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Grote mentions after his description that he had found a specimen 

 in the collection of the Canadian Entomological Society labelled 

 " Celcena contrahens by Walker. This was presumably Walker's 

 type. I have seen a male and female type of Morrison's thecata, 

 from New Hampshire, in the Strecker collection, and they are the 

 same species, as already referred by Smith and others. I do not feel 

 quite sure that conar is the same species. It was described from 

 "New Mexico, near the borders of Chihuahua". My notes on the 

 type say that it is "almost flesh-coloured, faintly pink, and not 

 reddish or brown." I have seen nothing else quite like it, and must 

 for the present leave it alone. Hampson's figure under the name 

 conar is contrahens, or more exactly the paler infidelis from Neb- 

 raska. The types oi quadristigma, from Bluff, Utah, and Santa Rita 

 Mts., Ariz., are paler still, and have less of the black sufi"usion 

 usually found in more northern specimens. I might add that Streck- 

 er's description of cowar says the colour is "very light silky grey, 

 or ashen." Though this could scarcely be translated into "pink- 

 ish," as the specimen looked to me, still it is not the way I should 

 describe any contrahens in my collection 



343. Tceniocampa malora Smith, = hibisciGuen. — In Vol. XLII., 

 p. 190, June, 1910, I published a note on hibisci, pointing out that 

 alia was prior to suffusca, and citing the B. C. form, previously 

 known as pacifica, as a local race of hibisci under the new name 

 latirena, of which I called quinquefasciata a variation. On page 

 317, (October), Smith admitted the distinctness of pacifica, elimi- 

 nated the name latirena as valueless, and made hibisci Guen.= 

 confluens Morr., and a variety of instabilis Fitch. He also reinstated 

 his quinquefasciata as a species, and created six more to keep it 

 compan}', figuring genitalia. Dr. Dyar replied to him on page 399. 

 I have to admit that I erred in producing the name latirena rather 

 vaguely, though I thought I made it clear that it was applied to all 

 B. C. forms of hibisci hitherto erroneously called pacifica. Smith 

 was near the mark in saying that it could only be applied as a 

 synonym of the entire pacifica Smith series, with the exception, 

 of course, of pacifica Harvey. As Smith then described two varia- 

 tions of the B. C. forms, both of which I consider variations of 

 hibisci, to avoid future confusion I refer the first of those names, 

 inflava, to latirena Dod. His other name, inherita, applied to B. C- 



