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Peridroma infecla Ochs., will probably have to replace ificiv/s Gn., 

 as Hampson writes. The British Museum series is a long one, cov- 

 ering a good range of both North and South American localities, and 

 while the extremes look as distinct to me as ever, the intermediate 

 range appears to fill in the gap completely. 



Noctua Inbricans Gn. To this specimen Hampson cites illapsa 

 and associans Wlk., and beata Grote. Associans is a pure synonym 

 of lubricans ; associans is ranked as a Canadian and eastern form, and 

 beata as a Avestern form. This is right, in a way : ////^r/Vd'/w and asso- 

 cians refer to the same form and so does spreta Smith I am afraid, 

 although my specimens are much grayer and more uniform than the 

 types of the older species. The species that is most commonly marked 

 lubricans in our collections is not this Floridian form at all ; but is the 

 form to which the name illapsa more specifically applies. It ranges 

 in ground color from gray to reddish and varies greatly in other direc- 

 tions ; but there is no specific connection with the type which I sepa- 

 rated as spreta and to which, apparently, the name lubricans really 

 belongs. Beata Grt., is also a good species I believe. 



Anomogyna Icetabilis Zett., is recorded from Labrador by Hamp- 

 son, on what authority I do not know. The species is not represented 

 in the British Museum by American examples, and I have not seen it 

 so as to recognize it in any of our own collections. Nevertheless the 

 thing is not impossible, and perhaps the name had better be added to 

 our lists. 



Abagrotis ornata Sm. , is placed with A. erratica in the collection 

 and apparently with justice. Dr. Dyar collected this species in large 

 numbers at Kaslo, and it appears that while my erratica happened to 

 be the almost immaculate form, the specimens I made types of ornata 

 were sharply and clearly marked, with all the normal maculation well 

 written. 



The first volume of the series ends with Protagrotis viralis, a 

 species which I referred as identical with Luperina passer from my 

 previous examination. In the determination that there is a single 

 spine between the two pairs of spuragon the hind tibia, Hampson is 

 undoubtedly correct, and it is equally certain that in my long series 

 o^ passer I have no example that shows this peculiarity. Hence viralis 

 in spite of its similarity to a form of passer, must be restored to rank 

 as a good species. 



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