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490. Hydriomena multiferaia Walk. — Lake Louise, Laggan, 

 July 18th, 1907, one specimen. 



491. //. custodiata Grt. — Three more specimens. Red Deer 

 River, July 21st and 24th, and head of Pine Creek, July 27th, all 

 in 1907. 



493. CcEnocalpe magnoliata Guen. — Two more specim.ens, at 

 Head of Pine Creek, on July 15th, 1906, and July 16th, 1911; one at 

 Banff, July 1st, and another at Laggan, July 18th, 1907. 



495. C. topazata Grt.— Head of Pine Creek, May 26th, 1907. 



498. Xanthorhoe ahrasaria H.-S. — One at Head of Pine Creek, 

 July 3rd, 1904, 



501. X. ttirbata Hbn., syn. circumvallaria Taylor. — I quoted 

 Mr. Prout's MS. reference in a footnote to my previous notes. The 

 same reference is made by Messrs. Barnes & McDunnough in Vol. 

 XLIV., p. 274, Sept., 1912. Taylor described it from Laggan speci- 

 mens only. 



502. A', fossaria Taylor — Described from three males and a 

 female from Laggan, Alta., and two males from Mt. Cheam, B. C. 

 One from the latter locahty is the type (Can. Ent., XXXVHL, 401, 

 Dec, 1906). In March, 1906, I visited Mr. Taylor, and received 

 from him, amongst other species, a series of six Wellington speci- 

 mens as fossaria, bearing dates of June 15th to 30th, 1902 and 1905. 

 They certainly look to me the same species, but it is strange that no 

 mention is m.ade of its occurrence at Wellington in the description. 



503. Synelys enudeata Grt. — Two niore Red Deer River 

 specim.ens, July 24th, 1907. 



519. Deilinia borealis Hulst. — I have a female taken by Mrs. 

 Nicholl at Banff on June 24th, 1907. 



(To be continued.) 



ODOUR PREFERENCES OF INSECTS. 



BY HARRY B. WEISS, NEW BRUNSWICK, N.j. 



Moths, butterflies, bees, flies and other insects feed upon the 

 nectar C'f f.owers, being guided to them presumably by the senses 

 of smell and sight. Various in\'estigators have dift'ercd in this, 

 Lubbc'ck claiming that bees, for instance, recognize at a distance 

 and prefer certain colours; while Plateau found that neither form 



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