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figure is not very good of it. The species, however, does not re- 

 semble inconcinna in the very least The type of that species, a 

 female from Colorado, is in the Washington collection, and I 

 associate it closely with Mamestra oregonica and M. morana. The 

 description says; "It agrees with suhmarina in the peculiar modi- 

 fication of the last ventral segment, which is carinate at middle 

 * and foveate at each side." This seems as applicable to morana 

 Smith as it is to suhmarma. Under perplexa I have in my collection 

 specimens from Calgary and Laggan, Alta., Kaslo nd Nelson, 

 B. C, and Provo, Utah. Those from the latter locality are the 

 palest of the series, and are evidently the same species as that 

 figured by Barnes and McDunnough from Stockton undvr this 

 name. The series show 5 considerable variation in the distribution 

 of the shades, and the paler specimens are nearer sedilis, which 

 seems only a variety. Dr. Dyar records it as sedilis in the Kootenai 

 list, and the sedilis of Sir George Hampson does not differ. Mr, 

 Sanson has taken the species at Banff, July 15th to 27th. Sub- 

 fuscula Grote is doubtfully distinct. 



(To be continued.) 



THE BEE GENUS HOPLITELLA. 

 In Canadian Entomologist, 1910, I described a genus of bees 

 from California as Hoplitella. I now find that the same name was 

 applied by Davidson in 1909 to a genus of Bryozoa. I propose to 

 change the name of the bee to Tloplitina; type Hoplitina pentamera 

 iCkn.)= Hoplitella pentamera Ckll. 1910. 



T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



Hepialus auratus Grote. — I am glad to be able to report hav- 

 ing captured a specimen of this beautiful moth at St. Therese 

 Island, about 3 miles from St. Johns, Que., on July 10, 1912. This 

 is the second specimen recorded from Canada, the other having 

 been taken by Dr. Fyles in Brome Co., Que., in July, 1865. 



G. Chagnon, Montreal. 



