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perattenta is a male from Evans Centre, N. Y., and is a very strongly 

 marked specimen. 



194. PacJmobia littoralis Pack.? — The Calgary species so referred is 



certainly /<?^/'/;/(7^^ Grote, of which the male type from Hall Valley, Colo., 



is figured by Sir George Hampson. I have a male from the type locality, 



from Dr. Barnes. I have not seen the type of littoralis from Caribou 



Island, Labrador, and therefore cannot directly dispute Prof. Smith's 

 reference to that species. But if the description given in his Revision of 

 Agrotis (Bull. 2>^, U. S. N. M., p. 205), is the original one of Packard, I 

 do not feel sure of its identity. He describes what must be the t. a. line 

 as "black, irregularly quadridentate." In some of my specimens the line 

 might be called quadridentate, but in none that I have seen is it anything 

 approaching to black. Then again, beyond the t. p. line is "a parallel 

 line of dark streaks of uniform length," and beyond this again, the s. t. 

 line. The line of dark streaks beyond the t. p. is non-existant in any of 

 my specimens. Such variation is not impossible, but the above are two 

 characters new to me. 



196. Agrotis aurulenta Smith. — Another $ at light, July 23rd, 1905. 



201. Peridroma 77iargaritosa Haw. — It has long been a puzzle to me 

 to know why saucia is the only varietal name standing in our lists for this 

 very variable and somewhat ubiquitous North and South American, 

 European, and Asiatic species. I have a good series from Calgary, Van- 

 couver Island, and Stockton, Utah, and have seen numerous others. On 

 this continent the species has an infinitely wider range of variation than 

 the names saucia and margaritosa signify. Two names, i?iermis Harris, 

 and ortonii Pack., stand in our lists as synonyms of "var. saucia^^'' 

 whether quite correctly or not I cannot say. Sir George Hampson lists 

 nine other names as synonyms, though some of them I believe were 

 described from North American material. If saucia was, that may ac- 

 count for the retention of the name on our lists to the exclusion of others. 

 Hampson, after describing margaritosa as "brownish ochreous, irrorated 

 with brown, lists 'Ab. 1' without name as : Fore wing dark brown, costal 

 area, orbicular, subterminal area, and an apical patch gray, and 'Ab. 2,' 

 saucia^ .... much more uniform gray-brown." Tutt, in "British 

 Noctuae and Their Varieties," II, p. 5, 1892, lists eight varieties as Brit- 

 ish, including four of his own naming. He summarizes a description of 

 Hiibner's figure of jfZ//(r/(?, vvhich constitutes the type, as "blackish-gray, 



