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the fine black longitudinal streak from the cell to the termen near 

 the apex. It differs similarly from Colorado specimens which 

 stood under figurata in the Smith collection, and from the Eureka, 

 Utah, specimen, figured as such by Barnes and McDunnough in 

 Contr. I, No. 4, pi. Ill, fig. 22. That figure appears to have a 

 black collar not possessed by either my specimens nor by the type, 

 though mine has a blackish head. The tegulae are disarranged as 

 a result of papering, and may be dark inferiorly. The fore tibiae 

 have a large claw on the inner side, a>nd a small one on the outer, 

 as Hampson says of type figurata. 



614. Platagrotis speciosa Hbn. var. arctica Zett.? — I have 

 two Alberta specimens which I refer doubtfully to this form. A 

 male which I took at the Chalet lights at Laggan, on July 14th, 

 1904, and a female which turned up at treacle on Pine Creek on 

 August 16th of the same year. I submitted both to Dr. Dyar 

 some years ago, and he called them speciosa. A similar male 

 taken by Mrs. Nicholl in Wilcox Pass during 1907 is in the British 

 Museum, and has been recorded as speciosa var. arctica, by Sir 

 George Hampson in Can. Ent. XL, p. 102, Mai"ch 1908. The 

 species has long been known in Northern Europe, and both names 

 were first applied to European forms. The typical form in 

 Europe is, as Hampson describes it, "gray white, strongly irror- 

 ated with black-brown." Against var. arctica in Staudinger's 

 catalogue is a note in Latin, which translates: "smaller, darker, 

 with hind wings nearly unicolorous." Sir George Hampson says 

 of var. arctica: "small and dark, with the markings indistinct — 

 Alpine and Arctic." Walker's type of mixta is a female from St. 

 Martin's Falls. My note describes it as "gray, black-sprinkled," 

 and, regarding more of the British Museum series continues: 

 "Others, Hudson's Bay and White Mountains, are much like it, 

 and rather smaller onl}^ than the usual run of European examples." 

 I have European specimens in my collection which I picked from 

 a series submitted to me to show the considerable variation, and 

 one from Labrador, probably collected by Moschler, sent me by 

 Bang Haas, as var. arctica, is more plainly maculate and not 

 nearly as dark as some of those. The Alberta specimens differ 

 in being of a much more bluish dark gray throughout, and in 

 bearing a peculiar resemblance, as regards the primaries, to 



