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cotype of that from Vancouver, in the Rutgers College collection, 

 is also muJtilinea. 



(339. L. ant roclara Smith. 



1340. L. an!eroclara, va.r. calgariana Smith. — I am convinced 

 of the distinctness of anteroclara from phragmitidicola, though 

 confusion with that species is certainly easy. Calgariana is pretty 

 obviously a reddish variation of anteroclara, and bears the same 

 relation to it as roseola does to farcta. But whether anteroclara is 

 really distinct horn farcta is another matter. Farcta was described 

 from California, and I have a good series from Oakland. It is 

 paler and more even, with median vein less contrastingly whitish, 

 and has pure white secondaries. As a rule they may be separated 

 also by the presence o' a dark shading below the median vein in 

 anteroclara, but this does not always exist. I strongly suspect 

 anteroclara of being a dark race of farcta, but so closely do species 

 of Leucania sometimes resemble one another that I dare not 

 risk the reference at present. I have very rarely seen true anter clara 

 from west of the Rockies, but have compared and so named a single 

 Kaslo specimen for Mr. Cockle. 



Roseola was described from a single specimen from B. C, as 

 a variety of farcta, but was subsequently treated by its own and 

 all other authors as a species. It is common on Vancouver Island^ 

 and also at Kaslo, and occasional specimens, generally females, 

 have dusky shading on secondaries. But without the pink colora- 

 tion they are farcta exactly, and I see no reason for separating 

 them. I have Kaslo specimens, and have compared others, so 

 dark and streaky as to make separation from Calgary specimens 

 of calgariana almost impossible, and have so named one for Mr. 

 Cockle, but must for the present allow the names the benefit of 

 the doubt. 



341. Himella contrahens Walker, = qtiadristigmaSm[th,= injidelis 

 Dyar. — I have six specimens from the Red Deer River, one from 

 Lethbridge, Alta., and others from Regina, Sask., and Cartwright, 

 Man. These show exactly similar variation to a Kaslo series, 

 which are typical infidelis. A long series from Stockton and Provo, 

 Utah, are sirnilar, but run to a darker and more suffused form, one 

 of which I have compared with Grote's type of contrahens from 

 Nova Scotia, in' the British Museum, and believe it to be the same. 



