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‘species, the following being new to the Museum collection, viz.: Hesperumia sulphuraria form 
baltearia Hulst; Paraphia subatomaria Wood; Sabulodes cervinaria Pack.; and S. forficaria Gn. 
Other desirable species taken were as follows: Wpirrhe alternata Mull.; Xystrota hepaticaria 
Gue.: Acidalia fuscata Hulst; Bapta semiclarata Walk.; Dasyfidonia avuncularia Gue.; Drepanu- 
latric falcataria Pack.: D. pulveraria Hulst: and Spodolepsis substrialaria var. danbyi Hulst. 
Amongst the Microlepidoptera. Pyrausta funebris Strom. and Adela septentrionella Wals. were 
the most noteworthy. The Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera have not, as yet, been worked 
over, but there are many in each order new to the Museum collections. 
OKANAGAN DISTRICT. 
Mr. J. A. Munro collected in the neighbourhood of Okanagan Landing from April 20th until 
September 28th. 
Trips were made to the Nahun Plateau, twenty miles south of Okanagan Landing, where 
some good insects were taken at an altitude of 3,200 feet. In June five days were spent aft 
Shuswap Falls, about thirty miles east of Vernon; the insect fauna here is somewhat different 
from that in the vicinity of Okanagan Landing, and a representative collection of some 200 
insects were taken during the week. The total number of insects taken during the season was 
1.118, comprising: Lepidoptera, 730; Coleoptera, 184; Hymenoptera, 101; Diptera, 45; and 58 
of various other orders. Amongst the butterflies worthy of notice were Parnassius smintheus 
yar. magnus Wright: Papilio bairdii var. oregonia Edw.; Argynnis leto Behr.; A. meadii Edw. ; 
@neis chryrus Db.-Hew.; Nomiades lydgamas var. oro Seud.; Cupido icarioides var. pembina 
Edw.:; Lrynnis comma var. manitoba Seud.: and Pholisora catullus Fab. 
(In the above list V. lydgamas var. oro Seud. is new to British Columbia; it has been 
probably associated with N. lydgamas var. behrii in Mainland collections, the males of these two 
forms bearing a close resemblance to each other. They are in the males differentiated by the 
much paler blue of the upper side of oro; in the females they are more easily separated, oro 
being of a uniform smoky brown with a few blue scales scattered at the base of the wing, while 
behrii is blue with a broad black border. The ground colour of the under side of oro is brown, 
that of behrii a light stone colour; the maculation is practically the same in both forms. Cupido 
icarioides var. pembina is also a new name to the British Columbia list. This insect has been 
masquerading under no less than four different names during the last fifteen years—viz., pheres, 
fulla, phileros, and lycea.) 
The weather conditions were much better during the summer months in the Okanagan 
District than they were west of the Cascade Range; consequently the noctuid moths taken were 
greater, both in number and variety, than those taken in the Lillooet District during the same 
period. In the Catocalwe two species were taken new to British Columbia—a short series of 
Catocala faustina var. caerulea Edw. and a single specimen of C. californica Hy. Edw. A 
beautiful specimen of the rare C. relicta Walk. was also taken at sugar on August 25th. 
Other specimens wortby of record are the following: Caradrina ertimia Walk.; Rhyncha- 
grotis rufipectus Morr.; R. variata Grt.; Abagrotis erratica Sm.; Poresagrotis catenula Grt.; 
Mamestra discalis Gue.; Heliothis scutosus Fabr.; Heliaca nevilis Morr.; and Syneda annera 
Hy. Edw. 
The Geometride were far below the average both in quantity and quality, although two 
species new to the Museum collection were taken—Eudule mendica Walk. and Sabulodes lorata 
Grt. Other desirable species taken were Cosymbia lumenaria Hub.; Acidalia subfuscata Taylor ; 
aud Metanema inatomaria Guen. 
The Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera still await classification and determination. 
Many of them, however, are new to the Museum collections, especially in the order Coleoptera. 
VicrortIA DIstricr. 
The following list of noctuids taken in the vicinity of Victoria during the past season by 
Mr. E. H. Blackmore, of this city, are of more than passing interest, as the first three are new 
to British Columbia, while the others are of rare occurrence: Rhynchagrotis morrisonistigma 
Grt.; Scotogramma trifolit var. ulbifusa Walk.: Bomolocha palparia Walk.; Cerma cuerva 
Barnes; Hadena plutonia Grt.; Epidemas melanographa Hamp.; Polia radix Walk.; Pyrophila 
tragopoginis Linn.: Adelphayrotis apposita Grt.: Buroa costata Grt.: Polia restora Sm.; 
Zosteropoda hirtipes Grt.; Stretchia muricina Grt.; Nylina dilatocula Sm.; Helotropha reni- 
formis Grt.; and Ipimorpha nanaimo Barnes. 
