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my own European collection, so I am unable to make further 

 comparisons at present. Sir George Hampson unites them all 

 as one species, under umbra, citing: 



Ab. 1. exprimens. — Fore wing with the postmedial and 

 terminal areas suffused with brown. — Canada and U.S.A. 

 Ab. 2. cilisca. — Hind wing paler yellow, the postmedial 

 band pale crimson. — U.S.A. and Brazil. 



373. Cosmia decolor Walk, (not discolor). — The type is a 

 rather dark, smoky-suffused orange male from Orillia, Ontario, 

 and is probably the one figured by Hampson, but the black streak 

 shown near the inner margin is presumably an artist's error. Dis- 

 color of our lists was merely a mis-spelling, and the name un- 

 fortunately should stand as a synonym. 



374. C. infiimata Grt. =ptmctirena Smith. — Grote's type, a 

 female from Malawqua Co. (PChautauqua), New York, is a 

 very dark fuscous-brown specimen. Of punctirena I have seen 

 two types, male and female, from Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, 

 in the Washington Museum. There is no type there from Cart- 

 wright as I previously stated. The types are a trifle reddish, 

 even, and have the t.a. line angled rather than curved, but are 

 certainly the same as inftcmata, and my tentative synonymy of 

 this and decolor has proved correct. Sir George Hampson cor- 

 rectly keeps European paleacea distinct, but fails to recognize two 

 North American species. I do not blame him. I have no modi- 

 fication to make of my former notes, and nothing to add, but I 

 must admit that I should probably never have suspected, or, at 

 any rate, been able to separate the two species if I had not had the 

 opportunity of studying them in nature. As it is, I cannot always 

 place specimens with certainty. 



Hampson places them in the genus Enargia Hubn., and, as is 

 his rule, changes the gender of the specific name to concord with 

 that of the genus, thus making the name decolora Walk. He makes 

 infiimata ah .1 . "Head, thorax and fore wing thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous." "Ab. 2. Fore wing yellowish white, with slight dark 

 irroration." This is a male from Lower Klamath River, California, 

 and is a very pale whitish decolor. I have seen other similar speci- 

 mens, and Dr. Barnes has such a female from Victoria, B. C, 

 bearing a manuscript name. "Ab. 3. Fore wing pale yellow, 



