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from Vancouver Island which seem to answer Sir George Hampson's 

 figure and description of /////// Grt., which he makes distinct on strength of 

 a s-ngle male from Lewis Co., New York, from the Hill collection, not the 

 type. The '' daudens'' recorded from Kaslo in the Record for 1906 was 

 on my authority. But it was compared and agreed with my Calgary 

 series, and must therefore be albertifia- I am short of outside material in 

 this group, and further notes will not be of much value at present. The 

 daudens of the Washington Museum appeared to me to be the hillii of 

 Hampson. 



175. Polia contacta Walk. — The form occurring here is bluer gray 

 than typical pulverulenta, which was described from Colorado, or than 

 true contada = diffusilis, the former type being from St. Martin's Falls, 

 Hudson's Bay Territory, and the latter from Lewis Co., N. Y. Sir George 

 Hampson had only a single Calgary male as puherulenta, of which the 

 figure is not good. In the tables he separates them by a darker termen in 

 ^^;/Az(r/rt, against concolorous in //^/z'f/7.^/^;//'^. Many of my local speci- 

 mens have dark suffusion beyond the s. t. line, reaching sometimes nearly 

 to the termen, indicating that this is probably a variable character. A 

 series of Kaslo, Calgary and New York specimens stood in the Washington 

 collection as ''contada = safisar." I am inclined to agree with Dr. 

 Barnes in considering the Calgary species identical with contada. 

 Whether pidveruletita is really distinct I am not in a position to say. The 

 only Colorado material I have examined are the types at Washington, and 

 one or two in the Strecker collection. The distinctness was by no means 

 clear to me, and the antennae are alike. The type of extinda Smith, which 

 seems another close ally, I overlooked. But Sir George Hampson is 

 quite wrong in referring sansar Strecker to contacta. On whose authority 

 he did this I know not, but the same error appears in the Washington 

 collection, and sansar is wrongly recorded from Kaslo in the Kootenai 

 List. The type is a female from Seattle, Washington, and may turn out to 

 be cedon, which comes from Washington also. Hampson's figure ot this 

 was not available when I was at Chicago for comparison. 



176. P. medialis Grt. — I believe all the specimens before referred to 

 by me under this heading to be of this species. I have a pretty good 

 series (twenty specimens in all) from Montreal, and from Miniota and 

 Cartwright, Man., from which latter locality I compared one with the 

 type in the British Museum, a female from Schenectady, N. Y. Some 

 specimens are black and gray only, others are rather strongly tinged 



