. The Canadian entomologist. Insects; Entomology. i¥. iitoittolojitst. Vol. XLIII. LONDON, DECEMBER, 1911, No. 12 FURTHER NOTES ON ALBERTA LEPIDOPTERA. BY F. H. WOLLEY DOD, MILLARVILLE, ALTA. (Continued from page 369.) 267. [Euxoa Jiesiiens Smith.—This appears to be merely a variation of tristicula Morr. (No. 275 of this list, q. v.)J 268. E. ochrogdster Guen.—In my former notes I tabulated the variations of this species under four headings : 1. Ground colour red. {Ochrogaster Guen.) I a. Ground colour red, with black basal streak, claviform and discoidal ceil. [Gnlaris Grt.) Hampson's figure
. The Canadian entomologist. Insects; Entomology. i¥. iitoittolojitst. Vol. XLIII. LONDON, DECEMBER, 1911, No. 12 FURTHER NOTES ON ALBERTA LEPIDOPTERA. BY F. H. WOLLEY DOD, MILLARVILLE, ALTA. (Continued from page 369.) 267. [Euxoa Jiesiiens Smith.—This appears to be merely a variation of tristicula Morr. (No. 275 of this list, q. v.)J 268. E. ochrogdster Guen.—In my former notes I tabulated the variations of this species under four headings : 1. Ground colour red. {Ochrogaster Guen.) I a. Ground colour red, with black basal streak, claviform and discoidal ceil. [Gnlaris Grt.) Hampson's figure appears to be of the type o( gu/aris, a male from "U. S. A ," though the figure is a little too dark. 2. Ground colour ochreous. This is the Agroiis i?isignata described by Walker in his Catalogue, Vol. X, p. 33c, 1856. Assuming that the type labels on the specimens in the British Museum are correct, this must not be confused with Agrotis insignata described by Walker on page 353 of the same volume, which specimen he described again a year later as illata, the latter double type being a specimen of tessellata. The two ifisignata have not unnaturally been much confused in literature, and Grote claimed that Walker himself had identified Hadena suffusca Morr. with his illata^ and that the description oi illata, which I have not seen, might apply thereto. He often called the validity of Walker's types in question, as well he might, knowing that author's slipshod methods. Howsoever, the existing "type" of Agrotis insignata Walk., X, 330, 1856, is a badly rubbed, pale, washed out, reddish-ochreous female from Nova Scotia of the species at present under discussion, and is erroneously referred to by Hampson as a prior name to pleuritica Grote, the type of which he figures under Walker's name. Prof. Smith makes the correction in Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XV,' 143, 1907. He states elsewhere that Morrison's ci?iereo7nacula is the same form. 2a. Ground colour ochreous
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