7 Geo, 5 Provincial Museum Report. ' Q 23 



species, the following being new to the Museum collection, viz.: Bespenimia stllpliurariq form 

 halt' aria Hulst; I'arapliia svbatomaria Wood; Sabulodes ccrrinaria Pack.; and S. forficaria Gn. 

 other desirable species taken were as follows: Epirrhm alternata Mull.: Xyslrota Uepaticaria 

 Que.: Acidalia fitxcata Hulst: Bapta semiclarata Walk.; Dasiifidonia avitncularia Gue. ; Drepanu- 

 latrix falcatariu Tack.: D. pulveraria Hulst; and Spodolepsis substrialariu var. danbyi Hulst. 

 Amongst the Microlepidoptera, Pyrausia funebris Strom, and Adela scpten.trionella Wals. were 

 the most noteworthy. The Coleoptera. Hymenoptera. and Diptera have not, as yet, been worked 

 over, but there are many in each order new to the Museum collections. 



Okanagan District. 



Mr. J. A. Monro collected in the neighbourhood of Okanagan Landing from April 20th until 

 September 2Sth. 



Trips were made to the Xahun Plateau, twenty miles south of Okanagan Landing, where 

 >. line good insects were taken at an altitude of 3,200 feet. In June five days were spent at 

 Shuswap Falls, about thirty miles east of Vernon ; the insect fauna here is somewhat different 

 from that in the vicinity of okanagan Landing, and a representative collection of some 200 

 insects were taken during the week. The total number of insects taken during the season was 

 t.llS, comprising: Lepidoptera. 730: Coleoptera. 1S4: Hymenoptera, 101; Diptera, 45; and 5S 

 of various other orders. Amongst the butterflies worthy of notice were Parnassius smintheus 

 var. magnus Wright; Papilio bairdii var. oregonia Edw.: Argynnis leto Behr. ; A. meadii Edw. ; 

 'En< i* chryxus rib. -Hew. : yoniiadcs lydgamas var. oro Scud.; Cupido icarioides var. pembina 

 Edw.: Erynnis comma var. manitoba Scud.: and Pholisora catullus Fab. 



i In the above list V. lydgamas var. oro Scud, is new to British Columbia: it has been 

 prol ably associated with V. lydgamas var. behrii in Mainland collections, the males of these two 

 forms 1 earing a close resemblance to each other. They are in the males differentiated by the 

 much paler blue of the upper side of oro: in the females they are more easily separated, oro 

 being of a uniform smoky brown with a few blue scales scattered at the base of the wing, while 

 behrii is blue with a broad black border. The ground colour of the under side of oro is brown, 

 that of behrii a light stone colour; the maculation is practically the same in both forms. Cupido 

 icarioides var. pembina is also a new name to the British Columbia list. This insect has been 

 masquerading under no less than four different names during the last fifteen years — viz., pheres, 

 fiiiln. phileros, ami lycea.) 



The weather conditions were much better during the summer months in the Okanagan 

 District than they were west of the Cascade Range: consequently the noctuid moths taken were 

 greater, both in number and variety, than those taken in the Lillooet District during the same 

 period. In the Catoeala? two species were taken new to British Columbia — a short series of 

 Catocala faustina var. acrulea Edw. and a single specimen of C. californica Hy. Edw. A 

 beautiful specimen of the rare ''. r< licta Walk, was also taken at sugar on August 25th. 



Other specimens worthy of record are the following: Caradriiia c-rtimia Walk.; Rhyncha- 

 grotis rufipeetm Morr.; /.'. variata Grt.; Abagrotis erratica Sm. ; Porosagrofis catenula Grt. ; 

 Mamestra disealte Cue.: Heliothis scutosus Fabr. ; Beliaca nexilis Morr.: and Syneda annexa 

 Hy. Edw. 



The Geometrida; were far below the average both in quantity and quality, although two 

 species new to the Museum collection were taken — Eudule mendica Walk, and Sabulodes lorata 

 Grt. Other desirable species taken were Cosymbia lumenaria Hub.; Acidalia subfuscata Taylor; 

 and Metanema inatomaria Guen. 



The Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera still await classification and determination. 

 Many of them, however, are new to the Museum collections, especially in the order Coleoptera. 



Victoria District. 

 The following list of noctuids taken in the vicinity of A'ietoria during the past season by 

 Mr. E. H. Blackmore, of this city, are of more than passing interest, as the first three are new 

 ■ i British Colombia, while the others are of rare occurrence: RhyncJiagrotis morrisonistigma 

 Crr. : Seotogramma trifolh var. albifusa Walk.; Bomolocha palparia Walk.; Cerma cuerva 

 Barnes: Hadena plutonia Grt.; Epidcmas melanographa ITamp. ; Polia radix Walk.: Pyrophila 

 tragopoginis Linn.: Adelphagrotis apposita Grt.: Euxoa costata Grt.; Polia restora Sm.; 

 Zosteropoda hirtipes Grt.; Streichia nwricina Grt.; Xylina dilatoculh Sm. ; Jfrlotroplia reni- 

 formis Grt.; and Ipimorpha nanmmo Barnes. 



