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British Columbia butterflies. It belongs to the family Nymphalidae and is closely allied to the 

 genus Argynnis. It lias a wide distribution throughout the United States and South America, 

 being essentially a southern insect. 



New Beitisii Columbia Insects. 



The following ten insects have been described as new to science during the year 1919, and 

 comprise seven species of Lepidoptera, two species of Diptera, and one of Thysanoptera. 



Lepidoptera. 



Plcheius icarioides black morel Barnes & McDunnough is described in the Can. Ent., Vol. 51, 

 p. 92, April, 1919, from a number of specimens taken by the writer at Coldstream on May 31st, 

 1918. More extended remarks on this new race will be found under the heading of " Illustrated 

 Lepidoptera." 



In the Journal New York But. Socy., Vol. XXVII., Nos. 2 and 3, June and September, "1919, 

 Dr. R. Ottolengui describes several new species and races of the genus Autographa (Noctuid;e), 

 amongst which are two from British Columbia. Autographa magnified described from a single 

 female taken at Ucluelet, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It was taken by a member of 

 the Forestry Branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture. The type is in the Canadian 

 National Museum at Ottawa. 



The other is Autographa rcctangula nargenta and was described from material belonging 

 to Mr. J. W. Cockle, of Kaslo, B.C., and Mr. A. W. Hankam, of Duncan, B.C. This is the 

 rectangula of our check-lists, which is really an Eastern species. 



The chief distinguishing characteristic of this new race is the transverse posterior line, which 

 is distinct and geminate, the space between being filled with silver. 



In the Lepidopterist, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 105 ct seq.', July 15th, 1919, Messrs. Swett & Cassino 

 describe four species of geometers belonging to the geuus Eupithccla. Two of these are from 

 British Columbia, viz.: (1) Eupithccla probata, described from specimens taken at Duncan and 

 Victoria, and (2) Eupithccla moirata, taken by E. M. Anderson at Pentieton in 1913. Both these 

 new species will be treated of more fully under the same heading as the preceding. 



Mlcrolepidoptera. 



In the Troc. Ent. Socy. Wash., Vol. 21, No. 3, March, 1919, under the title of " Two Mlcro- 

 lepidoptera injurious to Strawberry," Mr. August Busck describes two new " Micros " from 

 specimens taken by Mr. W. Downes, Dominion Junior Entomologist at Victoria, B.C. The first is 

 Tortricodcs fragariana, and, according to the author, is the first published record of this genus 

 in North America. Mr. Downes says that this species breeds commonly in the buds at the head 

 of the crowns of strawberry. 



The second is Aristotelia fragaria; and, according to Mr. Busck, is the so-called " strawberry- 

 crown borer," on which there is considerable economic literature, but which had not previously 

 received a specific name. The first species belongs to the family Tortricida? and has the fore 

 wings brownish fuscous in colour, overlaid with black and reddish scales; the hind wings arc 

 much lighter, being a silvery grey. It is a small moth measuring 17 mm. in alar expanse. The 

 second species, Aristotelia -fragaria, is a member of the family Celecbihbe and is a much smaller 

 insect, being only 12 mm. in width when spread. In colour at is dark brown, with the hind 

 wings lighter. 



Diptera. 



In an article on "The Streptocera Group of the Dipterous Genus Tipula Mini," Annals Ent. 

 Socy Amer., Vol. 12, No., 2, p. 84, June, 1019, Dr. Yv". G. Dietz describes some half-dozen new 

 species, one of which is recorded from Victoria, B.C.. under the name of Tipula trypMophora. 

 It is described from nine specimens, two males and seven females, all from Victoria, and 

 apparently on the same date, July Gtb, 1912, but who the captor was is not slated. This is one 

 of the crane-flies. 



Mr. Jas. S. Hine, in an exhaustive review of the "Robber-flies of the Genus Erax" (idem. 

 p. 103), describes quite a number of new species in the various groups of Ibis genus. 



One amongst them is particularly interesting to us, as the two specimens from which they 

 were described were taken by the late Captain R. V. Harvey at Vernon in August. 1001. The 



