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colour ashen. obscured by dark shades, without any of the testaceous tint 

 of its eastern ally. The collar is gray, scarcely contrasting with the 

 thorax. The markings are as in bad'ntriga, and vary much in the extent 

 of the black shades. 



Described from 2 specimens, Kaslo, 15. C. 



U. S. National Museum, type No. 7337. 

 Homohedena Cocklei, n. sp. 



Brownish black, some of ihu scales hoary lipped. Fore wings dark, 

 basal space dark gray, median space black, a little lighter than the limit- 

 ing t.-a. and t.-p. lines, which are single, the t.-a. line with three slight 

 waves, the t.-p. bent out over reniform, Stigmata obsolete, orbicular 

 barely indicated, reniform a lighter shade. S.-t. space pale, the veins a 

 little darker. S.-t. line a diffuse black shade, grayish outwardly on its 

 lower half, this colour forming an ill-defined spot at anal angle ; fringes 

 dark. Hind wing solidly black, fringe white. Below black, a faint white 

 discal dot on fore wings and a distinct lunate one on hind wings. Fringes 

 as above. Expanse 27 mm. 



Described from one specimen, $ , Ainsworth, B. C. 

 Rhynchagrotis scopeops, n. sp. 



Allied to variata and alternata. Dark violaceous brown, shading 

 to dull clay colour at bases of wings and on thorax. Lines geminate, 

 crenulate, as in alternata, but distinct ; orbicular and reniform distinctly 

 bordered with whitish rings, filled with the ground colour. Terminal space 

 bluish ashen, contrasted ; margin narrowly and fringe dark. 



Described from 6 specimens, Kaslo, B. C. 



U. S. National Museum, type No. 7327. 

 Peridroma stibjugata, n, var. 



Differs from astrida, Morr., in being uniformly darker, the brown 

 colour more or less reduced, visible only for a short space inside the t.-p. 

 line, never wholly absent, though sometimes very nearly so. Discal spots 

 much grayer, almost white at the edges, darker filled. Terminal space 

 sparsely gray powdered. The discal spots are sometimes joined by a 

 spur from the reniform along the median vein. The form stands between 

 astricta, Morr., and nigra. Smith, but does not connect them. 



Described from 61 spec'mens, Kaslo, B. C. 



U. S. National Museum, type No. 7328. 

 Noctua umbrosa, n. var. 



Judging by the ^ genitalia, which agree with Smith's figure, this is 



