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These color differences are as a rule rather strongly marked, 

 but they sometimes scarcely hold, and I possess North Ameri- 

 can specimens marked Stonington, Conn., which differ but very 

 slightly from some British specimens in my collection, includ- 

 ing some collected by myself in the midlands. 



Staudinger places fi-mtima (through a misprint spelled fic- 

 tirna) as a variety of basilinea, and refers basistriga Staud. and 

 cinefacta Graes. as synonyms of the variety, of which he gives 

 the distribution as North America, Siberia, Japan and Nor- 

 way. 



Ccrivana Smith, from Calgary, is a form in which the ground 

 color is paler still, the median space about concolorous in the 

 type specimens, but with a diffused reddish median line. Some 

 have the entire central area more or less reddish, except the 

 spots, as is usual in finitima, but the most obvious character is 

 the pale ground. The form occurs in Manitoba and at Kaslo, 

 British Columbia, and from Vancouver Island I have speci- 

 mens very much like it, as well as others nearer eastern fini- 

 tima. It seems best to list the forms as follows : 



Hadena basilinea Schiff. Ground color ochreous, or slightly reddish, 

 var. finitima Guen. Ground color grey, usually with central area 



red-brown. 



var. cerlvana Smith. Ground color paler grey, typically without 

 central area reddish. [The British variety cinerasccns Tutt 

 must be something near this.] 



I have studied more material since my notes on these forms 

 in Can. Ent. xliii. 230, 1911. Hence the foregoing. 



The New President of the Entomological Society of London. 



Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, whose article on Evcres coinyntas and 

 amyntula appeared in the NEWS for March and April last, was elected 

 President of the Entomological Society of London, at its meeting of 

 January 15, 1913. He has been an extensive writer on the Lepidoptera, 

 two of his larger papers being those on "New Noctuidae from British 

 New Guinea" (Novit. Zool. XIII, July, 1906) and "A Revision of the 

 African Species of the Lycaenesthes group of the Lycacnidae." 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., July 19, 1910). 



