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L. Mead. I have numbers from Stockton but never saw a 

 British Columbia specimen other than the type. Smith com- 

 mitted the error of doing what he had done in many cases be- 

 fore. He recognized that he had two species before him that 

 had been passing as jlava\, and was over-hasty in deciding 

 which of these was really Grote's species, and described the 

 other as dupla. The result was that he redescribed Grote's 

 species, leaving the other (Crocea, Hamps., nee Hy. Edw.) un- 

 named. 



P. crocea Hy. Edw. 



There are two female types from Dallas, Oregon, in the 

 Henry Edwards' collection in the New York Museum. I have 

 a number from Stockton, and have compared one of my fe- 

 males with these types, finding it slightly larger and darker 

 only. Grote referred crocea as a pale variety of his flava, and 

 Smith went even further and made it a synonym until 1908, 

 when he characterized it as distinct after comparison with the 

 type, though entirely omitting Oregon from the habitat. I did 

 not find the species in the British Museum when I visited it in 

 March, 1909, but another species stood under the name, and is 

 described and figured as crocea in the catalogue. 



I did not then know that the species was not crocea, and left 

 a few specimens of an unknown species with Hampson. This 

 I discovered a year later was the crocea of Smith's collection, 

 which I found to be correct by Henry Edwards' types. The 

 specimen figured in Holland's Moth Book, pi. xx. f. 40, as 

 singula, is this species. The flava of Smith's collection was 

 the crocea of Hampson, and of course the one which Smith 

 ought to have described as dupla but didn't. I now name this 

 species on the basis of Hampson's description and figure. 



P. caeca nom. nov. 



= crocca Hamps. Cat. vi. p. 194. pi. ci. f. 9, 1906, nee Hy. Edw. 

 flava Smith, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. xvi, 88, 1908, nee Grt. 



I leave Sir George Hampson to choose the type. He figures 

 a Colorado specimen, and others from there and one from 

 Oregon are in the collection. I saw a Nevada male and a 



