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was a Panthea allied to gigantea. I recently examined the type 

 in the British Museum, and that is evidently correct. It comes 

 from Shasta Soda Springs, California (Hamps. Cat., XIII, 370, 

 pi. CCXXXIV, fig. 10)_. Mr. Sanson has taken two specimens of 

 a Panthea at Banff, a female on July 16th, 1906, on Sulphur Moun- 

 tain, and a male on June 1st, 1910. I have examined both of these,' 

 the former in Smith's collection, and recorded them, apparently 

 wrongly, as rather dark portlandia in the "Record" for 1910. I 

 have in my collection a similar female which I took on a station 

 light at Field, B. C, on July 16th, 1907, and this I have compared 

 with Grote's type of virginirii, and consider it the same, though 

 it has heavier cross lines. I did not feel confident as to the distinct- 

 ness of the gigantea of the British Museum. I have not seen 

 Grote's description of portlandia, but have a Wellington, V. I., 

 specimen agreeing with Holland's figure, and with that in Smith 

 and Dyar's "Monograph of Acronycta," where the habitat given 

 is the northern Pacific coast, from Oregon to Vancouver Island. 



593. Acronycta dactylina Grt. — I have four males taken here* 

 from July 5th to 17th, in 1901, '04, and '09. Two of these were 

 included in my original notes under canadensis. The female is 

 from High River, from Mr. Baird. They are a trifle bluer grey 

 than eastern specimens, one of which, from Lowell, Mass., I have 

 compared with Grote's type from New York, but they appear to 

 be the same species. Hesperida Smith was described from two 

 males and six females from California; Seattle and Tacoma, Wash- 

 ington; Nanaimo and Vancouver. I have seen three specimens 

 labelled "type," one of which is labelled "Victoria, B. C," which 

 is presumably intended by "Vancouver" in the description. I 

 consider it a dark variation of dactylina, all wings, including 

 even the secondaries in the male, being more suffused with brown 

 than those from east of the Rockies. The dark secondaries, as I 

 have elsewhere pointed out, are a feature common to many B. C. 

 forms. Smith adds that "the dagger mark opposite the anal angle 

 is entirely absent." It is present in two out of my six B. C. speci- 

 mens, and, moreover, it is sometimes absent from eastern dactylina. 

 Hampson figures as hesperida a female from Aweme, Man., but it 

 is not typical. I have specimens from Miniota, Cartwright, and 

 Winnipeg, and they are like the local form. 



