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lar is smaller, and ovate oblique instead of round or nearly so. 

 In versuta the t. p. line is composed of a series of inward cre- 

 nations. In loda they are inward dentations. This is not men- 

 tioned in either description. It occurs on Vancouver Island, 

 usually rather sparingly, though it was reported to be abundant 

 at Duncans during September and early October, 1911. I have 

 a few scattered records from elsewhere in B. C., and Mr. San- 

 son has taken it at Banff, Alta. It is omitted from Hampson's 

 Catalogue, but would probably find a place in Eurolype Hamps., 

 as it seems to agree in structure with contadina Smith, and has 

 the same general type of maculation. Contadina was known 

 to Hampson only by a single specimen loaned from the Wash- 

 ington collection. 

 Hadena erica Smith (Can. Ent. xxxvii, 258, July, 1905). 



I cannot see that this is anything more than a rather pale 

 form of characta Grote. The type of the latter is a female in 

 the British Museum from Nevada. Hampson correctly de- 

 scribes it as "grey-white, thickly irrorated with black, the base 

 and medial area tinged with ochreous brown." His figure of 

 it, the only example then in the collection, is too even, and the 

 ochreous shades are too pronounced. Erica was described 

 from a long series from Stockton, Utah, whence I have re- 

 ceived considerable numbers. It is stated at the end of the 

 description : "The species is allied to characta Grt., but differs 

 obviously when a series is at hand." When I visited Prof. 

 Smith's collection in January, 1910, his series under erica con- 

 tained six specimens, which included three species. A pan 

 labeled "Colo. Bruce." and a female "Gunnison Colo.," were 

 characta. A female from Claremont, Calif., was susqucsa 

 Smith, and from the type locality be it observed ! A male 

 from the Sierras, and a Colorado female were a third species 

 which I did not recognize. The male, by the way, bore a fold- 

 ed label "antimoda Smith type," a name never published. If 

 this was the series which did duty for characta when erica 

 was described, and on which the comparison was based, the 

 "differs obviously when a series is at hand" must be admitted. 

 The description of erica mentions an ochreous tint, but some 

 specimens lack it almost entirely. 



