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species, which belongs to "The Aridus Group," has been named by Mr. Hine Erav harveyi in 

 honour of its collector. 



Tliysanoptera. 



In a very interesting article on " Western Tliysanoptera " by R. C. Treherne, Dominion 

 Assistant Entomologist for British Columbia, in Can. Ent, Vol. 51, p. 181, August, 1919, a new 

 species of Thrips is described from this Province under the name of JElothrips auriccstus. The 

 type material consists of nine macropterous females taken by the author from the western wild 

 rye-grass {Ehjmus condensatus) at Vernon and Kelowna in July, 1917. The author of the above 

 article is to be congratulated for the able and painstaking manner in which he has collected 

 and presented the known facts, augmented with his own observations, of the different species 

 belonging to this order occurring in British Columhia, some of which are of great economic 

 importance. The paper is illustrated with two plates, which add greatly to its usefulness. 



Illustrated Lepidopteea. 



In continuation of the idea expressed last year, of describing more fully the insects illustrated 

 in the Annual Report, we are acting in accord with the declared wisbes of the active entomologists 

 of this Province, as the commendatory letters we have received during the past year fully testify. 

 As stated in last year's Annual Report, the numbers appearing before each name correspond 

 with a similar number in Messrs. Barnes & McDunnough's Check-list of North American Lepi- 

 doptera, February, 1917. Those with a star prefixed to them have been described during the 

 year 1918. 



Dittrnals (Plate. I.). 



372. Mitoura spinetorum Bdv. This is one of our butterflies which appears to be more or 

 less local. Until quite recently only two or three specimens had been taken in the Province — 

 two, I believe, at Fairview and one at Kaslo. In a recent letter, Mr. J. W. Cockle, of the 

 latter place, remarks that he has taken a second specimen. Mr. Walter B. Andersou, Dominion 

 Inspector of Indian Orchards, while on a trip in the Boundary country early last June, took a 

 short series at Fairview and a few days later took two more at Penticton. It is an easily 

 recognized insect, as on the upper side it is nearly black in colour, with the basal half of the 

 wings shot with bluish-green. The under-side is reddish-brown, with the contrasting white 

 lines which is characteristic of this subfamily. A figure is given of the under-side, showing 

 the arrangement o.f the lines, which differ somewhat from its close ally, Hitoura nelsoni, winch 

 occurs on Vancouver Island and the Lower Fraser Valley. 



394. Callipsyclie hcltri Edw. is apparently more local than the preceding one. and so far has 

 only been taken in one district in the Province — namely, the Osoyoos District. There is a strip 

 of land extending from the boundary-line to Penticton (and including Osoyoos, Fairview. Dog 

 Bake, and Vaseaux Lake) which is the extreme tip of the Upper Sonoran fauna, and many 

 insects are taken in this district which do not occur in any other part of the Province. 



It is rather a pretty butterfly, its colour on the upper side being a bright fulvous, with wide 

 black-brown marginal bands. The specimen figured was taken by Mr. Anderson at Osoyoos in 

 the first week in June. It is an inhabitant of Northern California and Oregon, extending oast- 

 ward to Colorado. 



411. Heodcs cupreus Edw. Passing mention was made of this beautiful butterfly in the 

 Report of the Provincial Museum, 1917, page 13. It was only recently that wo were able to 

 secure a good specimen for photographic purposes, and we are glad to illustrate this species, 

 as i! is entirely new to British Columbia, and, as far as the writer knows, lias only been taken 

 on Mount McLean, near Lillooet, at an altitude of between 7,000 and 8,000 feel. It was taken 

 by Mr. A. W. A. Phair, an enthusiastic collector of Lillooet, who has done much to extend and 

 enlarge our knowledge of (be fauna of that district. It is a gorgeous little butterfly, being a 

 brighl coppery red. spoiled with black. It is exceedingly rare, and previous to 1S<G bad been 

 recorded from two localities only — namely. Mount Shasta. California, and Oregon. In that year 

 Mr. W. <;. Wright look three or lour specimens at a high altitude in the Sierra Nevadas of 

 California. It is closely allied to Hcodes snowi Edw., which is duller in colour and not so 

 heavily spotted. This latter is taken at Laggan, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies, and also in 

 the high mountain ranges of Colorado. We also have a specimen of this species in the Museum 

 collection, taken at "lioom Pass"; this locality being a local name cannot definitely be placed, 

 bin is probably in Ihe vicinity of Kevelstokc. 



