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interspace is frequently somewhat paler than the rest of the wing, 

 and a smoky streak is usual above vein 5. Alberta and California 

 specimens are the darkest in my series, espacially as to secondaries, 

 but the variation overlaps, and my most European-like examples 

 are from Vancouver Island. The secondaries vary similarly on 

 both continents, and Mr. G. Chagnon, of Montreal, has exactly 

 duplicated genitalia from both sides of the Atlantic. A pink 

 variation is locally common in England, and it is probable that 

 ruhripallens Smith will prove to be the corresponding variety 

 with us, but I am not yet sufficiently familiar with this to be able 

 to form a definite opinion. 



334, 335. L. albilinea Hubn= diffusa Walker. — I have taken 

 specimens here which connect the two series I had previously 

 separated, and agree with Hampson in uniting the names. Walker's 

 type is a female from Nova Scotia. Hampson also includes obscurior, 

 tetera and neptis as synonyms, with which I agree, and would add 

 limitaia Smith. 



336. L. dia Grt. = heterodoxa Smith. 



336a. L. dia Grt. var. megadia Smith. — I have examined the 

 type of dia Grt. in the British Museum, which, according to the 

 catalogue comes from California, and some Calgary specimens 

 are exactly like it. The male and female type heterodoxa are 

 from the Sierra Nevada. Megadia will stand for that variation 

 with a black basal streak, merely an evanescent character. A 

 Calgary cotype of megadia is in the British Museum, and is correctly 

 referred as a synonym of dia by Hampson. His reference of hetero- 

 doxa to insuefa is ba?ed on a Minnesota specimen ient him by 

 Smith. Whether this is the Minnesota example mentioned in 

 Smith's description, of course I cannot be sure. Sir George Hamp- 

 son's reference of the specimen to insueta appears to me correct, 

 though it is unusually pale, and certainly very like some western 

 dia. My knowledge of insueta is at present rather limited, but 

 those I have from eastern localities suggest dark streaky dia 

 with a rufous tinge, and not always a very pronounced one either. 

 I quite expect that insueta will ultimately prove to be the same. 



337. L. multilinea Walker. — I consider this form correctly 

 named. I have a series from Vancouver Island. Besides the 

 Calgary cot\'pe oi anterodara Smith, previously referred to, a female 



