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Mr. E. P. Venables, ©f Yernon, B.C., sent me a few moths, and among 

 them to my surprise was a specimen of Sabulodes lorata, Grote, taken at Ver- 

 non, land two specimens of Kudule mendica, Walker, also taken at Vernon 

 last June. I should not have expected to find either, of thcise well known 

 eastern species west of the Jbiocky Mountains. 



Mr. E.. V. Harvey collected in the Vernon district for a few days in 

 August last and has sent me from amongst his captures : 

 Cymatophora sulphurea, Packard, taken 15th August, 1904. The first re- 

 corded from B. C, and 

 Kois Califonviaria, Packard. I think the real thing and distinct from 

 Leptomeriii siSeraria, Guenee, with which Dr. Hulst united it. 

 Mr. Harvey has also generously given me a specimen, taken in May, 

 1903, of Nyctohia viridata, Packard. I cannot see any difference between 

 this specimen and others received from New Brighton, Pennsylvania. This 

 species was made the type, by Dr. Hulst, of a new genus Cysteopteryx; but 

 though viridata is named as the type, the characters of the genus are evi- 

 dently drawn from a different insect. (See Pearsall, Can. Ent. xxxvi., p. 

 208.) Hulst afterwards redescribed this species as Agm ehorata; but this 

 of course falls before Packard's older one. 



Il appears to me that neither Cysteopteryx nor Agia can be recognilzed 

 as valid genera and that the species viridata must for the present at least 

 remain in the genus Nyctohia. 



On Vancouver Island, at Victoria, Coldstream, Duncans and Welling- 

 ton, large collections have been made. 



A new species of Eupithecia has been found in the collection of Mr. E. 

 M. Anderson and named E. harlequinaria by Dr. Dyar, and a new species 

 Gahriola Dyari has been described by myself in Can. Ent., xxxvi., p. 255. 

 Hydriomena reflata, Grote, has been taken by Mr. Anderson rather com- 

 monly at Victoria, and I owe a fine series in my collection to his 

 generosity. 

 Plagodis approximaria, Dyar. A fine pair of thi^, the most beautiful 



species in the genus, was bred by me from larvse found in Septem- 

 ber, 1903, and another specimen was taken on the wing by Mr. 

 Bryant, at Wellington, in May. 

 Pliengoinmatcra Edwardsata, Hulst. A fine specimen of this rare moth 



was given to me by Mr. Joseph Richards, of Wellington. 

 Alois Jatiperuiis, Hulst. This species occurred for the first time at Wel- 

 lington, 27 August, 1904. Mr. Bryant took it last year at Cam- 

 eron Lake in the last week of July. 

 Many other species of British Columbian Geometridse merit a place on 

 this list; but, as I am now engaged i^n preparing for publication in the 

 Canadian Entomologist, a paper on the Geometridse of this province, with 

 descriptions of a number of new species, I think it best to reserve for it the 

 bulk of my notes on the family. 



In conclusion, I should like to say that, when the above mentioned 

 paper is out of hand, I propose to attempt a revision of the North American 

 species of the very difficult genus Eupithecia. I have about 60 species in 

 my own cabinet at the present time, and I anticipate that at least 100 

 species will eventually be found to occur in North America. Very few of 

 these moths are at all well known; and, indeed, the bulk of the species 

 so far described could not be recognised by description alone or without 

 comparison with the type specimens. I shall be very grateful if collectors 

 in Canada and elsewhere will endeavour to collect series of these interesting 



