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. lobe with a row of dark dots. Fringes concolorous, those in cleft with dark areas just before 
: apices of both lobes. Secondaries grey-brown, bases paler; fringes slightly more tawny. 
-- Expanse 21-29 mm, 
) The only record of this species in British Columbia are some specimens taken at South Fork, 
Kaslo Creek, by Mr. Cockle on August 10th, 1903. Other specimens sent by Mr. Cockle from 
. Kaslo as this species are worn specimens of occidentalis. The type series was taken in the 
| Siskiyou Mountains, South Oregon, and were bred from larve feeding on a species of Helianthus. 
r The species has also been taken in Colorado. 
8. OmaeMATOPHORUS HOMODACTYLUS Walker, List. Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus., XXX., 941, 1864. 
Primaries snowy white, in some specimens with a slight irroration of brownish-grey in costal 
half. Cleft sometimes preceded at a short distance by a small brownish dot. Secondaries tinged 
4 with greyish. Head, thorax, and abdomen snowy white. The mid-tibie have a fringe of scales 
down the inside, but no tufts. 
“It is evidently a mountainous species in this Province, as our records are from Hope 
Mountains, July (Day and Harvey) ; Mount McLean, August (Day and Hanham) ; and Vavenby, 
August (Moilliet). The Mount McLean specimens wefe taken at an elevation of 5,000 feet. 
| The species occurs throughout Canada from British Columbia to Quebec, south into New Jersey 
: and Illinois. It has also been taken in California. 
9. OIDAZMATOPHORUS STRAMINEUS Walsingham, Pter. Cal., Ore., 41, 1880. 
. Lioptilus augustus Walsingham, Pter, Cal., Ore., 45, 1880. 
Primaries usually yellow or yellowish, occasionally somewhat ochreous. There is at least 
| a trace of a brown spot contiguous to the base of the cleft; in some specimens this spot is well 
marked. In most specimens a heavy brown shade runs from the base next to the inner margin 
into the first lobe. Fringes more greyish. Secondaries greyish with fringes concolorous. 
Expanse 15-21 mm. Thorax yellow. Abdomen yellow with brown dorsal stripes. Palpi 
: slender, moderate, oblique; tips of second and third joints touched with fuscous outside. 
4 This is the species that is listed as stramineus in our local lists. Stramineus was described 
_from specimens taken in the Siskiyou Mountains, South Oregon, in June, and augustus from a 
series taken on Mount Shasta, California, in August. The types are in the British Musewn. 
. Mr. Edw. Meyrick has compared specimens with the types for Messrs. Barnes and Lindsey, and 
the latter have also compared specimens with Fernald’s paratypes and are unable to find any 
specific differences between them. The species is very variable in appearance, due to the 
inconstancy of the brown shade on the primaries. Mr. Day has taken a specimen at Quamichan 
Lake, near Duncan, the only record we have for Vancouver Island. The same collector also 
took the species in the Hope Mountains in 1908. Mr. Cockle has it from Kaslo and Dr. Dyar 
took a long series at Ainsworth in June and July, 1903. In his note on the species Dyar states 
that “ The moths were easily started up from low grass and weeds, but especially from the plant 
Anaphalis margaratacea, which I suppose is their food-plant. Laryze were found commonly in 
the flower-heads of this plant, but unfortunately were not bred.” 
10. Orpz2MATOPHORUS coryUS Barnes and Lindsey, Cont. Lep. No. Amer., Vol. LY., No. 4, page 
427, 1921. Primaries clear pale yellow in the lightest specimens, with some brown scales near 
base, sometimes a small brown dot a short distance before base of cleft, and sometimes a brown 
sub-costal shade which meets the costa in the first lobe. In the type series these wings have a 
pale-yellowish or greyish-yellow costal band from base to a point opposite base of cleft, in which 
the extreme costal margin bears some brown scales. Behind this the entire wing is clothed 
with brownish-grey mixed with very pale-yellowish scales, becoming more whitish toward inner 
margin. The spot before the cleft is faintly marked and is continued slightly toward costa to 
form a transverse shade. Costal fringes on first lobe yellowish, others dark greyish. Secondaries 
brownish-grey fringes concolorous. In pale specimens the secondaries appear dark in contrast 
to the yellow primaries. Expanse 17-20 mm. Palpi moderate, slender, oblique, yellowish-white 
with a brown outer line. Thorax pale yellow. Abdomen pale yellow to pale greyish-yellow with 
a fine light-brown dorsal line. 
This new ‘species was described from twenty specimens taken at Tuolumne Meadows and 
Deer Park Springs, Lake Tahoe, California. It has also been taken in Washington and 
Colorado. 
It is apparently widely distributed in British Columbia, specific localities being Goldstrea:n 
(Blackmore) ; Wellington (Bryant) ; Fraser Mills (Marmont) ; Kaslo (Cockle) ; and Cranbrook 
(Garrett). 
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