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disadvantage, as his material was very sc;inty and tlie collection in the 

 U.S. National Museum at that time was exceedingly poor in this genus. 

 They are as follows : E. laquaearia H-S., named from a single specimen, 

 turned out to be E. albicapitata Pack., and the latter name must be sub- 

 stituted for it. This has also been taken at Cowichan Lake. E. laricata 

 Freyer was also named from a single specimen in Mr. Cockle's collection, 

 but Mr. Taylor, with more abundant material and a careful comparison 

 with British specimens, described it as new in the Can. Ent., Dec, 1906, 

 under the name of E. perbrunneata. 



E. satyrata Hub. is European and should have been the E. perfusca 

 of Hulst, and as both names appear in our list, satyrata must be 

 struck of?. 



In the Trans. N.Y. Ent. Socy., 1913, p. 189, Mr. R. F. Pearsall 

 revised the genus Philobia, with the result that the enotata of Dyar's 

 list turns out to be aemulataria Walker, which is a smaller species occur- 

 ring in the Eastern United States. The species that we have always 

 listed under the name of enotata he has described as ulsterata from 

 specimens taken in British Columfiia and the Catskill Mountains. N.Y. 

 The B.C. specimens are a trifle larger but otherwise the same. We 

 must, therefore, revise our list accordingly. 



Doctors Barnes and McDunnough in their "Contrib. Lepidoptera of 

 North America, \^ol. 2, No. 5," tell us that the names Mesoleuca inter- 

 mediata Gue., and M. lacustrata Gue. have been interchanged at some 

 time or other. Dr. McDunnough who visited Europe in the autumn of 

 1913, saw Guenee's type of intermediata in Paris, and says it is the 

 species which is commonly known here as lacustrata. This is the form 

 with white subterminal area and large discal spot. Therefore in future 

 our present lacustrata will be known as intermediata, and vice versa. 

 They also tell us that Petrophora abrasaria H.S. is typically European, 

 and that our species should be called congregata Walk. In the same 

 paper, on p. 212. they give the name of ornata to the summer form of 

 Eutrapela alciphearia Walk. This form is much smaller and of a 

 brighter yellow on the upper side ; they both occur on Vancouver Island. 



I have brought with me a case containing the majority of the species 

 and varieties mentioned in this paper, in the hope that it may be of some 

 interest to my fellow-members. 



Before concluding, I would like to say a few words in regard to the 

 preparation of a new Check List of B.C. Lepidoptera, to which necessity 

 I called attention at our last Annual Meeting. As you are all probably 

 aware, the Geometrid portion was entrusted to me for revision, and I had 

 hoped to have had my part ready for the printer this spring. I find, 

 however, that although I have been at work on this part for the past 

 five months, there is still much more remaining to be done, if we are to 

 have a thoroughly representative list. There are two main reasons why 



