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from Vancouver Island. Until undoubted specimens of brucei are taken in British Columbia I 
think it is better to eliminate this species from our E.C. Check-list. 
Pterophorus (Oidematophorus) paleaceus Zell. Recorded from Wellington. Specimens 
under this name in the Bryant collection did not seem to agree with the description of that 
species and were submitted to Dr. Lindsey, who pronounced them to be “ rather large specimens 
of corvus B. & L., not quite typical, but certainly not paleaceus Zell.” 
Pterophorus (Oidematophorus) eupdtorii Fern. This record in our list was copied from 
Dyar’s Catalogue (Bull. 52, U.S.N.M.), wherein he gives Vancouver Island, together with New 
York and California, as localities for this species. Barnes and Lindsey in their “ Revision” give 
a detailed discussion of eupatorii ern., guttatus Wals., and mathewianus Zell., three very closely 
allied species and which have given rise to a great deal of confusion in the past. The conclusions 
arrived at show that et(patorii is distinctly Eastern aud does not occur on the Pacifie slope. 
In concluding this paper on the British Columbia Pterophoridw, I would like to point out 
two important pieces of biological work that remain for our local entomologists to undertake, 
and that is the working-out of the life-histories of (1) Platyptilia pallidactyla Haw. and pica 
Wals., and (2) P. carduidactyla Riley and perenodactyla Wals. Careful breeding from the ova 
of known females, full notes on the different larval instars, together with careful comparison of 
the resulting imagines, will do much to prove the specific identity or otherwise of the species 
indicated. 
The following family, with its one North American species, is included here as it is so very 
closely allied to the Pterophoridie. 
FAMILY ALUCITIDAE LINN. 
Genus ALUCITA Linn. 
Alucita Linnzeus, Syst. Nat. (Id. X.), 1, 542, 1758. 
Orneodes Latreille, Precis. Car. Ins. 148, 1796. 
Characters: Ocelli present. Proboscis well developed. Labial palpi strong. Both primaries 
and secondaries deeply cleft into six lobes each. The under-surface of the secondaries lacks 
the black scales which occur in the Pterophoridie, aud the legs are of normal length. 
1. ALUCITA MONTANA Cockerell, Ent. Mo. Mag., XXY., 213, 1889. 
Orneodes heradactyla Fernald (not Linn.), List. Lep. No. Amer., 88, 1891. 
Primaries greyish-tawny, crossed by a wide dark-brown median band margined narrowly 
with white, which forks on the first two lobes; a subterminal band, narrower. on the first two 
lobes, is also margined with white. Secondaries checkered with dark brown, tawny, and white. 
This species is the Orneodoes heradactyla of our local lists, a European species with which 
our North American species has generally been considered conspecific, but according to Barnes 
and Lindsey hexedactyla is much lighter and more ochreous in general appearance and entirely 
lacks pure white scales. 
Montana has a wide distribution in North America, occurring from Vancouver Island to 
Ontario and from New York to California. 
List oF REFERENCES. 
1921. Barnes, W., and Lindsey, A. W. The Pterophoridze of America, North of Mexico 
(Cont. Lep. No. Amer., Vol. IV., No. 4). 
1902. Dyar, H. G. List of North American Lepidoptera (Bull. 52, U.S. National Systein). 
1904. Dyar, H. G. The Lepidoptera of the Kootenai District of British Columbia (Pro. 
U.S.N.M., pages 779-938). 
1895. Meyrick, Edw. Handbook of British Lepidoptera. 
1910. Meyrick, Edw. Fam. Pterophorid:e (Genera Insectorum Fasc., 100). 
1918. Meyrick, Edw. Exotic Microlepidoptera, Vol. I., Pt. 4, page 112. 
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