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Other desirable species taken at various localities in the valley were: Cosymbia lwmenaria 
Hbn.; Calocalpe undulata Linn.; Dysstroma occidentata mutata Taylor; Xanthorh@ designata 
emendata Pears; Buphyia multiferata Walk.; Hpirrhe alternata Mull.; Pupithecia casloata 
Dyar; 2. castigata Hub.; and Metanema quercivoraria Gue. 
Amongst the micros two of particular interest are Pyrausta ochosalis Dyar, taken at 
- Cloverdale (only previous record from Kaslo), and P. funebris Strom., captured at Rosedale. 
> The Coleoptera and Hymenoptera have not been worked over as yet, but some work has 
- been done on the Diptera, many of which, however, await further determination. 
OpDONATA (DRAGON-FLIES ). 
A small collection of about forty specimens were recently submitted to Dr. E. M. Walker, 
of Toronto, for identification. They comprised seventeen species, three of which, it is pleasing 
to note, are species that have not previously been recorded from British Columbia, viz. :— 
Canagrion resolutum Hagen. One female taken by W. A. Newcombe at Chilcotin on June 
25th, 1915. 
Leucorrhinia intacta Hagen. Two males taken by J. A. Munro at Okanagan Landing on 
July Gth, 1916, and one male taken by W. R. Carter at Alberni on July 29th, 1915. 
Leucorrhinia borealis Hagen. One male taken by W. A. Newcombe at Chilcotin on June 
22nd, 1915. 
Hereunder we publish a list of the remaining fourteen species, with their localities, and 
hope at some future date to give a complete list of the Odonata of British Columbia, an order 
which has hitherto been somewhat neglected :— 
bs Bnallagma calverti Morse. Vancouver (. H. Blackmore). 
Enallagma cyathigerum Charp. Chilcotin (W. A. Newcombe); Cranbrook (C. Garrett). 
Enallagma carunculatum Morse. Alberni (W. R. Carter). 
Ashna interrupta nevadensis Walker. Quesnel Forks (Newcombe). 
Tetrageneuria spinigera Selys. Alberni (Carter). 
Cordulia shurtlefi Scudd. Vancouver (Blackmore); Cranbrook (Garrett). 
Libellua quadrimeulata Linn. Cranbrook (Garrett). 
Libellua lydia Drury. Cloverdale (Blackmore); Rosedale (Blackmore). 
Sympetrum scoticum Donovan. Quesnel Forks (Newcombe). 
Sympetrum costiferum Hagen. Okanagan Landing (Munro). 
Sympetrum decisum Hagen. Okanagan Landing (Munro). 
Sympetrum obtrusum Hagen. Okanagan Landing (Munro). 
Leucorrhinia glacialis Hagen. Okanagan Landing (Munro). 
Leucorrhinia hudsonica Selys. Vancouver (Blackmore); Cranbrook (Garrett). 
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RARE AND UNCOMMON INSECTS TAKEN IN British CoLUMBIA DURING 1917. 
Under this heading we propose to give a list of the rare and uncommon insects which have 
been taken during the past season at various localities in the Province of which we have any 
knowledge. Properly authenticated records of these insects from any collection in the Province 
will be gladly welcomed. It is hoped by this means to get a better knowledge of the distribution 
and geographical range of our lesser-known species, which in some instances may eventually 
prove of great economie value. 
Victoria.—During the past season the writer, with the assistance of Mr. Edward Cooke and 
Mr. Arthur Robinson, of this city, has been fortunate in taking many desirable species of noctuids 
and geometrids. 
From a pupa found in the city park I bred a splendid female specimen of Smerinthus cerisyi 
opthalmicus form pallidulus Edw. This is a very rare form and is new ‘to British Columbia. 
The ground colour is of a beautiful pale fawn, in contradistinction to the dark olive-brown 
colour of typical opthalmicus. Amongst the noctuids taken were the following uncommon 
species: Euxoa intrita reuda Streck; E. terrena Sm. (very rare); 2. divergens Walk.; 2B. 
atrifera (rare); Matuta apposita Grt.; Eriopyga infidelis Dyar; Eurotype contadina Sm.: 
Bumichtis loda Streck; Septis antennata purpurissata B. & McD. (rare): Trachea cinefacta 
Grt.; Ufcus electra, Sm.; Luperina passer Gue. (rave); and Autographa ampla Walk. This 
latter is the first record from Victoria that I know of, although it has previously been taken at 
Dunean and Wellington. 
