14 B.C. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



FURTHER ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF BRITISH 

 COLUMBIA GEOMETRIDAE 



By E. H. Blackmore. Victoria, B.C. 



This paper is really an addition "to the one that I read before you 

 at the last annual meeting (Proc. B.C. Ent. Society, No. 6, N.S., p. 116, 

 et seq.), and is induced by the fact that I have been able, during the past 

 year, to obtain several new records to be added to our list, as well as 

 finding out further changes in nomenclature which affect our British 

 Columbia Geometridae. I will deal with the new records first, keeping 

 the corrections and changes for the latter part of my paper. Altogether 

 there are over twenty species and varieties new to our British Columbia 

 List, which I have gathered from the following sources. In November 

 last, while going through a number of papered specimens collected by 

 Mr. W. H. Danby at Rossland some fifteen years ago, I found about 

 thirty specimens of Geometridae. After relaxing and setting these up 

 I was very pleased to find three species which had not previously been 

 authentically recorded. At the beginning of January I was asked by 

 the authorities at the Mount Tolmie University to re-arrange and re-label 

 the collection of the late Capt. R. V. Harvey, who was for many years 

 one of our most valued members. In the Geometrid portion I found 

 three more species which were new to the list. In my paper at the last 

 annual meeting I spoke of the captures made by Mr. E. M. Anderson 

 at Atlin in 1914, while on a general collecting trip for the Provincial 

 Museum. At that time several species of Geometridae were held over 

 for investigation, and amongst them, two more have been found new to 

 the Province. There are two from Mr. J. W. Cockle of Kaslo, as well 

 as several others apparently undescribed, and I feel sure that there will 

 be several more new records to his credit when they are thoroughly 

 worked out. Amongst material collected last season at Cranbrook by 

 Mr. C. B. Garrett for the Provincial Museum, there were a number of 

 Geometridae, three of which are new records. A very rare variety which 

 is new to Canada was captured by Mr. G. O. Day at Duncan, and I have 

 been instrumental in adding eight new records, including one species and 

 three varieties new to science. 



1 will now take them in order in which they appear in Dyar's List, 

 which is at present the classification used l^y the leading Museums of 

 North America. They are as follows : 



Carsia paludata Thunb., taken by the late Capt. Harvey in the Hope 

 Mountains on 19th July, 1906. This is an interesting capture, as its 

 regular habitat is Arctic America. I have a specimen in my own col- 

 lection from Labrador, with which it fully agrees. 



Eupithecia laisata Streck. In the summer of 1914 I took a long 

 series of E. longipalpata, and amongst them I found a short series of six 



