184 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



This form varies somewhat, but a fairly typical specimen is shown in 

 fig. 6. It may possibly be a distinct species, but I believe _it to be merely 

 a variety of Lecontei of the Militaris type, in which the tooth-like pro- 

 jections extending backwards from the costa have disappeared. 



Callimorpha Contigua, Walk. 



Hypcrcompa Contigua, Walk., Cat. Lep. B. M., III., page 651. 

 Callimoi-pha Revefsa, Stretch (in part), Ent. Amer., L, p. 104. 



(Figure 10.) 



"Albaj caput et prothorax lutea; palpi nigri, basi lutei ; antennas 

 nigrK ; thorax et abdomen fusco univittata : aire anticae marginibus 

 plerumque fascia postmedia vittaque subapicali fuscis ; posticae macula 

 submarginali fusca. 



" White. Head, prothorax and fore coxae luteous. Proboscis tawny. 

 Palpi black, luteous at the base. Antennae black. Thorax and abdomen 

 with a brown stripe. Fore wings brown, with a white discal stripe, which 

 widens from the base to a little beyond the middle, and with two large 

 sub-apical white spots. Hind wings with a small brown spot near the 

 hind border. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



" a. United States." 



This description, if possessing the merit of briefness, has certainly 

 very little else to commend it, and so Mr. Saunders in his synopsis 

 described the markings of the wings as follows : 



" Primaries white with blackish-brown stripes ; one along the costa to 

 near the tip ; one on the inner margin, joined at its extremity with an 

 oblique transverse band, extending to the costa ; from the centre of this 

 latter a stripe extends to the hind margin, somewhat enlarged at its termi- 

 nation, where it is centred with white. Hind margin partially edged with 

 brownish-black. 



" Secondaries white, immaculate." 



In order to make sure that the form so clearly described by Mr. 

 Saunders was the one that Walker intended by his description, I sent a 

 drawing of this form and of some others to Mr. Butler, who returned them 

 to me with sundry notes upon them, and confirming this determination as 

 correct. These drawings I sent to Mr. Stretch in 1885, upon the appear- 

 ance of his description of Reversa, and asked him if his species was not 

 the Contigua of Walker as illustrated by my drawing. To this letter I 

 have never received any answer, nor have I been able to get my drawings 



