230 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Neither is a Nova Scotia female under the same name in the American 

 Museum of Natural History at New York. The type of exornata is 

 presumably in the Moschler collection, wherever that may be. Labrador 

 is given as the first locality in all the catalogues except Staudinger's, who 

 gives "Mong. Labr." I have not taken contradida here for some years. 



155. Under this heading, in the second line, for 'f the species " read 

 *' the specimen," and I still hold to my suggestion that it is probably a 

 variety oi passer, under which I have now referred to it. I have not 

 taken another like it. It is probably quite distinct from inorna, of which 

 hulstii Grt. appears to be a synonym. The types of both these names 

 come from Colorado. That of morna, from Rio Blanco^ is a male, in the 

 Strecker collection, unset when I saw it, though described in 1878 or 9. 

 It is a pinkish red species, and I referred it to Luperiiia in my notes, 

 which add, " abdominal tuft extremely slight.^' Prof. Smith has the 

 species correctly named in his collection I think, and in Jour. N. Y. E. S., 

 XVIII, p. 138', Sept., 1910. refers it to Sidemia Staud., as used by Hamp- 

 son, and likens it to subornata Staud., from Mongolia, as figured on pi. 

 CXVIII, f. 31,, of Hampson's work. From memory, he is about right, 

 and as almost the sole differences between Lvperina and Sidemia as 

 -characterized by Hampson are that the latter has more rounded apices 

 and an abdominal crest at base, which the other lacks, I am not ashamed 

 of my Mss. generic reference. But passer, which Sir George Hampson 

 •places under Liiperina, has an abdominal crest at base. The only two 

 North American species which he treats under Sidemia are longida Grote 

 and devastatrix Brace. Longida I have not examined structurally, but 

 moriia is certainly more closely allied to passer than to devastatrix, 

 I have seen the type of htdstii, a female, in the Graef collection at 

 Brooklyn. In the Strecker collection, beside the type of morfia, is a 

 Colorado male marked '■Wiu/stii Grote," a little paler and more even only 

 than morna. Strecker makes the reference in Suppl. 3, p. 32. The 

 " niorjia " of Hampson's Catalogue is an ally, possibly a race of conradi 

 Grote, as already pointed out by Prof. Smith. That of the Washington 

 collection is the same species, in one drawer at least. But by some over- 

 sight, several drawers further on is another very distinct species also 

 standing as morna, and certainly nearer to it than the other. It is the 

 species I have already referred to wnAei passer as probably undescribed. 



156. H. cerivana Smith. — This differs from t2>.'s>Xexn firiitima, of which 

 it is probably only a racial form, chiefly in being paler and grayer. I 



