102 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES ON NOCTUID^. 



Collected by Mrs. M. D. Nicholl, in Alberta, British Columbia, and the Wash- 

 ington Forest Reserve, in the years 1904-5-7. 



BY SIR G. F. HAMPSON, BT., B.A., ETC., BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON, ENG. 



The numbers given are those in Dyar's Catalogue of N. American 

 Lepidoptera, and only the more local and interesting species are referred 

 to. The specimens are in the British Museum. 



Agrotin^. 

 2407. Heliothis vaccinia^ H. Edw. 



B. C, 1905, Upper Skagit, i 9. U. S. A., 1905, Robinson, i V ; 

 Washington Forest Reserve, 1905; Washington Pass, i ^, \ ?; 

 Horseshoe Pass, i 9 • 

 2405. Heliothis honest a, Grote. 



B. C, 1905, Upper Keremeos, i $ ; Pasayten, i ^ • 

 1767. Agrotiphila 7naciilata, Smith. 



Alberta, 1907, Mt. Athabasca, 3 c^ 's, 2 9 's; 1905, Laggan, i ^. 

 B. C, 1904, Lake O'Hara, i ?. . 

 1764. Orosagrotis i?icogJiita,^m\\h. 



Alberta, 1907, Brobokton Creek, i ^ . 



1560. Porosagrotis orthogonia, Morr. 

 Alberta, 1907, Prairie, i ^. 



1734. Euxoa colata, Grote. 



Alberta, 1907, Wilcox Peak, i $ . 



1732. Euxoa 1107' dica, Smith. 



Alberta, 1907, Kootenay Plains, i 9- 



1431. Episilia littoralis^ Pack. 



Alberta, 1907, Kootenay Plains, 4 9 's. 



141 7. Aplectoides speciosa, Hiibn., van ardica^ Zett. 

 Alberta, 1907, Wilcox Pass, i ^ . 



Protagrotis NicJiolhe, n. sp. — Head, thorax and abdomen brown, 

 mixed with gray-white ; tarsi with slight pale rings. Fore wing fuscous- 

 brown, mixed with gray-white ; sub-basal line represented by slight dark 

 marks below costa and cell ; antemedial line dark, defined by white on 

 inner side, erect, angled outwards in submedian fold and above inner 

 margin and inwards on vein i ; claviform slightly defined by blackish at 



March, 1908 



