THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



scutellum, and the legs below the middle of the coxse, except the distal 

 five-sixths of the posterior tibiae, white ; the abdomen beyond the first 

 segment rufous ; the head and mesonotum sparsely punctured ; the third 

 segment of the antenna distinctly longer than the fourth ; antennae with 

 about twenty-four segments; the median foveas wanting; the median ocellus 

 located in a heart-shaped depression ; the frontal declivity broadly and 

 deeply broken by the antennal furrows ; wings hyaline, the veins and 

 stigma brown. Length 9 mm. 



Habitat. — St. John, New Brunswick. 



Described from two males and a female received from Dr. C. Gordon 

 Hewitt, Division of Entomology, Ottawa, Canada, where the type is depos- 

 ited. These specimens were reared from larvae received from St. John, 

 New Brunswick. The larvae feed on the leaves of raspberry (see Annual 

 Report of Experimental Farms for year 1899 (1900), pp. 180-181). The 

 The species is named for the late Dr. James Fletcher. 



This species is near rubi Rohwer and dentatus. 



SMERINTHUS CERISYI KIRBY AND SMERINTHUS OPH- 

 THALMICUS BDV. 



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



It is not very often that I take notes on Sphingidae, or take much 

 notice of them at all outside my own district; but recent observations 

 casually brought to my notice the fact that two good species were probab- 

 ly involved under the above two names, though I had long ago taken it 

 for granted that such was not the case, and I became immediately interes- 

 ted, and followed the matter up. My first observation in the matter was 

 made while I was somewhat hastily glancing through this family in Mr. 

 Winn's collection at Montreal last January. Thereon I wrote : " Under 

 cerisyi, two specimens, Biddeford, Me. and Montreal ; have much crenate 

 s. t. lines and apical mark almost lupate as in gâ?}iinatus,'' and "two from 

 B. C. under opthalmicus have lines fairly even, wavy, and apical marks not 

 lunate." Shortly afterwards, whilst in England, I compared this note with 

 Kirby's figure and concluded that it must really represent the form I have 

 so long known as cerisyi at Calgary which is the one Mr. Winn has taken 

 on the east coast. Kirby's figure is probably somewhat exaggerated, and 

 has the apical mark almost as lunate, well defined and contracting as gem- 

 inatus. The dark marks near the anal angle of primaries are also more 



October, 1912 



