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evenly coloured comes from Trenton, Ont. Whilst at the Brooklyn 

 Museum I saw a series from Big Indian Valley, Catskill Mountains, from 

 Mr. Pearsall, which were of the light red form, prevalent in Western 

 Canada, and a series of larger and blackish specimens from the same 

 locality, strongly suggesting two species, but whether cogitata and dubitans 

 I cannot say. 



1 60. H. devastatrix Brace. — I believe it has not been recorded 

 before, that this species sometimes has spines on hind tibise. I made the 

 discovery accidentally about a year ago, finding that about fifteen per cent, 

 of a number of my specimens which I examined had spines, varying from 

 one to three, between and slightly exterior to the two pairs of hind tibial 

 spurs. I wrote and asked Dr. Barnes to examine his specimens, and Dr. 

 McDunnough replied that out of fifty or sixty examined, ten had from one 

 to three spines. Prof. Smith reported that he found a single spine in the 

 majority of his, but suggested that the character was probably really con- 

 stant, and that the spine had been broken off from the rest. I doubt that 

 explanation. Incidentally I have discovered the same variable character 

 in several species allied to Fiusia, concerning which I shall write later. 



163. H. versiita Smith. — This species is one ot the most regularly 

 occurring Noctuids here. Ducta Grote, of which the type is in the British 

 Museum, from Orono, Maine, seems to be very rare in the east, but will 

 probably prove to be the same species, I certainly have seen verstcta 

 from Hymers, Ontario, and compared it with my Calgary series. Sir 

 George Hampson's figure of ducta is of the type, and is pretty good, 

 though there should really be a W in the subterminal line, a characteristic 

 feature of versuia. M'uiiota Smith (An. N. Y. Acad. Sci. XVIII, 114, 

 Jan., 1908), is certainly versuta. The description is made from three 

 males and six females from ^Miniota and Cartwright, Man. My notes 

 taken whilst at Rutger's College state that a female co-type of ini?iiota is 

 from Calgary. As the locality is not mentioned under the description it 

 may be my mistake, and really be a co-type of versuta, which was 

 described from two Calgary females. The male and female types of 

 miniota are from the place of that name, and are the bronze-tinted form 

 of versuta, referred to in my original notes. Moilena Strecker, described 

 in 1898, I also refer to versuta. The type is a worn female from Love- 

 land, Colorado. I have specimens from Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, 

 and from Provo, Utah, and there are specimens, or a specimen, in Prof. 

 Smith's collection from Glenwood Springs, Colo. In the Washington 



