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Specimens signifies a more strigate and irrorate form of the same. 

 What he calls instabilis Fitch is, of course, a citation of Fitch of 

 European mstabilis Sch\^ = incerta Hiibn., which however is not 

 very obviously distinct. Malora Smith, described from three males 

 and two females from Calgary, is applied to a dull smoky-grey form 

 of the same species. The variation seems to be very wide wherever 

 the species occurs, though it may be said that, in general. Pacific 

 coast specimens are richer in colour than those from the east, and 

 Alberta specimens intermediate. I can, however, match. Calgary 

 and Vancouver specimens almost exactly, and also some from Cal- 

 gary, Chicago and Montreal. Quinqiiejascia'a, as the name implies, 

 stands for a form with five distinct transverse lines. Brucei Smith 

 from Denver, and Garfield Co., Colorado, and proba Smith from 

 Alameda Co., Calif., I cannot believe to be distinct from liibisci, 

 hut nubilata Smith may prove distinct. I iiave a note that I found 

 specimens from that region in Smith's collection suggesting a new 

 species, but failed to make a satisfactory separation. Hampson 

 makes insciens Walker, and confluens Morr. synonyms of hibisci, 

 but calls hibisci "ab.I." with the spots joined. This aberration, 

 according to Smith, is also Morrison's conjiuens. Walker's type 

 of insciens is a female labelled " U. S. A., (Doubleday)" and has 

 the subterminal line, and annuli to the spots, particularK- the 

 orbicular, unusually pale and wide. I have a note to the effect 

 that when I was at the British Museum last March, a specimen 

 labelled confluens Morr., the type of insciens Walker, and three 

 pale, even, Calgary specimens stood separated in the collection. 

 I fail to see that any such separation is warranted. I also found 

 latirena and pacifica in the same series imder pacifica, though I 

 feel satisfied that the latter is distinct. 



345. Cleoceris populi Strk. — The type of popiili is from Love- 

 land, Colo., and is a pale, slightly marked thing, and not unlike 

 the form figured in Holland. I have seen Colorado and W>"oming 

 specimens in other collections, but all were paler and less maculate 

 than my Calgary series. 



347. Xylina amanda Smith. — There are male and female 

 types in the Washington collection, the former from Pullman, 

 Washington, and the latter from Calgary. The Pullman specimen is 

 much paler in colour than the other, and my notes say that the\- may 



