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have no exact intergrades, but I am poorly off tor outside material. 

 Kaslo specimens are like my local series. Those from Vancouver Island 

 (I have two specimens only) are much browner and more highly coloured, 

 and much like some I have from New York. Whether European basilinea 

 is distinct from finitiuia or not is perhaps unimportant. Sir George 

 Hampson keeps them distinct, seeming to find, as my own series shows, 

 that they differ slightly, though constantly, in intensity of colour and 

 markings, ^;////>;/tz being the lighter and better marked. I wish to differ 

 with no one who calls them the same species, though as they do not get 

 a chance to habitually interbreed, how is the point to be decided ? Prof. 

 Smith's figures of the genitalia of all these in Can. Ent., XXXV, plate 4, 

 ^a^- 5' 6' 7) ^^^y? ^9^3) ^''c not convincing. 



157. H. lateritia Hiifn. — The type o( obliviosa Walker, is a female 

 in the British Museum, and comes from "Rocky Mountains " from Lord 

 Derby. It may have been taken in Alberta territory. It was referred to 

 lateritia by Prof. Smith in his catalogue, and Sir George Hampson follows 

 him. I looked at the specimen for a long time, and had my doubts. It 

 looks alpine, has a rough fluffy appearance, is very evenly gray powdered, 

 seems narrower winged, and has better defined though very indistinct 

 claviform than lateritia usually has. A Vancouver Island specimen was 

 placed next it in the series to show the connection, but is rubbed, and 

 does not to my mind prove its identity. However, I did not recognize 

 it as any other species, and it may prove to be rightly placed. 



Sir George Hampson makes satifia Strecker a synonym of lateritia^ 

 and Prof Smith upholds him in Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XV^HI, 139, 

 Sept., 19 10, mentioning that he has two examples like satina from Grand 

 Lake, Nfld. I saw the type oi satifia in March, 19 10. It is a worn male, 

 from Anticosti, taken, the description (1893) says, by W. Couper in 187J. 

 I referred it at once and without hesitation to comf>wda\\'s.\ktr { — aibe7-ta 

 Smith). I referred on the spot to Harnpson's Catalogue, and was greatly 

 surprised to find his reference to lateritia, an idea I refuse to entertain for 

 one moment. My notes say : "Even leather brown, t. a. and t. p. line 

 distinct, blackish. Eyes not lashed. Part of right antenna only, ciliate.*' 

 I admit that I could not match it exactly in my series of alberta, all being 

 darker, but feel confident that it will ultimately prove to be this species, 

 or, just possibly, a very close ally. I would suggest that the Newfound- 

 land specimens mentioned by Prof Smith are not satina. Had thati 

 species been in his collection associated w'lih. lateritia, I must have noticed 

 it. I have only within the last few weeks received Strecker's Supplement 



