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with a tendency to a dotted outer line, which is rarely complete and 

 may be entirely wanting. 



Expanse.— 1.'2{) to 1.36 inches (30 to 34 mm.). 



TIahitat.—C?i\\^d'A to Florida; Elizabeth, New Jersey, May and June; 

 Ang-lesea, New Jersey, in April; Archer, Florida, in March. 



Twenty or more examples are before me from almost every North 

 and Middle Atlantic State, but only on a few are there dates of 

 capture. 



The sexual and other distinctive characters have been already 

 pointed out, and the range of variation is not great. There is a little 

 difference in depth of ground color, in the relative distinctness of the 

 strigation, and in the amount of black on the disk of the secondaries; 

 otherwise the specimens run very even. 



It is probable that the species extends to the Mississippi Valley, and 

 perhaps to the elevated plains beyond. 



2}/7>.'.— No. 6244, U.S.N.M. 



LEUCANIA MINORATA Smith. 

 Leucania minorata Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXI, 1894, p. 75, pi. v, fig. 11. 

 Ground color grayish luteous, head and collar sometimes obscurely 

 darker, immaculate. Primaries quite obviously strigate, the veins 

 jjaler, the interspaces with one or two or three decidedly darker striga 

 in the interspaces. There is always an obvious though not contrasting 

 shade beneath the median vein, usually a smoky, curved shade on the 

 inner margin near base, and quite frequently a decidedly blackish line 

 between veins 5 and 6. A black dot at the end of the discal vein. 

 Two black dots represent the remnants of the transverse posterior line. 

 There is a series of minute lilack terminal dots, which may be obsolete. 

 Secondaries with disk smoky, the margins whitish. Beneath, prima- 

 ries with a larger or smaller part of the disk smoky, a more obviously 

 blackish shading at the end of the cell. Sometimes with an indicated 

 punctiform outer line. Secondaries white with a small black discal dot. 



Eicpatise.— 1.20 to 1.35 inches (30 to 34 mm.). 



Habitat.— San Francisco, California; Corvallis, Oregon, May 20, 

 June 12, August 24, September 17; Cortield and Livingston, Vancou- 

 ver, throughout July to August 12; Calgary, Alberta, June 24 to 

 July 30. 



Eighteen examples are under examination. The term minorata 

 is a misnomer, if this species is to be compared with luteoj)aIlen.% but 

 I considered it nearer to oxygale in the original description. As a 

 matter of fact, it stands between oxygale and the European 2)(Mem, 

 being really the American representative of the latter species. 



The range of variation, except in size, is small. It is a matter of 

 little more contrast on the primaries between the lighter and darker 

 streakings; a little more or a little less blackish on the secondaries. 



