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DIPTERA. 
In the Annals of the Ent. Socy. of America, Vol. XTI., No. 4, December, 1918, Mr. F. W. Pettey 3 
gives “A revision of the genus Sciara of the family Mycetophilide. In the course of his x 
revision he describes some thirty new species from North America, two ef which are from British _ 
Columbia. The first is Neosicara lobosa, described from one male collected at Carbonate, B.C., — 
by a Mr. J. C. Bradley in Juiy, 1908, at an altitude of 2,600 feet. Carbonate is situated about 
twenty miles south-east of Golden. 
The other is Neosciara ovata, described from one male taken at Howser, B.C., by Mr. Bradley 
on June 22nd, 1905. Howser is situated on the Lardeau River about thirty-five miles north of 
Kaslo. It would be as well to state here that Neosciara is a new genus erected by Mr. Pettey, 
to include those species which have no setie on the cubitus and media, and which would formerly 
have been placed under the old genus Sciara, which have set on these veins. 
Two species of the genus Drapetis, belonging to the family Empididie, are described by — 
A. L. Melander in the Annals of Ent. Socy. Amer., Vol. XI., No. 2, June, 1918. The first is | 
Drapetis aliternigra, which is very widely distributed, it being found in New York, Massachusetts, 
Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, and British Columbia. The second is Drapetis infwmata, 
described from two specimens, the type specimen being taken at Nelson, B.C., on July 17th, 1910, 
and the paratype at Priest Lake, Idaho, on August 1st, 1915. : 
Sarcophaga vancouverensis Parker is described in the Can. Ent., Vol. L., No. 4, p. 122, April, 
1918. This new species was described from eight specimens (seven males and one female) taken 
by Mr. R. S. Sherman on Sayary Island, B.C., and at Vancouver, B.C., on various dates from 
May 12th to July 3rd, 1916. 
We extend our congratulations to Mr. Sherman on his discovery of a new species, as he has 
done so much to advance our knowledge of the dipterous fauna of this Province. 
We would like to mention an article written by Dr. A. E. Cameron (who was Dominion 
Field Officer in charge of the pear-thrips investigation at Royal Oak, B.C., for two years) and 
published in the Annals of the Ent. Soey. Amer., Vol. XI., No. 1, March, 1918. The article is 
entitled the “ Life-history of the Leaf-eating Crane-fly, Cylindrotoma splendens Doane.’ It gives 
a complete account of its habits and its life-history from the egg to the image. 
It is illustrated with some very fine drawings by the author, representing the lary and its 
most important parts, the pupa and the image. The larye of this crane-fly was discovered at 
Westholme, on Vancouver Island, some forty miles north of Victoria. The value of the discovery — 
lies in the fact that this represents the first finding of the immature stages of any species of this 
genus on the American Continent. 


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ILLUSTRATED LEPIDOPTERA. 
We have thought that it may be of more interest and benefit to the entomologists in various 
parts of the Province to describe more fully the insects illustrated in the plates contained in the 
Annual Reports of the Provincial Museum, and a beginning is made with those moths figured on — 
the two plates accompanying this article. The species in the following annotated list are given 
in their proper scientific order, the numbers appearing before each name corresponding with a 
similar number in Messrs. Barnes and MecDunnough’s Check-list of No. Amer. Lepidoptera, — 
February, 1917. Those with a star prefixed to them have been described since that list was — 
published. 5 
Noctuip (PLATE I.). 
1815. Euxoa quinquelinea Sm. This is a moth that has not hitherto heen recorded from 
British Columbia. Recently, upon working over a collection of noctuids made by Mr. W. H. 
Danby at Rossland, B.C., some twenty years ago, I found several species that were entirely new 
to me. These were subsequently submitted to Dr. J. MeDunnough, of Decatur, Ill., for identi- 
fication, some of them proving new to British Columbia. This species is one of them; it is 
evidently a mountain species, as its habitat is the Sierra Nevadas of California. 
B. lutulenta, which was also described by Dr. J. B. Smith at the same time (vide Trans. — 
Am. Ent. Soey., XVITI., p. 50, 1960), is now placed as a geographical race of quinquelinea. We 
also have a specimen of this form taken at Vernon, B.C., in 1916. 
1682. Polia negussa Sm. This was also taken by Mr. Danby at Rossland, B.C., in 1898, and 
is also new to British Columbia. It was described by Smith in the Can. Ent., XXXII., August, 
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