186 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



FURTHER NOTES ON ALBERTA LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY F. H. WOLLEY DOD, MIDNAPORE, ALTA. 



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378. Parastichtis discivaria Walk. — This species is correctly 

 named, and Sir George Hampson changed his opinion as to the 

 distinctness of gentilis before pubhshing. Walker's type is from 

 St. Martin's Falls, Hudson's Bay Territory, and is the strongly 

 marked contrasting form, with pale luteous inner and postmedial 

 areas. Type perbellis, from Evans Centre, N.Y., which Hampson 

 makes "ab. 1." is similarly strongly marked, but more even in 

 shade, and lacks the contrastingly pale areas. This is the form 

 figured by Holland. Gentilis, from the same locality, is even red- 

 brown, with indistinct maculation. All three forms occur here, 

 and intergrade. 



381 . HomoglcEa kircina Morr. — This has been rather common 

 in recent years. I have never seen it in the fall, but it appeared 

 in some numbers in the end of March, 1910, which I thought un- 

 usually early. This year however a few were seen at light during 

 a mild spell on the 4th or 5th of March. A fortnight later the 

 thermometer fell to about 15° below zero. It is a strikingly vari- 

 able species, some of the forms being very pretty. The colour 

 varies from a rather pale reddish luteous to dark chocolate brown. 

 A handsome grey irroration is variably present or absent. Some 

 are practically immaculate; others have the usual geminate cross 

 lines of darker shades filled in with the ground colour, or with grey, 

 the spots also sometimes outlined with grey. Sometimes most of 

 the veins are grey lined. A rare form has black punctiform spots 

 in the s.t., and still more rarely in the t.p. line also. A wx'll defined 

 median transverse shade sometimes exists, and generally runs 

 through the middle of the reniform. 



383. Ipimorpha pleonedusa Grt. — ^The type in the British 

 Museum is a male from Evans Centre, N. Y. according to 

 the Catalogue, and the eastern form seems to have reddish brown 

 tints not possessed by specimens from Manitoba and Alberta, 

 which Hampson makes "Ab. 1. Paler, and less red." Dr. Dyar, 

 in the Kootenai List, says that both forms occur at Kaslo, and calls 

 the light clay-coloured one "var. a'Quilinea Smith." Smith refers to 



June, 1913 



