Manitoba races. One series stood as goodellii, and another 

 as acutermina. Two more specimens, one of them an unusually 

 contrasting variety, stood elsewhere as cuneata Grt., which they in 

 no way resembled. 



March. 1917 



