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labelled " Matnestra insulsa, named by Francis Walker." The two 

 specimens are alike, but the species is, of course, not i?isulsa, 



I am indebted to Mr. Prout for a good series oi getnijia Hbn. and its 

 var. remissa Treit., from the British Isles. All these are of stouter build 

 and more reddish brown than any of my Calgary specimens, but my 

 co-type of enigra bears a closer resemblance to some of the typical gemina 

 of this series than any ifidocilis do to remissa. They all seem to agree in 

 antennal structure and tuftings, as they do with 7-unata. 



1 66. H. cinefada Grt. — There is a female type from Wash. Terr, in 

 the British Museum, which is figured by Hampson. Calgary specimens 

 are, however, duller, and have maculation less clearly written than some 

 of my specimens from California and Vancouver Is., but others from 

 California are like my local series. A female type from " So. Calif." is in 

 the Henry Edwards collection. This bears a closer resemblance to 

 SpaIdiugi'^mvCi\ (= tiuibrifacta Hamps.) than the British Museum type, 

 as to its identity with which I am not satisfied. 



I believe Hampson's figure under " ce?itralis'' to represent the same 

 species as his chief acta. It is certainly not centralis, of which I have a 

 female from the type locality, the Sierra Nevada, which I have compared 

 with the type and a series from the same locality in the Henry Edwards 

 collection. This species has long, narrow, acute primaries, resembling 

 Farastichtis, as used by Hampson in this respect, though the thoracic 

 tufiing of my specimen is rather that of Trachea. 



167. H. iinita Smith. — I have re-examined the female type in Prof 

 Smith's collection, and find the ground colour less blue-gray than memory 

 had supposed it. It is a trifle bluer only than Calgary cinefada. In 

 maculation it bears a most peculiar resemblance to the common eastern 

 form of Mamestra snbjimcta. Like that, it has a large and nearly round 

 orbicular, and is just as near that species in colour as it is to cinefacta. 

 But it differs from snbjiincta in having perfectly smooth eyes. Mr. Cockle 

 has a Kaslo specimen in his collection which I have seen. I know of no 

 others. The species figured by Sir George Hampson as unita, from 

 Corvallis, Oregon, is certainly not this species, but probably cinefacta. 



168. H. alberta Sm. — This, as Sir George Hampson catalogues it, is 

 a synonym of commoda Walker. The type of the latter is attributed 

 merely to " U. S. A. (Doubleday)," and may as likely as not have come 

 from western Canada. It appears to be a small, brown, poorly-marked 

 alberta. Another synonym of commoda^ and prior to alberta I believe 



