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N. Y. Ent. See, XVI, 86, June, 1908). All the males I have seen have 

 been considerably redder in shade, and often closely resemble some dark 

 red foims of ochrogastcr. Holland figures a female of the species as 

 iitubatis, which it does not very closely resemble. The punctigera of the 

 Kootenai List was also wrongly named, the bulk of the material being 

 the species since described by Smith as cocklei (Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 

 XVIII, 96, Jan., 1908), which I make, by direct comparison with both 

 types, = /(fz/z/i-^tz Grt., though at my suggestion Prof. Smith has since 

 made a comparison himself, and is unable to support me in the reference. 

 The type o{ perfusca is a female from Arizona in the Brooklyn Museum. 

 It has also seemed to me that \\\t perfiisca of most of the other collections 

 I have seen, including the British Museum, have been wrongly named. 



245a. E. megastigf/ia Smith, = acor?ns Smith. The female type of 

 megastigma in the Washington Museum is a dark ochreous-gray specimen, 

 with large, pale, oblique orbicular. The space between the discoidal spots 

 is not nearly as dark as indicated in Sir George Hampson's figure, which 

 is copied from a figure of this type, and not, as I erroneously stated 

 before, from the type direct. A female co-type in Prof. Smith's collection 

 is the same species. 



246. E. sca?idens Riley. — A male from the Red Deer River, north- 

 east of Gleichen, on July 7th, 1905, is the only other Alberta specimen I 

 have seen besides the one previously recorded. It appears to be more 

 common in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. There are a male and female 

 type in the Washington Museum. Setagrotis data Smith appears to me 

 the same species. It was described from two males and a female from 

 Colorado, and a pair of types are at Washington, and a male co-type with 

 Prof. Smith. I made very careful comparisons, and have a specimen 

 which I compared with the types of both names, and my notes say that I 

 considered them '' unquestionably the same." Prof. Smith, at my sugges- 

 tion, has compared them since, and is unable to agree with me in the 

 reference. Sir George Hampson places both in the genus Lycophotia 

 HiJbner, of which he makes Feridrofna Hi.ibner and Setagrotis Smith 

 synonyms. E/ata, however, was known to him only by a figure. 



247. E. vulpi?ia Smith. — A male at light on Sept. 23rd, 1907, is only 



the fourth specimen I have seen to be sure of. I have not yet identified 

 it with any other named species. It is an ally of incallida^ and is one of 

 a group in which species are extremely hard to distinguish, and enormously 

 variable. 



(To be continued.) 



