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Calgary form, except that it was ochreous-tinted throughout, which 

 made me doubt its identity. 



361. C. speyeri Lint. — Another female. July 10, 1900, for- 

 merly in my intermedia series, appears to be this species, but was 

 labelled intermedia on Smith's authority. The error was excus- 

 able, as it is duller and less black-streaked than speyeri usually is, 

 but has all the other characters of that closely allied species, in- 

 cluding the pearly white though dusky-margined secondaries. I 

 have the species from Illinois, Volga (S.D.), Colorado, and Aweme, 

 Manitoba. 



362. C. intermedia Speyer. — I consider that this is the correct 

 name for the form occurring here. Any attempt to separate it 

 from intermedia from the east is hopeless, though eastern 

 specimens, as a whole, are a trifle darker, due to their being more 

 sufifused with brown shades. I have Calgary and eastern spec- 

 imens matching exactly. Hampson figures a Calgary example as 

 Cinderella. The latter was described from a single Colorado male 

 collected by David Bruce. I saw it in the Washington collection, 

 and it has the transverse maculation almost obsolete. A Colorado 

 female in the same collection certainly suggested a faintly marked 

 intermedia. The validity of Cinderella as a species is open to much 

 doubt. 



365. Tapinostola variana Morr.? — I had listed this species as 

 orientalis Grt., but that, according to the description, has a t. p. 

 line of blackish dots, and the subcostal and median nervures are 

 finely lined within the cell with black. This sounds like the 

 species figured by Sir George Hampson, from Renirew County, 

 Ontario, as inquinata Guen., of which he has the type from New 

 York, and of which he makes orientalis a synonym. My notes on 

 inquinata type do not mention a black streak immediately above 

 the median vein, nor does Hampson mention it in his description 

 in the Catalogue. His synonymy, however, is probably correct. 

 Sir George's description is all I have of variana, besides a reference 

 thereto by Grote, and the only difi'erence mentioned is the absence 

 of the t. p. line. Holland figures as variana a Winnipeg male 

 from the Washington Museum. I compared this specimen and 

 concluded that the Calgary species was distinct and also probably 



