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of its being described from one male specimen taken at Victoria by a Mr. G. R. Crotch, who 
collected in this district, about the year 1873. Apparently this species had disappeared, and 
all the specimens taken in recent years have been named neptaria, which was described from 
California, 
The solution to this apparent disappearance lies in the fact that the two species are practi- 
eally alike in maculation, the only difference being the larger size of sinwata; therefore the 
latter is now considered to be a northern race of neptaria. 
Sinuata oceurs right across the southern portion of British Columbia from Vancouver Island 
to the Rocky Mountains. The specimen figured is typical. Neptaria must now be eliminated 
from our Check-list. 
4554. Cleora albescens Hulst. One of our very rare geometers. It was described from 
Seattle, Wash., by Hulst in Trans. Am. Ent. Socy., XXIII., p. 355, September, 1896. There are 
very few records of its capture in British Columbia. The late Rey. G. W. Taylor took it many 
years ago at Wellington; the late A. H. Bush took one specimen at Vancouver on May 22nd, 
1902; and Mr. G. O. Day took two or three at Maple Bay, near Dunean, in August, 1911; and 
although it has been diligently searched for, none have been taken since. These are the only 
authentic records that I know of. This and excelsaria Strks., which was figured in Annual 
Report of the Provincial Museum, 1917, Plate II., were previously placed in the genus Selidosema; 
but this genus, together with the genus Alcis, has been discarded, and all the species belonging 
_ to these two genera have been transferred to the genus Cleora. 
4608. Lycia ursaria Walk. This is an Atlantic States species and is entirely new to our 
fauna; it was taken by W. H. Danby at Rossland some eighteen years ago. It was described 
from Albany, N.Y., in 1860, and the type specimen is in the D’Urban collection of North America 
Lepidoptera, which is now’ the property of the Entomological Society of Ontario, and is in the 
collection of the Agricultural College at Guelph. 
4612. Gabriola dyari Tayl. Described from four male specimens taken in August, 1903, on. 
Gabriola Island, opposite Nanaimo. In his deseription (Can. Ent., Vol. XXXVI., p. 256, Septem- 
ber, 1904) Taylor says that it seems to be not uncommon on Vancouver Island and that he has 
not seen a female. It may be more common in the Nanaimo District, but it is not so in the 
vicinity of Victoria. 
I have taken four specimens (three males and one female) in six years of collecting exclu- 
sively for geometrids. The female has the same markings as the male, but is larger, the male 
measuring in alar expanse 24 mm., while the female expands to 28 mm., the antenne of the 
female is filiform, while the male antenne are heavily pectinated. 
4691. Gonodontis formosa Tulst. Taken at Lillooet on October 4th, 1917, by Mr. A. W. 
Phair. This species is new to British Columbia, and its capture so far north is rather unexpected, 
as its habitat ih Colorado and Southern California. The specimen figured is a little worn; when 
in a fresh condition it is evidently a rather handsome insect. 
* Buchlena albertanensis Swett. On looking over a collection of Lepidoptera made by 
Mr. W. Downes at Armstrong, B.C., a few years ago, I came across four specimens of a species 
of Buchlena that were decidedly different to any that I had seen before. Knowing that the 
Species going under the name of pectinaria Pack. in our British Columbia collection was wrongly 
named, I listed them provisionally as pectinaria, especially as they agreed fairly well with 
Packard's description in Mon. Geom. U.S. Geol. Survey, Vol. X., 1876. Recently in sending some 
material to Dr. MeDunnough for identification I included one of these Armstrong specimens, 
and he informs me that it is albertensis Swett. This new species was described in Can. Ent., 
Vol. 49, p. 351, October, 1917, the male type coming from Calgary, Alta., and the female type 
from Edmonton, Alta. 
Mr. Downes’s specimens comprise three males and one female, and were captured on April 
25th and 80th, 1914; they are the only specimens I have seen, although I have worked over 
considerable material taken at Vernon and Okanagan Landing during the last three years. 
Mr. Downes informs me, however, that the insect fauna of Armstrong in some respects 
differs very materially from that of Vernon, although the two localities are only twelve miles 
apart. There is more bush at Armstrong and the climate is more humid. It may be as well to 
state here that the moth going under the name of pectinaria in local collections is in reality 
BE. tigrinaria sirenaria Streck. 
