THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 13; 



identical with the European basilhiea. Recently Dr. Dyar has referred 

 cerivana as a variety to the European basilinea. A good series, repre- 

 senting all three of the species, being now at hand, I am confirmed in my 

 previous opinions, and present herewith figures of the $ genitalia of each. 

 They are drawn to the same scale, with camera lucida and from mounts 

 not under pressure. The differences are not great, but they are abso- 

 lute, and show our own forms to be more nearly related than either of 

 them is to the European form. 



Rancora, Sm. 



Since this genus was described in 1894 a number of examples have 

 come to hand that confirm the original generic separation, though in some 

 forms the collar may be as hoodlike as in Cucullia and the primaries 

 nearly as lanceolate. A peculiar ornamental feature, which was not con- 

 sidered of importance v/hen only one species was at hand, turns out to be 

 quite characteristic and permanent : it is a rigid black line or bar which 

 extends through the cell on the under side of the secondaries, from the 

 discal spot to the base, and this does not seem to occur in any species of 

 Cucullia. 



Some of the species described as belonging to Cucullia are better 

 referable here, and two new species are at hand. 



Cucullia serraticornis, Lintner, belongs to this genus without reason- 

 able doubt, and it is practically certain that matricaria, Behr., is the same 

 thing. The type of matricaria is a (J in the Strecker collection and is a 

 Rancora without any doubt. It is a fairly well-marked species and has 

 white secondaries. 



Cucullia solidaginis, Behr., also belongs to Rancora, and one of the 

 specimens now before me is out of the type lot from the Strecker collec- 

 tion. One S and two 9 are from Corvallis, Oregon, taken March and 

 April, at light. This is a dull smoky grayYorm, with narrow pointed wings 

 and a very obvious hood. The maculation is all very obscure and smoky, 

 not a clear black line occurring anywhere on the wing. The secondaries 

 in the female are very deep smoky brown, and in the male they are smoky 

 outwardly, the base dirty white and somewhat translucent. 



Strigata, Sm., is the type of the genus, and is more robust than 

 either of the preceding. The thorax is proportionately much heavier, the 

 collar does not form a hood in even the best specimens, and the primaries 

 are decidedly shorter and broader. The colour is a clear, dark ashen or 



