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i'. !>iciti»ici*i|»tji, Walker. 



1865.— Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Pt. x.xxii, p. 408. 

 Candida Liiituer. 



1878.--Liiitner, Kept. Mus. N. Y. xxx. p. 199. 

 Shiniug white, marked like multiscripta, but without greeni.sh shades. T. a. 

 band absent, or partly present, composed of about four irregular ringlets: discal 

 spot absent, or a ringlet. T. p. band of two or three dentate black lines with 

 black mark at costa and internal angle. Black dots at base of fringe, varying 

 in size. Secondaries white, or shaded with brownish along the veins. Expanse 

 30—40 ram. 



Hah. — Texas, Kansas. 



C'. oecideiifaliK Lintner. 



187S.— Lintuer, Rep. Mus. >?. Y. xxx, p. 194. 

 Very pale cinereous; t. a. band edged by darker scales. The basal dots and 

 median line distinct. T. p. line dentate, with its costal band present. Terminal 

 dots large. 



Hal). — Atlantic States. 



C'. N(M»l<»i><'ii<lriiia Boisduval. 



1870. — Boisduval. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xii, p. 86. Dicranura. 



aqiidonaris Lintner. 

 1878. — Lintner, Rep. N. Y. Mus. xxx, p. 19.5. Ceriira. 

 var. alhicoina Strecker. 



18S5.~Stri'cker, Froc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1884, p. 284. 

 White, marked much as occidentalism but the basal dots less distinct. T. a. 

 band defined by black lines and orange scales, varying much in width. Secon- 

 daries while with terminal and discal dots, and often traces of a mesial band. 



Hab. — Canada, Rocky Mountains, California and the Pacific 

 Northwest. 



C". iiio(le!>ita Hudson. 



1891. — Hutlson, Can. Ent. vol. xxiii, p. 197. 

 Very pale cinereous, all the dots reduced. T a. band and subapical bands 

 broad, uniform, almost bluish black. All the marks more smooth and smoky 

 than in occidentalism and the fine lines and dots indistinct. 



Hah. — Northern Atlantic States. 



<'. borealis Guerin. 



1829. — Guerin, Icon. r. anim. pi. 88, f. 5. Dicranura. 



White, centre of thorax black, and abdomen black banded. Basal and ter- 

 minal dots distinct. T. a. baud very broad, black, edged with black lines and 

 orange scales. T. p. costal shades runs narrovvly across the wing; central den- 

 tate line between the bauds broken uj) into distinct dots which form a regular 

 ellipse. Hind wings smoky outvi'ardly with terminal and discal dots. 



Hah. — Atlantic States. 



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