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inontana)^ though I did not compare it with Hampson's figure of 

 semilunata type. 



172. H. allecto Smith. — 'This was described from six specimens from 

 Calgary, Alta.; Brandon, Man.; and Volga, S. D., which were stated to be 

 hke 7?iactata, but black and gray instead of brown. In my original notes 

 I stated that I had brown Alberta and Manitoba specimens, and in a 

 bracketed note appearing a few pages further on, which I added in the 

 proofs and intended as a footnote, I expressed doubt as to the vah'dity of 

 allecto as a species. I still maintain this view, and have several western 

 prairie specimens, which grade through to the grayest forms, which could 

 not possibly be distinguished from my Pennsylvania series without the aid 

 of the labels. I have not taken the species here for some years, but some 

 of my oldest specimens are my grayest. I have strong suspicions, however, 

 that the gray specimens are apt to fade, especially as my notes tell me that 

 the types which I examined at Washington in February, 19 10, are distinctly 

 brown. I should have called the male type from Brandon typical 

 mad at a, and the female type is scarcely grayer. 



173. H. egens Walk, appears to be a prior name to transfrons Neum., 

 as Sir George Hampson makes it. Walker's type is a badly rubbed 

 specimen from "Hudson's Bay (Barnston)" according to the catalogue. 

 This may mean close to the borders of Ontario, as many similar records 

 do. Bridghami G. & R. is a close ally probably occurring in that region, 

 of which I have no specimens in my collection. The type of tra?isfrons is 

 presumably in the Neumoegen collection at Brooklyn, as stated in Smith's 

 Catalogue, but I have no note of having seen it there. It is attributed to 

 *' B. C," but that may mean Alberta. I never saw an authentic B. C. 

 specimen. 



174. H. albertina Hamps. (Cat. VII, 413, 1908) — Sir George Hamp- 

 son has thus named this species from Calgary and Aweme, Man. 

 specimens, making a Calgary male the type, and placing it, together with 

 clatidens and hillii^ in the genus Eremobia Steph, He characterizes 

 albertina as having ground colour bluish white and orbicular very 

 oblique, as against ground colour gray and orbicular less oblique in 

 claudens, of which he figures the type, a male from St. John's, Nfld. My 

 own notes add that in type claudens the discoidal spots lack the pale 

 annuli j)resent inside the blackish defining lines in albertma. Type 

 leucoscelis, which Hampson makes a synonym of claudens, is a female from 

 Racine, Wis , and is like claudens but darker. I have a very pale series 



