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I have ever seen. Heretofore the species has not been recorded 

 anywhere nearly so far north-west. 



CiRROEDiA PAMPINA Gn., August 27 ; one specimen of the 

 normal form. Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod has taken at Calgary a 

 series of a remarkably pale form of this species which gives a 

 strange impression and seemed, at first, to indicate a good 

 species. More abundant material, however, proved it to be a 

 local and by no means constant variety, intergrading with the 

 typical form. 



Drasteria distincta Neum., May 26 (2); June 3 (i) ; 

 June 4 (l) ; June 20 (i). This interesting little form seems to 

 have its home in this region. It has been referred as a variety 

 of crassluscula, and may eventually prove to be such. I have 

 a specimen of crassiuscida from Long Island that would easily 

 pass for distincta, except that it lacks that the peculiar 

 livid or bluish tinge that allies distincta to coindea. The latter 

 species is recorded from California, but I have it also from 

 Oregon, Washington, Vancouver and British Columbia. Cal- 

 gary seems to be the point of meeting between crassiuscula and 

 ccerulea, and distincta appears to be intermediate between the, 

 two. Larger collections to the east and to the west of this 

 locality will prove of great interest. 



Philometra gaosalis Wlk., August 4 ; one male of 

 normal type. The species is here close to the recorded western 

 limit of its rang^e. 



