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tion is named inconciniia Smith, but it does not agree with the type 

 before me. Professor Smith has made this same erroneous determi- 

 nation for the U. S. National Museum, and I suppose that he has con- 

 ceived a wrong idea of his own species, not having the type before him. 



ANARTA MELANOPA Thunberg. 



Eight specimens, July 29 (Bear Lake Mountain). The hind wings 

 are largely black at base, reducing the size of the white space, while 

 the forewings are dark. I judge the form is not so extreme as laerta 

 Smith, but probably connects it with melanopa. Kelloggi Hy. 

 Edwards seems to be the same as or very close to the Kaslo specimens. 



ANARTA LAPPONICA Thunberg. 



One specimen, August 10 (Kokanee Mountain). 



ANARTA ZETTERSTEDTI Staudinger. 



One specimen, August 10 (Kokanee Mountain). It has the fore- 

 wings ver}" dark, the markings nearly lost; hind wings with the white 

 space much reduced and powdered with black. 



TAPINOSTOLA ORIENTALIS Grote. 

 No specimen; one in Mr. Cockle's collection. 



HELIOPHILA OXYGALE Grote. 



One hundred and seventv-two specimens, June 25, July 14, 21, 30, 31, 

 August 5, 6, 7, 11, 12. The form occurring at Kaslo is marked like 

 oxygale from California, but runs smaller, about the size of mlnoi^ata 

 Smith. Most of the specimens are lightly marked, some few run to 

 heavy dark shadings (var. tninorata Smith). I am satisfied, from a 

 couple of slides made of the male genitalia, that there is easily enough 

 variation to account for the slight differences between Smith's figures 

 of oxygale and minorata^"' and therefore the name minorata expresses 

 only a varietal form of oxygale, not a racial one. The species is the 

 western form of the eastern luteo])allens Smith, and both are only 

 geographical expressions of the European pallens Linnaeus, scarcely 

 worthy of more than racial distinction. Eggs were obtained, but 

 the larvfB persisted in hibernating and could not be carried to 

 maturity. 



Egg. — Elliptical, higher than wide, rounded barrel shaped; smooth, 

 shining, pale yellow, with no trace of ribs; reticulations linear, irregu- 

 larly quadrangular, the vertical lines mostly straight, faint, scarcely 

 raised, smaller, and rounded on the vertex to the micropylar rosette. 

 Diameter, 0.6 mm.; height, 0.7 mm. 



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