38 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



292. M. neoterica Smith. — I have now seen the types of this species 

 from Wmnipeg, and have a similar series in my collection from Cart- 

 wright. This form is small and rather dull and even in colour. Walker's 

 type oi detract a is a male in the British Museum from Trenton Falls, N.Y., 

 where is also Grote's claviplena from Evans Centre. These two are cer- 

 tainly one species, and I cannot see that Jieotenca is anything but a local 

 variation of it. Typical detracta is larger, more olivaceous, and usually 

 far less even in colour. Calgary specimens are intermediate in average 

 size, but nearest the eastern form in colotir. Calgary and eastern speci- 

 mens can be found exactly alike, but usually the former are paler. 

 Dr. Dyar in the Kootenai List refers neoterica as a race of detracta, and 

 mentions that the Kaslo form differs slightly from either, being dull and 

 even like îieoterica and large, like detracta. I have some from Provo, 

 Utah, which are most like the Kaslo form, but paler. The relative differ- 

 ence in size between the sexes at Calgary and in the east, does not appear 

 to be constant, the females seeming 10 average a trifle smaller than the 

 males where the species occurs. 



294. M. meodana Smith. — (Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc, XVIII, 95, June, 

 1 910.) This is the name which Prof Smith has given to what I had 

 listed as liquida, and he made a Calgary male and female type, and 

 co-types from Calgary ; Pullman, Wash ; Yellowstone Park, Wyo.; Arrow- 

 head Lake, B.C.; and Denver, Colo. He says : "The species has been 

 confused with liquida Grt., which is a much more contrastingly mottled 

 form occurring in- Washington, and probably over a similar range. 

 Liquida, as described, and as figured by Hampson, has narrower, more 

 pointed primaries, and while the type of maculation is similar, meodana is 

 neatly and quietly ornamented, while liquida is strongly contrasted and 

 showy." In Ent News., XXI, 398, Nov., 19 10, I commented upon the 

 forms, expressing a doubt as to their distinctness as species. I have little 

 to add to that. Vancouver Island specimens in my collection are a bit 

 brighter than typical meodana, which I look upon as variation rather than 

 a species. 



297. Af. jievadœ Grt. — One of my Calgary specimens I have com- 

 pared with the type, a female (not male as stated in the Cataloguei, in the 

 British Museum, from the Sierra Nevada, California. Banff and Kaslo 

 specimens are similar. Sir George Hampson makes canadensis Smith a 

 synonym, as had previously been suggested by Dr. Dyar in the Kootenai 



