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imagos of that sex. Xot dreaming at the time that any doubt 

 could exist as to specific distinctness of clyiuoic and coufi/sa no 

 effort was made to pair these females with males of the white- 

 winged forms which emerged at abont the same time, and they 

 were at once killed and mounted. 



( )f the white-winged moths there emerged in all five male> 

 and twelve females, all with white secondaries, but showing a 

 remarkable range in pattern of primaries, viz. : 



3 $ , S 9 . These showed no very wide departure from the 

 usual conflict form, though several females varied toward typi- 

 cal Iccontci -\- in having the outer end of median white spot only 

 -lightly indented. Lyman (ibid. ) and vSmith ( Can. Ent., Dec., 

 iSSj, p. 2371 in effect found the distinction between confusa 

 and Iccontci on the shape of the median white spot. Typical 

 Iccontci having it entire and convex on the outer margin, and 

 typical confusci having it deeply cleft by a spur from the brown 

 band that arises just within the internal angle of the wing. 



i <? . ( Fig. i of Plate ) has apical, preapical and outer white 

 -pots partially fused. The secondaries have a slight yellow- 

 tinge and an unusually large brown spot near inner angle. 



1 $ . The fifth (Fig 11 of Plate) was almost an exact 

 reproduction of Fig. 2 of Lyman's plate, which he calls typi- 

 cal Iccontci. 



2 9 .These varied toward typical Iccontci and were much 

 like Fig. 12, except that outer margin of median white spot 

 was even less incised. 



i 9- In this example the broad and median white spot- 

 were broadly fused, and the oblique brown band from above 

 internal margin to apex was entirely obsolete, and the insect 

 looked much like Fig. 5 of L,y man's plate, which he gives a- 

 variety of Iccontci. The secondaries had slight yellowish tinge 

 and distinct yellowish stain where the brown spot is when 

 present. 



i 9. The fourth aberrant 9 was Fig. 2 of accompanying 

 plate, and differed from typical coufusa in having apical, pre- 

 apical and outer white spots broadly fused and a slight yellow 

 tinge on secondaries. 



' l\\ typical h'contei I mean Fi.^s. i, 2 and 3 of Lyman's plate accom- 

 panying his article in Can. Ent., for October, 1887. 



(To he continued.) 



