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/Bucoa lindseyi Blackmore. Described (Can. Ent., Vol. 55, page 214, Sept., 1925) from seven 
specimens—five taken by the writer at Victoria, B.C., and Goldstream, B.C., and two from the 
Barnes collection, one taken at Victoria, B.C., and one at Calgary, Alta. 
Oncocnemis parvanigra Blackmore. Described (ibidem, page 215) from four specimens— 
three taken at Kaslo (J. W. Cockle) and one at Mount McLean (A. W. Hanham). 
Litholomia napwa umbrifasciata Blackmore. Described (ibidem, page 216) from fifteen 
specimens taken by the writer at Victoria, B.C. 
Further notes on the above will be found under “ Illustrated Lepidoptera ” and illustrations 
of each species on Plate V. 
Geometridae, 
Enypia venata ab. elaborata Cassino & Swett. Described (Lepidopterist, Vol. 1V., page 13, 
June, 1923) from a single male taken at Wellington, B.C., by the late Rev. G. W. Taylor on 
July 2nd, 1904. 
This striking form differs from the type in having the fore wings pure white and the usual 
venular dots merged into a wide suffused black band. We may say here that venata is fairly 
common on Vancouver Island and is extremely variable both in coloration and markings. In 
the writer’s series of about thirty specimens they range in colour from a light stone grey to a 
rich warm brown. 
Gelechida. 
Gelechia trichostola Meyrick. Described (Jixotie Microlepidoptera, Vol. IIL, page 22, June, 
1923) from two specimens taken at Victoria, B.C., in September, 1919, by Dr. A. J. Turner, of 
Brisbane, Queensland. 
I have a long series of previously undetermined Gelechia which I have identified as the 
above species. They were taken by the writer on various dates in March and September, and 
agree with the description in size, colour, and maculation. They were all taken at rest either 
on the trunk or the foliage of the scrub oak (Quereus Garryana). It is evidently a hybernating 
species. 
The male measures 19 m.m. in expanse, with the female slightly smaller. It is brown in 
colour, irregularly suffused with dark fuscous irroration. On the fore wing is a small black 
linear mark beneath costa near the base, and an elongate black spot at the base of the inner 
margin; a few whitish scales between first and second discal dots and an angulated transverse 
streak of brown ground colour about three-quarters out from base. Ilind wings grey, fringe pale 
grey. A distinguishing character in the male is a very long dark-grey pencil of hair underneath 
the hind wings, extending from base of costa to beneath posterior portion of cell. 
Olethreutider (Eucosmine). 
Thiodia fertoriana Heinrich. Described (Revision No. Amer. Eucosmine, Bull. 123, U.S.N.M., 
page 264, April, 1923) from three specimens taken at Goldstream, B.C., on May 10th, 1903. 
The specimens were found amongst the undescribed material in the collection of Dr, Wm. 
Barnes, and although not bearing the collector’s name were in all probability taken by Mr. A. W. 
Hanham, who collected in that district at that period. 
Eucosma metariana Ueinrich. Described (ibidem, page 133) from nine specimens—six taken 
at Shasta Retreat, Calif.; two at Ilot Springs, Green River, Wash.; and one at Victoria, B.C. 
(Blackmore). (See “* Illustrated Lepidoptera.” ) ' 
Epiblema purpurissata Heinrich. Described (ibidem, page 149) from two specimens bred 
from wild rose at Vernon, B.C. 
Epiblema periculosana Heinrich. Deseribed (ibidem, page 268) from three specimens taken 
on Mount McLean, near Lillooet, B.C., by A. W. Hanham. 
Epinotia digitana Heinrich. Described (ibidem, page 215) from two specimens—the type 
taken at Kaslo, B.C., by Dr. IL. G. Dyar on July 28th, 1903, and the paratype taken by Professor 
Cc. V. Piper at Pullman, Wash. This is the same insect that had been determined by Kearfott 
as transmissana Walk. and is so listed in Dyar’s Kootenai List and the Cheek-list of British 
Columbia Lepidoptera (1906). 
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