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allied to it. If is rather smaller than usual; the lore wings tinted with an 

 obscure olive-gray, while the hind wings are uniformly ochreous-brown, not 

 mottled with whitish as usual; the costal spots on the fore wings are rather 

 large; it chiefly differs, however, in having a large brown spot in the course 

 of the median line next to the usual large brown spot, the two forming twin 

 spots; beneath, it docs not differ from other examples from Maine. The 

 specimens from Norway, Me., closely resemble the Labrador form in having 

 the inner spot much enlarged, though otherwise of the typical mode of 

 coloration. 



Two males and two females, from Vancouver Island, collected for the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology by Mr. Gf. R. Crotch, are rather larger than 

 the average of our eastern specimens, with longer wings, but they do not 

 materially differ; one specimen scarcely differs from an individual from New 

 York. They are, however, rather whiter than usual, with the submarginal 

 band nearly obsolete; all have the inner division of the median dark patch 

 on the fore wing broad, thus exactly resembling the New York example, 

 though not so well marked as in the Labrador specimens; beneath, the 

 common, broad, submarginal band is ochreous and nearly obsolete. 



It is interesting to notice how the species vanes away from its apparent 

 geographical center, the Northeastern States. In Labrador, it grows much 

 smaller, is stunted and darker; while at Vancouver Island, about one hundred 

 and fifty miles farther south in latitude, it grows rather larger than in the 

 Eastern States, with the wings decidedly more elongated and paler. This 

 species is very common in the New England States; it is closely allied to S. 

 signaria of Europe. Guenee's type of M. granitata I did not see in his 

 collection, but his description applies well to this common species. Having 

 received, through the kindness of Professor Zeller, a type-specimen of his 

 Macaria succosata, I find that it does not differ from the usual form of what 

 I regard as granitata. 



Semiothlsa multilineata Packard. Plate 10, fig. 14. 



Macaria multilineata Pack., Fifth Rep. Peab. Acad. Sci., 05, 1873. 



2 J and 1 9. — This species, in its narrow primaries and well-angled 

 secondaries, is allied to the more typical species of the genus, but differs in 

 the antennae being subpectinatcd, the branches being short slender tubercles 

 ending in a tuft of hairs. Body and wings whitish-ash; the head, palpi, and 



