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Barnes and McDunnough in their "Contributions," Vol. I. No. 

 4, pi. i, f. 16, and pi. v. f. I. The species is a very variable 

 one. The transverse lines, basal streak, black in the cell, the 

 black or reddish-brown line on tegulae, and apparently also 

 the transverse central shade, are variably present or absent. 

 Smith's note in his Agrotid monograph with regard to congrua 

 and planifrons, to the effect that, "there are so many differential 

 characters that there is not the slightest danger of confusing 

 them," based as it was on single specimens in a family even 

 then well known to be very variable, was, to say the least of it, 

 rather premature. 



Invenusta Grote, type a female in the Brooklyn Museum, 

 from Las Vegas, New Mexico (Snow), my notes say is a very 

 even planifrons and has several times already been correctly 

 referred to vocalis. Hampson places vocalis in Lycophotia 

 Hubn. treating Peridroma Hiibn. and Setagrotis Smith as 

 synonyms. 



Setagrotis filiis Smith (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxiii, 127, April, 

 1907) = vernilis Grote. 



Filiis was described from a single male from Pullman, 

 Washington, and said to be "allied to vernilis in type of macu- 

 lation." I saw the type in Smith's collection. Associated 

 with it, and correctly I thought, was a female from Laggan. 

 I noted it as probably an exceptionally blue-gray form of 

 infimatis. Vernilis was at that time unknown to me, and I 

 had another species under the name in my collection. In the 

 fall of the same year I received the form from Mr. N. B. 

 Sanson, of Banff, Alta. In Rep. Ent. Soc. Out., 1910, I re- 

 corded Mr. Sanson's capture as filiis, and suggested that it 

 might be a form of infimatis. The species I recorded from 

 Banff as vernilis at the same time was conynia or something 

 more nearly allied to that than to infimatis. The following 

 year Mr. Sanson took a nice series, and I noted the extremely 

 close resemblance of the form to Hampson's figure of vcrnilis. 

 I took a specimen with me to the British Museum, and found 

 it almost exactly like Grote's type from Colorado, which is the 

 specimen figured by Hampson. It is a very close ally of infi- 



