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LIPARID^. 



446. Notolophiis antiqua Lin. — I have occasionally seen the 

 male of this species on the wing in sunshine during September in 

 some numbers, and have bred it from Salix. 



447. Olene vagans Barnes & McDunnough, var. grisea B. & 

 McD. (Contributions, Vol. II., No. 2, pp. 60 to 63, pi. III., April, 

 1913). — This is the species standing as Olene plagiata Walk, in our 

 lists, and was supposed to be the Acyphas plagiata of Walker. When 

 at the British Museum early in 1912 I saw Walker's type, and 

 recognized it as the well-known leucostigma of Abbott and Smith. 

 This is referred to by Messrs. Barnes & McDunnough on page 50 of 

 their "Contributions" quoted above, and Walker's type is figured 

 on Plate VII., Fig. 1. Those authors considered the present species 

 unnamed, and described it accordingly as vagans. They divided it 

 into three sub-species: (a) vagans, types from St. Johns and Mont- 

 real, Que., and Yaphang, L. I.; (b) grisea, types from Eureka and 

 Provo, Utah; (c) ivillingi, types from Humboldt, Sask. I have 

 seven Alberta specimens, six males and a female, from Red Deer 

 River, head of Pine Creek, and High River, the latter from Mr. 

 Eaird, June 17th to July 27th. All of these seem referable to grisea. 

 I have the same form from Cartwright, Man., Wellington, V. I., and 

 Eureka, Utah. 



GEOMETRID^. 



452. Rachela bruceata. — The larva? of this species have again 

 denuded hundreds of acres of Populus tremuloides in this district 

 during the present year (1913). The denudation is greater in extent 

 than it was ten years ago, though none has been observed during the 

 intervening period. After starving themselves out on a patch of 

 poplars, they spread to neighboring species of Salix. 



453. Talledega montanata Pack. — Red Deer River, July 8th, 

 1905; Banff, June 28th— July 1st, 1907. The Banff specimens, 

 like a series from Field, B. C, are rather darker than those from 

 the prairie, and have duller secondaries. 



486. Mesoleuca hersiliata Guen. — I have taken two n-Lore 

 specimens, on August 24th, 1907, and July 24th, 1909. 



