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.4w«7/a Smith, Calgary; Cartwright, Man; Wellington, B. C. 

 (The male type is from Cartwright, and is practically a dead mate 

 for the male type oi fletcheri). 



Vertina Smith, Corvallis, Oregon; B. C. 



Var. emarginata Smith, Colorado Springs and Glenwood 

 Springs, Colo. A pale, slightly marked form. 



The only type of oregonensis that I have seen is an Oregon 

 male in the Henry Edwards' collection, and my notes say that it 

 is a pale holocinerea. I am in doubt as to the identity of Fig. 26., 

 Plate IV, of Smith's Monograph, and it struck me that the material 

 in his collection under oregonensis probably included two species. 

 The oregonensis of Hampson's Catalogue, Plate CIII., Fig. 7, is a 

 Californian specimen, and is certainly not georgii. I have in my col- 

 lection a male and two females of a species from Glenwood Springs, 

 Colorado, from Dr. Barnes. One of them is labelled "oregonensis 

 Harvey, identified by Smith," and the other is labelled "torrida 

 Smith" by Dr. Barnes. In my opinion these specimens are un- 

 doubtedly rather poorly marked antennata, and agree well with 

 my eastern series of that. Under the description of torrida, Smith 

 says that "the more obscure examples remind one of the antennata 

 type" and it is possible that the latter species was included in the type 

 material. It will be necessary to re-examine the types to decide, as 

 I have previously mixed the forms myself, but the species I have at 

 present under torrida is a brightly marked thing from Vancouver 

 Island, and is that figured by Smith in his monograph under the 



name, on plate V., fig. 31. 



(To be continued.) 



During the latter half of January Mr. F. W. L. Sladen, 

 Assistant Entomologist for Apiculture in the Division of Ent- 

 omology, Ottawa, has been travelling in Nova Scotia and Neav 

 Brunswick. A short course in Apiculture was given at the Agri- 

 cultural College, Truro, and subsequently Mr. Sladen investigated 

 apicultural conditions and possibilities and addressed meetings in 

 the two provinces. 



Correction. — P. 367, line 19, after September 12 add 1911, 

 December Number, Canadian Entomologist. F. M. Webster. 



