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Caradrina insipida Strecker. 



This was described from two Wisconsin specimens. One of 

 them was said to be about the color of meralis, and the other 

 more reddish brown. It was stated to be nearest fragosa 

 Grote. E saw the types in March, 1910. One is a rubbed male, 

 the other, a merely fair specimen, a female. The species is 

 very doubtfully distinct from Orthosia inops Grote, of which 

 Hampson figures the type, also a bit worn, under the genus 

 Amathes. I have had a badly worn Calgary male in my col- 

 lection since 1893, which I identified as perhaps this only after 

 seeing Grote's type. I have also compared with mine, and taken 

 notes on, a male taken at High River, Alta., by Mr. Thomas 

 Baird, which I subsequently saw in Prof. Smith's collection 

 standing under inops, with a few from Kittery Point, Maine, 

 the type locality. Smith mentions in his notes in Trans. Am. 

 Ent. Soc. xxxiii, 351, 1907, that there are probably two species 

 confused under inops, but that the forms are too rare, and 

 available specimens too poor to make sure of. Closely associat- 

 ed with the mops series in his collection, I saw a few specimens 

 from Cohasset, Mass. ; East River, Conn. ; Winnipeg ; and Sa- 

 ble Island. It certainly looked as if there might be two spe- 

 cies, so I refrain from referring insipida definitely to inops at 

 present. 



Hadena finitima Guen. 



Dyar omits this name from his catalogue, substituting 

 basilinea Schiff. Smith takes exception to this in Can. Ent. 

 xxxv. 134, 1903, and claims that they are distinct species, figur- 

 ing the genitalia of each, and of cerivana. He appeared to 

 admit that the latter was a mere variety of finitima, and Dr. 

 Dyar follows him in Proc. U. S. N. M. xxvii, 812, 1904. Smith 

 in his 1903 Check List, however, places all three names as dis- 

 tinct North American species. There can be no justification 

 for this, as it has not yet been satisfactorily shown that basi- 

 linea and finitima are really distinct at all. Hampson, in 

 Trachea, keeps them separate, differentiating them in his tables 

 by color. 



"Fore wing grey, the medial area tinged with rufous; finitima. 

 Fore wing wholly tinged with rufous or red-brown ; basilinea?' 



