232 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. I, containing the description, and find that he led off on a wrong 

 track himself by likening the species to laieritia and diibitaiis^ adding : 

 "But it is a smaller species, and otherwise quite different." It certainly is ! 



158. H. cogitata Smith. — Though its distinctness from diibitaiis 

 Walk, is very doubtful, cogitata is the name I have decided to use for this 

 form for the present. There is a male type, red, and a trifle variegated 

 with paler shades, at Washington, from the Sierra Nevada, California, 

 whence the form was described, Colorado being also mentioned under the 

 description. By Smith's Catalogue there should also be types in his own 

 collection and in the Neumce2[en collection at Brooklvn. I seem to have 

 overlooked these. 



This and dubita/is are kept distinct on our lists, and Sir George 

 Hampson treats them as two species, ascribing to duhitans in the table a 

 black-brown suffusion, mentioned as lacking in cogitata. He has types 

 diibitans Walk., insigjiata Walk. {Apamea, 1857), and sputator Grote, the 

 latter, from Evans' Centre, N. Y., being the spictatrix of Grote's and 

 subsequ-ent lists. The two former are marked merely "U. S. A.," but are 

 probably not western. The series under the name contains no western 

 specimens. Type dubitaiis is a small red-brown specimen, with scarcely 

 any trace of black-brown suffu'sion. Types iusignata and sputator are 

 darker and alike. His series under cogitata, with the exception of one, 

 ''Hudson's Bay (Barnston)," are all western, and include Calgary speci- 

 aiiens. This is claimed by Prof. Smith to be the Apainea insigfiata of 

 Walker, described in 1S60, of which the type is probably with the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario, though, judging from Smith's Catalogue, 

 it may be at Rutger's College. Walker, as above shown, had used 

 the,name,''also under Apa?/iea, in 1857, thus duplicating the name in the 

 genus, even if not in the species. The two series in the British Museum 

 seemed to me very doubtfully separable. Prof. Smith had Calgary speci- 

 Tnens in his collection under dtibitans. An occasional Calgary specimen 

 has slight blackish suffusion, and matches my palest eastern specimens 

 very well. But my blackest specimens come from Miniota, Man., and 

 some of these have the pale part of the reniform distinctly yellowish, 

 v^ometimes noticeable in paler eastern specimens. 1 know of nothing 

 tangible by which cogitata and dubitans can be separated as species, 

 though, as Dr. Barnes has pointed out to me, the Calgary form is not quite 

 typical cogitata, which is really slightly variegated. I have a long series 

 from Kaslo and Vancouver Island, but of all my specimens, the least 



