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358. C. florea Guen., =obscurior Smith, =- indicia Smith. — I 

 have specimens compared by myself with all these types. That 

 oi florea is a female in the British Museum, from Trenton Falls, 

 .N. Y. Obscurior was described from two females taken by Bruce 

 in Colorado, and a type is at Washington. My specimen com- 

 pared with this type is from Glenwood Springs, and a Calgary 

 .specimen compared with types florea and indicta is exactly like it. 

 I have three specimens from Kaslo. The 'florea ' of my original 

 list (No. 360) was wrongly identified, and the Calgary specimen 

 figured by Sir George Hampson as florea is, in my opinion, a 

 strongly-marked form of postera. The two are more nearly allied 

 than I at first thought, as my male type of indicta happens to be 

 an unusually pale gray, even specimen. I have two Calgary speci- 

 mens which puzzled me for a long time, and seemed almost to 

 connect them. Generally speaking, postera is better marked, and 

 has more obvious reddish brown shades on costal region of primaries. 

 In florea such shades are absent, or nearly so, as in the type, and 

 never conspicuous. What api)ears to me a more reliable character 

 exists in the dark cloud or shade preceding the crescent-shaped 

 mark formed by the t. p. line below vein 2. In postera this shade is 

 itself somewhat crescent-shaped, and about concentric with the t. p. 

 line crescent. In florea it is direct, oblique, and if produced would 

 meet the inner margin below the orbicular, and the costa near the 

 apex. The shade, however, is often very ill-defined, and not 

 always symmetrical on both wings. But I have studied this 

 feature very carefully, and conclude that it is characteristic of each 

 specits as a whole. The moth is a great rarity in this district, only 

 three specimens having been taken besides those previously men- 

 tioned, on Aug. 1st, 1909, and June 5th and 11th, 1910. I saw a 

 specimen bearing a New York label in the American Museum of 

 Natural History which I took to be this species, and so labelled it. 

 One in the Rutgers collection, labelled "New Windsor, N. J., May 

 27th, 1892, Emily L. Morton," appeared to be this, but had 

 ochreous-tinted secondaries, differing in this respect from any 

 previously seen. 



359. C. asteroides Guen? — I was quite wrong in listing this 

 species as postera. I have a manuscript name for it, and have 

 several times been on the point of describing it, but shall not do 



