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under the name of T. liparops ^ what we now know as T. strigosa, 

 Harris. I can hardly think that this is the case ; but it seems well to 

 preserve the name ; so, I suggest tliat it should be used for the variety 

 found in Manitoba, which constantly shows on the primaries above a 

 bright clearly-defined blotch, and this was the chief character from which 

 the name liparops was derived. On discussing the reference by Dr. 

 Scudder of Harris's strigosa to Boisduval and Leconte's plate with Mr. 

 W. H. Edwards some years ago the latter wrote as follows : "Scudder 

 says this is strigosa of Harris, but no one would know it from the figures. 

 The description is done from the figure and not from the insect ; therefore, 

 liparops represents no insect, but merely the said figure, and for that 

 reason I reject the name. The first time the insect was described was by 

 Harris, and his name prevails." In addition to the large and handsome 

 golden fulvous, almost quadrate patch which occupies nearly half the 

 area of the primaries, the secondaries are also frequently ornamented with 

 a fulvous cloud at the anal end, near the tails. The under side of the 

 western form is of a darker brown than in the type, with the white lines 

 much paler, these in some specimens being almost obliterated. 



Described from to specimens taken at several places in Manitoba : 

 Beulah (Dennis); Cartwright (Heath); Aweme (Criddle) ; Brandon 

 (Fletcher) ; Routhwaite (Marmont). 



The types described herewith are deposited in the United States 

 National Museum at Washington. 



Thecla Heathii, n. sp. (Heath's Hair-streak.) 

 Described from one female (not a male, as stated on the plate.) 

 Alar expanse, 26 mm. 



Upper side. — Blackish-brown (when taken), as in T. calanus. Costa 

 at base finely edged in front with yellow, as in calamis and acadica. 



Under side.— Fawn-brown, faintly washed with white from the base 

 almost up to a submarginal band of large pearly-gray blotches which 

 occur on all the wings. On the primaries these are four in number and 

 ovate. On the secondaries there are five square blotches and a long 

 whitish spur running up the inner margin. Exterior to these blotches is 

 an incomplete series of marginal lunules, as in several other allied species 

 of the genus ; consisting of, at the anal angle, between the internal and 

 submedian veins, a few scarlet scales shaded exteriorly with as many white 

 ones and bordered inside and outside with black ; between the submedian 



^Histoire generale et iconographique des Lepidopleres, p. 99 ; PI. 31, fig. i. 



