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to be sat'uia Strecker, from Anticosti, for notes on which, vide supra, 

 under lateritia. I have recently seen several specimens which I compared 

 witli my series and named comt?ioda, from Hymers, Ont. Here the 

 species varies from a dull sooty dark brown, almost black, to a reddish 

 leathery brown, somewhat approaching lateritia in shade, though none of 

 mine are as red as that. Most have very indistinct maculation, but a itvf 

 have it quite clear, with cross lines distinct, blackish, and sometimes edged 

 with gray. There is occasionally a black basal streak, reaching in one 

 specimen to the t. a. line, but this is more often entirely lacking. The 

 orbicular is seldom regular in shape, and varies from comparatively round 

 to elongate oblique, in some of the latter shape almost touching the 

 reniform. 



169. H. [^^r;/^^// Smith ?] — I am in doubt as to this species being 

 Barnesii. It is certainly far from typical. I have three specimens in my 

 collection from Banff, Alta., from Mr. Sanson, and have examined a 

 number of others from that locality. It appears to me to be the same 

 species as the specimen figured by Sir George Hampson from Colorado as 

 auranticolor, but which was not the specimen labelled " type," though 

 from the same locality, and which my notes tell me that I did not feel sure 

 was the same species, wherein, however, I may have erred. It is a much 

 more purplish-brown species than Barjiesii, of which I have compared the 

 types, and have now specimens from the type localities, Yellowstone Park, 

 Wyo., and Glenwood Springs, Colo. This is placed by Hampson in 

 Trachea, and next to sora Smith, which is probably a dark variation of it, 

 as suggested by Dr. Dyar in the Kaslo List. One of the principal differ- 

 ences between Parastichiis and Trachea, as used by Hampson, is that 

 the former has long and narrow primaries and the latter broad. Both this 

 and the other slight differences of cresting and tufts mentioned seem to 

 me sometimes variable in one species, e.g., lignicolor. In fact, I do not 

 think the genera are very distinctly separated, or separable, though the 

 characters may hold well enough for some of the species. My No. 169 

 varies considerably in wing form, and almost, though, so far as I have yet 

 seen, not quite, connects with my co-type of sora in this character as well 

 as in colour, they being not separable by maculation. Through sora the 

 present species may show a specific relationship to Barnesii, but I must 

 leave the matter as it stands at present. I have a specimen of this species 

 from Peachland, B. C, and have one that is either this or sora (or both?) 

 from Kaslo. _^Mr. Sanson's specimens were dated from Jaly 3bth to Aug. 

 14th. (To be continued.) 



