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In ATarch, 1881, Hy. Edwards gives the name proba (Pap. I, 39) 

 to the mountain form of vagans {punctata) distinguished by "having 

 the secondaries always concolorous with the primaries in both sexes 

 and by the maculate band being more broken up into spots." In Oct., 

 1881, Butler, misidentifying the 9 vagans as rubra Neum. described 

 as a new species under the name walsinghami a single red $ from 

 Rogue (not Rouge as given) River, S. Oregon; our own collecting 

 experience in the Shasta region of Northern California proves con- 

 clusively that walsinghami is nothing more than the 9 of proba Hy. 

 Edw.; the race, as stated by Hy. Edwards, seems perfectly constant, 

 the $'s (PI. XIV, Fig. 2) being dull ochreous with more or less 

 black spotting on both wings and the 9 's (PI. XIV, Fig. 17) rather 

 bright crimson with very little black on secondaries. 



Kasloa Dyar (1904, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. VI, 18) would seem to 

 be a northern race of vagans, characterized by the bright ruddy wings 

 in both sexes; there is considerable variability in the maculation of 

 secondaries and pale specimens show a close resemblance to proba Hy. 

 Edw. which, however, we have never seen in the $ sex with ruddy 

 suffusion. 



Bicolor Wlk. (1862, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. I, 270), a species omitted 

 by Hampson but listed by Dyar, seems correctly referred by the latter 

 to vagans. 



As far as our material permits us to judge, ptcridis Edw. (PI. 

 XIV, Figs. 15, 16) may be se]>arated from vagans and its forms, apart 

 from its smaller size, by the fact that the secondaries in both sexes 

 are black right up to the base of the fringe, whereas in those speci- 

 mens of vagans which show black secondaries we find a distinct pale 

 marginal area, a fact which fits in excellently with Boisduval's char- 

 acterization "fringes broadly yellowish-gray". In typical vagans the 

 $ 's range in color from yellowish-ochre to deep smoky brown — we 

 have never seen any red $ 's nor had apparently Stretch — the 9 's 

 from ruddy-brown to bright brick-red, the secondaries in both sexes 

 being more or less heavily suiifused with black; the race proba Edw. 

 has pale ochreous $ 's and bright red 9 's with secondaries concol- 

 orous with primaries, and the race kasloa Dyar has red wings in both 

 sexes with the secondaries showing all forms of variation between 

 black and red in which latter case there is a more or less distinct 

 maculate submarginal black band. 



