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In the new race, nargenta, there is much less silvering, and the 

 ground color is blacker, making the insect, as a whole, darker. The 

 best distinguishing character will be the T.P. line which is distinct 

 and doubled, inclosing silver. 



The type and paratypes are with the author, but paratypes have 

 been sent to Mr. Cockle and Mr. Bowman. 



Autographa ce!sa race sierras new race. 



I recently sent to Sir George Hampson a set of four specimens of 

 Autographa celsa showing the range of variation, which is from a 

 light brown to almost black. In reply he writes as follows : "I 

 should call all these specimens octoscripta, Grote. H. Edwards dis- 

 tinctly describes the stigma of the Oregon species as greenish and 

 silvery, whilst in those you send it varies from pure white to golden 

 silvery. " 



There are at hand two " types " of celsa, one in the Edwards col- 

 lection in the American Museum of Xatural History, and the other in 

 the Xeumoegen collection. Brooklyn Museum. We may perhaps call 

 the sign in the former silvery, but in the latter it is certainly golden. 



I have a long series taken by Mr. Hanham in Vancouver's Island. 

 I have specimens from Oregon and specimens also taken by Mr. 

 Cockle in Kaslo, B. C. These have been identified by comparison 

 with the above mentioned types, and though this species varies, quite 

 as much as does A. califomica, there is no doubt about this identifica- 

 tion. Though I have never been able to find Grote's type of octo- 

 scripta, celsa is quite distinct from what I have been calling octo- 

 scripta. The sign in celsa therefore is variable from white, to silvery 

 and golden. 



Some three years ago at Lake Taho I captured five females of 

 a beautifully soft gray creature which at first I thought to be a new- 

 species. Except in color however I cannot separate it from celsa. 

 In the American Museum. I found a specimen of this form placed 

 with celsa, and labeled *' Sierra Xev., Cal." Later I found two speci- 

 mens in the collection of Dr. Barnes labeled ** Deer Park Springs, 

 Lake Taho." More recently still Dr. Van Duzee sent me a specimen 

 labeled " Trinity Meadows, Trinity County. Cal." Dr. Van Duzee 

 writes me as follows: "Trinity Meadows, though much nearer the 

 coast has many Sierra species and it is not surprising that a Taho 



