TH£ CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



ab. I" of Hampson, is referred as a var. of antennala Smith. 

 I have nothing identified as the latter. Separans Grt. (2288j 

 is best placed next to indocilis (2285), and enigra (2312) 

 placed in the list between commoda and iUustra should probabh- 

 come next. I am of opinion that the first three named will 

 ' ultimately prove to be forms of one species. The genitalia 

 do not differ. Ohscura Haw. {gemina Hbn.) of Europe has 

 an almost exactly similar range of variation. IUustra is a 

 black, almost immaculate var. of commoda. 



Probata B. & McD. is correctly referred as a synonym of 

 fumeola Hampson, and the re-description was explained by 

 the authors in their "Contributions," Hampson's figure repre- 

 senting a different species from his type. I recognized the 

 latter fact when I saw the British Museum series about ten 

 years ago. Of the species figured by Hampson I had then a 

 duplicate, but lacking other specimens, long held it under a 

 mss. name. All the specimens mentioned in the catalogue 

 except the type of fumeola are this species, and there is one 

 in the collection from Eraser River, B.C., (Mrs. Nicholl). A 

 few years ago I received it in some numbers from Miss 

 McGlashan, from Truckee, Calif. Sir George Hampson in- 

 tends to name it perfumosa. Luteocinerea, (2305), by my 

 comparison with the type is a form of char acta (2303). Jocasta, 

 standing between these names, seems to me a very close ally 

 of claudens, which is referred by Hampson and the authors 

 to Eremohia Steph. I agree with the authors in considering 

 mixta Grt. a good species. The resemblance of Grote's type 

 is so very close that I had formerly passed it, and one other 

 in the British Museum with it, as worn examples of impiilsa. 

 I have a specimen from Winnipeg from Mr. Wallis. 



Perigea Gn. No. 2323 should read xanthioides, not xanthoides. 



Oligia Hbn. Modiola Grt., with mactatoides B. & McD. as a 

 synonym, stands as a variety oi fractilinea, possibly as a result 

 of the writer's suggestion in litt. Misera Grt. is very likely 

 the same species. European secalis Linn, (oculea Linn.), of 

 which fractilinea is the North American counterpart, has a 



