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specimens are larger, but the slight colour differences hold. As a whole, 

 my species has more gray, and less red than xyiifioides, in this respect 

 approaching indistincta, of which I am not sure that I have yet seen a 

 male. Sir George Hampson did not notice the antennal differences, as he 

 catalogues Calgary specimens with xylinoides^ which, as I understand it, 

 his figure of a New York specimen well represents. Guenee's species, 

 however, is claimed to have two synonyms, co?itraria Walker and ancocis- 

 conensis, Morr. Re-examination of the types of Guenee and Walker, both 

 from Trenton Falls, N. Y. (Doubleday), and both in the British Museum, 

 will be necessary before pronouncing them the same as Hampson's figure. 

 Of Morrison's species, I have not seen the description, nor do I know the 

 location or origion of the type, nor the meaning of the name he chose. I 

 should prefer to see his type, or at least to hear more about it, before 

 publishing my manuscript name for No. 177. Rectilifiea Esp., of Europe, 

 has antennal branches shorter than the form under discussion. 



178. H. brimiieicrista Smith. — In mentioning xylinoides in my 

 comparison with this, it must be understood that I referred to my No. i 77. 

 The differences apply about equally well, however^ to xylinoides, except 

 that the length of the pectinations in brufuieicrista male do not exceed 

 those oi xylinoides by as much as they do those of No. 177. Whilst they 

 are about double the length that they are in the latter, they are only about 

 one-quarter longer than in xylinoides. In other respects brunneicrista is 

 less closely related to xylinoides than is No. 177. A good series was 

 taken at treacle in 1909, between June 21st and 30th, and several at light 

 last year, so that I have been able to distribute quite a number amongst 

 other collections. On both occasions its congenor was more rare. I saw 

 a female from California in Prof Smith's collection. 



181. Honiohadena badistriga Grt. — Of the three specimens pre- 

 viously referred to under this heading, a pair, dated Aug. 3rd, 1897, and 

 Aug. 8th, 1 90 1, are the species described and figured by a woodcut as 

 badistriga by Sir George Hampson. I have seen neither Grote's descrip- 

 tion nor type, so have no means of verifying the name. The species has 

 a whitish ground, sparsely irrorated with gray, and conspicuously streaked 

 and suffused with cupreous brown and streaked with black, with cross 

 lines generally distinct in my specimens. The secondaries are whitish, 

 usually outwardly in the male, darker in the female. I have a male and 

 three females from ^Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin, which are like my Calgary 

 pair, but the male has whiter secondaries and the females are paler 



