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matis, though much darker blue-gray than any of my long 

 series of that species from the Pacific Coast, and whilst the 

 maculation is practically identical, it is less strigate owing to 

 the markings being much less distinct. It has no sienna-brown 

 shades. As in infimatis the long narrow orbicular is some- 

 times confluent with the lower portion of the reniform, which 

 also occasionally runs back on or below the median vein. A 

 central shade is occasionally discernible in both species. I have 

 no note as to what stood as vernilis in Smith's collection, but 

 concerning that of the Washington Museum my note reads, 

 "Hampson's figure is much bluer gray than any here." The 

 figure represents the Banff form exactly, but is a little too 

 brown in tone, probably the fault of the process. 



Setagrotis dernarius Smith. 



This was described on the page following film, from a single 

 pair. The male was from California, without exact locality, 

 and was sent to Smith for identification by Sir George Hamp- 

 son. It is now in the British Museum as the male type. The 

 female, from Easton, Washington, is the other type, in the 

 Rutger's College collection. Smith mentions after the descrip- 

 tion that spines are obvious on the fore tibiae of the male, but 

 not of the female, and that Sir George Hampson would there- 

 fore refer the sp-ecies to Lycophotia rather than Anomogyna, 

 in which he places both infimatis and vernilis, which are with- 

 out fore tibial spines. I have examined that male type for 

 these spines, but failed to find them, and believe Smith to have 

 been mistaken. I consider both specimens to be rather unusu- 

 ally reddish-brown examples of infimatis. 



Setagrotis elata Smith : : Agrotis scandens Riley. 



Elata was described from two males and a female from Col- 

 orado. A pair of types are at Washington, and a male co-type 

 at Rutger's College. There is a pair of scandens at Washing- 

 ton lacking locality labels, marked "types," with the museum 

 red label, which are presumably Riley's types. Smith must 

 have completely forgotten what scandens looked like when he 

 described elata. I have compared the types with each other 

 and have a specimen compared with them, and never had 



