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species, which belongs to “The Aridus Group,” has been named by Mr. Hine Hraxr harveyi in 
honour of its collector. \ 
Thysanoptera. 
In a very interesting article on ‘ Western Thysanoptera” by R. C. Treherne, Dominion 
Assistant Entomologist for British Columbia, in Can. Ent., Vol. 51, p. 181, August, 1919, a new 
species of Thrips is described from this Province under the name of Mlothrips auricestus. The 
type material consists of mine macropterous females taken by the author from the western wild 
rye-grass (Elymus condensatus) at Vernon and Kelowna in July, 1917. The author of the above 
article is to be congratulated for the able and painstaking manner in which he has collected 
and presented the known facts, augmented with his own observations, of the different species 
belonging to this order occurring in British Columbia, some of which are of great economic 
importance. The paper is illustrated with two plates, which add greatly to its usefulness. 
ILLUSTRATED LEPIDOPTERA. 
Tn continuation of the idea expressed last year, of describing more fully the insects illustrated 
in the Annual Report, we are acting in accord with the declared wishes of the active entomologists 
of this Province, as the commendatory letters we have received during the past year fully testify. 
As stated in last year’s Annual Report, the numbers appearing before each name correspond 
with a similar number in Messrs. Barnes & McDunnough’s Check-list of North American Lepi- 
doptera, February, 1917. Those with a star prefixed to them have been described during the 
year 1918. 
Diurnals (Plate. I.). 
372. Mitoura spinetorum Bdy. This is one of our butterflies which appears to be more or 
less local. Until quite recently only two or three specimens had been taken in the Province— 
two, I believe, at Fairview and one at Kaslo. In a recent letter, Mr. J. W. Cockle, of the 
latter place, remarks that he has taken a second specimen. Mr. Walter B. Anderson, Dominion 
Inspector of Indian Orchards, while on a trip in the Boundary country early last June, took a 
short series at Fairview and a few days later took two more at Penticton. It is an easily 
recognized insect, as on the upper side it is nearly black in colour, with the basal half of the 
wings shot with bluish-green. The under-side is reddish-brown, with the contrasting white 
lines which is characteristic of this subfamily. A figure is given of the under-side, showing 
the arrangement of the lines, which differ somewhat from its close ally, Mitoura eS which 
occurs on Vancouver Island and the Lower Fraser Valley. 
394. Callipsyche behri Edw. is apparently more local than the preceding one, and so far has 
only been taken in one district in the Province—namely, the Osoyoos District. There is a strip 
of land extending from the boundary-line to Penticton (and including Osoyoos, Fairview, Dog 
Lake, and Vaseaux Lake) which is the extreme tip of the Upper Sonoran fauna, and many 
insects are taken in this district which do not occur in any other part of the Province. 
It is rather a pretty butterfly, its colour on the upper side heing a bright fulvous, with wide 
black-brown marginal bands. The specimen figured was taken by Mr. Anderson at Osoyoos in 
the first week in June. It is an inhabitant of Northern California and Oregon, extending east- 
ward to Colorado. 
411. Heodes cupreus Edw. Passing mention was made of this beautiful butterfly in the 
Report of the Provincial Museum, 1917, page 13. It was only recently that we were able to 
secure a good specimen for photographic purposes, and we are glad to illustrate this species, 
as it is entirely new to British Columbia, and, as far as the writer knows, has only been taken 
on Mount McLean, near Lillooet, at an altitude of between 7,000 and 8,000 feet. It was taken 
by Mr. A. W. A. Phair, an enthusiastic collector of Lillooet, who has done much to extend and 
enlarge our knowledge of the fauna of that district. It is a gorgeous little butterfly, being a 
bright coppery red, spotted with black. It is exceedingly rare, and previous to 1892 had been 
recorded from two localities only—namely, Mount Shasta, California, and Oregon. In that year 
Mr. W. G. Wright took three or four specimens at a high altitude in the Sierra Nevadas of 
California. It is closely allied to Heodes snowi Wdw., which is duller in colour and not so 
heavily spotted. This latter is taken at Laggan, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies, and also in 
the high mountain ranges of Colorado. We also have a specimen of this species in the Museum 
collection, taken at “ Boom Pass”; this locality being a local name cannot definitely be placed, 
but is probably in the vicinity of Revelstoke. 

