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been sent to the museum at Ottpwa, in appreciation of courtesies 

 extended. 



Autographa interalia new species. 



This is a new form, also discovered at Nordegg by Mr. K. 

 Bowman, who has let me see two specimens, both females, and in 

 fine condition, so that there can be no doubt about my determination 

 of this as a new form. I mention this because of the fact that I 

 myself collected a male of this species at Banf, but being a poor 

 specimen I mistakenly placed it with my series of alias. Interalia 

 adds one more species to the group including alias and rcctangula, 

 having the same peculiar sign. It varies from them by being uni- 

 formly gray and practically unsilvered. Alias is browner with more 

 silver whereas rcctangula, though brown, is of a blacker hue than 

 alias. 



The type of interalia is with the author, and a paratype with Mr. 

 Bowman, both females. 



Autographa rectangula race nargenta new race. 



Autographa rcctangula, the older name, takes precedence over 

 Autographa mortuorum, and in many lists is given as a synonym. Sir 

 George Hampson, with good judgment 1 think, retains mortuorum 

 as an aberration, thus accounting for the name. Mortuorum differs 

 from rectangula only in the sign, which in mortuorum is divided so 

 that it has an outer dot. In some specimens this dot even is absent, 

 only the inner half of the sign appearing. This form, or " aberra- 

 tion " as Sir George Hampson calls it, occurs more often in Canada 

 than in the United States. 



I believe that I have discovered a race of this species worthy 

 of a name. I have suspected this for some time, basing my notion 

 upon two specimens sent to me by Mr. Hanham from Vancouver's 

 Island, and my suspicion has been confirmed by considerable ma- 

 terial received from Mr. Cockle, at Kaslo, B. C. I may say in pass- 

 ing that Mr. Cockle has taken numerous species that I have hereto- 

 fore obtained mainly from Vancouver. 



In the typical rcctangula the T.P. line usually shows merely as 

 the inner edge or border of a silvery cloud which more or less fills 

 the space between the T.P. line and the outer border of the primaries. 

 I have examined two hundred eastern examples. 



