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British Columbia butterflies. It belongs to the family Nymphalidie and is closely allied to the 
“genus Argynnis. It has a wide distribution throughout the United States and South America, 
being essentially a southern insect. 
New British CoLuMsBIA INSECTS. 
The following ten insects have been described as new to science during the year 1919, and 
- comprise seyen species of Lepidoptera, two species of Diptera, and one of Thysanoptera. 
Lepidoptera, 
- Plebeius icarioides blackmorei Barnes & McDunnough is described in the Can. Ent., Vol. 51, 
_ p. 92, April, 1919, from a number of specimens taken by the writer at Goldstream on May 31st, 
- 1918. More extended remarks on this new race will be found under the heading of “ Illustrated 
Lepidoptera.” 
In the Journal New York Ent. Socy., Vol. XXVII., Nos. 2 and 3, June and September, 1919, 
Dr. R. Ottolengui describes several new species and races of the genus Autographa (Noctuide), 
amongst which are two from British Columbia. Auwlographa magnifica described from a single 
female taken at Ucluelet, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It was taken by a member of 
the Forestry Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture. The type is in the Canadian 
National Museum at Ottawa. 
The other is Autographa rectangula nargenta and was described from material belonging 
to Mr. J. W. Cockle, of Kaslo, B.C., and Mr. A. W. Hanham, of Duncan, B.C. This is the 
rectangula of our check-lists, which is really an Eastern species. 
The chief distinguishing characteristic of this new race is the transverse posterior line, which 
is distinct and geminate, the space between being filled with silver. 
In the Lepidopterist, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 105 et seq., July 15th, 1919, Messrs. Swett & Cassino 
describe four species of geometers belonging to the genus Hupithecia. Tiwo of these are from 
British Columbia, viz.: (1) Bupithecia probata, described from specimens taken at Duncan and 
Victoria, and (2) Lupithecia moirata, taken by E. M. Anderson at Penticton in 1913. Both these 
new species will be treated of more fully under the same heading as the preceding. 
Microlepidoptera, 
In the Proc. Ent. Socy. Wash., Vol. 21, No. 3, March, 1919, under the title of “ Two Micro- 
lepidoptera injurious to Strawberry,” Mr. August Busck describes two new “ Micros” from 
specimens taken by Mr. W. Downes, Dominion Junior Entomologist at Victoria, B.C. The first is 
Tortricodes fragariana, and, according to the author, is the first published record of this genus 
in North America. Mr. Downes says that this species breeds commonly in the buds at the head 
of the crowns of strawberry. 
The second is Aristotelia fragaria, and, according to Mr. Busck, is the so-called “ strawberry- 
-_ erown borer,” on which there is considerable economic literature, but whieh had not previously 
received a specific name. The first species belongs to the family Tortricidse and has the fore 
wings brownish fuscous in colour, overlaid with black and reddish scates; the hind wings are 
much lighter, being a silvery grey. It is a small moth measuring 17 mm. in alar expanse, The 
second species, Aristotelia fraygaria, is a member of the family Gelechiidze and is a much smaller 
insect, being only 12 min. in width when spread. In colour it is dark brown, with the hind 
wings lighter. 
Diptera, 
In an article on “The Streptocera Group of the Dipterous Genus Tipula Linn,” Annals Ent. 
Soey Amer., Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 84, June, 1919, Dr. W. G. Dietz describes some half-dozen new 
species, one of which is recorded from Victoria, B.C., under the name of Tipula trypetophora. 
It is described from nine specimens, two males and seven females, all from Victoria, and 
apparently on the same date, July 6th, 1912, but who the captor was is not stated. This is one 
of the crane-flies. 
Mr. Jas. S. Hine, in an exhaustive review of the “ Robber-flies of the Genus Hrax” (idem, 
p. 103), describes quite a number of new species in the various groups of this genus. 
One amongst them is particularly interesting to us, as the two specimens from which they 
were described were taken by the late Captain R. V. Harvey at Vernon in August, 1904. The 
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