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also seen it from Redvers, Sask., through Mr. Croker. It is not so rare 

 in Europe as in North America, where I have only seen four examples. 

 I have a specimen from England, through Mr. L. B Prout, which 

 approaches the variety, but it is more suffused and is almost unicolorous. 



Var. (e) nigrescens Hoyningen-Heune (Berl. Ent. Zeit., 51, p. 254, 

 1906). 



This variety is almost unicolorou5, and has the white mesial space 

 entirely suffused with cinereous, giving the wings a dusty appearance. The 

 markings are very indistinct, and the whole insect has a smoky aspect. I 

 have specimens from Berlin, Germany \ Southport, England, and have 

 seen a specimen from Redvers, Sask., through Mr. Croker. 



These are all the varieties, so far, that have turned up, and are easily 

 distinguished from the normal form by their colour. Walker described in 

 J 860 (Cat. Brit. Mus., XXI, 489) Boarmii divisaria, which has been 

 stated to be a synonym of autumiialis in Dyar's List, but the description 

 does not seem to apply, and I doubt the reference. The type is in the 

 D'Urban collection. Walker also described renwiciata (Cat. Brit. Mus., 

 XXIV, 1187, 1862), from Hudson Bay, and frigidata (Cat. Brit. Mus., 

 XXVI, 1729, 1862), from Nova Scotia, which are synonyms oi atitumnalis 

 in all probability, as Packard states in his notes on the North American 

 Moths of the family Phalsenidse in the British Museum (5th Rep. Peabody 

 Acad., p. 88, 1873), that they are our common pluviata. 



9. Hydrioviena transfigurata Swett(CAN. Ent., XLIV, p. 195, 1912). 



This is a pointed-wing species and closely resembles irata Swett in 

 markings, though the antennae of the latter will quickly separate it. It 

 does not resemble auiuin?ialis greatly, but I have generally found it mixed 

 with the latter in collections. H. transfigurata can be readily separated 

 by the time of appearance (early May), the tendency of intra- and extra- 

 discal lines to unite near the inner margin, the dark hind wings and the 

 distance of the extradiscal line from the outer margin in fore wings ; also 

 the faint median and marginal bands which are prominent in all other 

 species. I should say this species is confined to the Atlantic States, and 

 has occurred more commonly in the last two years than ever before. 

 There is no form like it in Europe so far as I have seen, and it is not very 

 common here, the only localities being Forest Hills and Cohasset, Mass., 

 and New Brighton, Pa. 



