132 JOHN U. SMI'I'II. 



c;il., Vv. E. S. Phil. V. 40, DcUcphila : Biitl'., Hull, i, 20. Deilcphila ; id. 11,225, 

 Hi/h's ; Strk., Lop. Rbop. et Hct. 79 = guliii ; Saund., Can. Ent. ix, (53, fift. 2. 

 DeUephUa; Fruit Ins. 25(), fi.sr. 267 ; EtUv., Pr. Cal. Ac. Sci. vi. 90: Maasson. 

 Stt'tt. Ent. Zeit. 1880, v. 41, p. 58, pr. syn.; Fcrnald.* 8pliinyida> N. E. .55, pi. 

 2, lij;'. 1, Deilcphild ; (Jrt., Hawk Moths :51, Di'ih'philn. 



intermedia lvirl>.v, I'^i. Boi. Am. iv, ;>ii2: Ilarr., Sill. .Inuru. IHi. ;>0() ; G. >t li.. 

 Pr. !•:. S. Phil. V. 179; I?d., Si.. Gen. Hot. i, 1U9, pr. syn.; Strk., Lep. Rhop. 

 ot Hot. 140, pr. syn. ; Beth., Can. Ent. x, 1.52, pr. syn. ; But!., Tr. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond. ix, 5()9. 



canadensis Gn. miss. ({. A li., I'r. E. S. I'liil. v. 179, pr. syn. 



epilobii |, Ilarr,, Cat. Ins. Mass. 18;?3, .590; Sill., .Tonrn. ;>(i, .■)05 (iioiiifn his 

 lectiiiii ). 



Tlu' upper side oC the heail and thorax is olive lirown, with a white striiu' 

 alonu each side, which is edged with black tm the upper side along the thorax. 

 'Vhv \rd\\n ari' whitish beneath and olive brown above. Tlie abdomen is olive 

 l)ro« u, with a row of small white spots alonj; the middle. The lirst and third 

 sej^nients are marked with lilack on the sides; the second, fonrtb and following: 

 segments with white, some of them more ov less suU'used with pinlv. The under 

 side of the thorax iiiul the legs are of a dull yellowish brown and the abdomen 

 i> darker ludwn with white lines along the edge of t he segments. The j.rima- 

 ries are olive brown with a bnfl' colored band t'xtending from the hind margin 

 near the base to the apex of the wing. The lower edge of this band is slightly 

 sinuous, and tlie upper is irregularly indented. There is a black i)atch at the 

 base of the wing and another at the end of the cell, and the terminal space and 

 fringes are olive gray. The secondaries are black, witli a rose-red central liand. 

 wliich eiuls in a white -spot at the inner margin. The outer margin is narrowly 

 edged with dull brown, which is ot'ten stained with reddish. Fringes white. 

 Iteneath paler, more sordid than above, the maeulation of tippi'r side reiirodiiced, 

 the band (Ui prinniries not reaching the himl margin and broader basal ly, so that 

 it becomes really an oblique triangle. Expands 2.1)5 — 3 inches; 65 — 75 nun. 



Hub. — Caiiinhi to (u'oi'oia ; westward to C'alitofiiia ; Laltrtnlor. 



The clasjKM- of the S in tliis species is father siiiaU. slender, I)iit 

 little oiirved, acute at tip. 



A widi'ly distfihiited, l)iit rtither distinctively Northern t'onn, and 

 easily recogni/al)le from the characters above given. 



Walker tirst referred this as a syin)iiyin of gaUii, and \\v is fol- 

 lowed by Clemens in this reference. Harris states that the larva of 

 this species ditiered from that of the European form, but Dr. Harris 

 knew only one of the varieties of. the larva, and I cannot find any 

 essential differences from descriptions. iNIr. Grote again, in 18(i5, 

 Pr. E. S. Ph. V. 40. se])arates the forms as distinct ; he says : " 1 find 

 the following ditlerences in the images, which I am satisfied are spe- 

 cifically distinct. In i)iir species the central fasciti on anteritu" wings 

 i? of a warmer shade, not excavated inwardly at base, and not con- 



