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and recently through the kind offices of Mr. G. Maheux, Provincial 

 Entomologist of Quebec, we have been able to trace this type in the 

 Collection of Laval University, Quebec, and have received a photograph 

 of the same. It turns out to be the same species as cristifera Wlk. 

 and the name must therefore be removed from Scotogramma and sunk 

 as a synonym of this earlier name. 



POLIA SUBJUNCTA G. & R. 



This species has a very wide range extending from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific and from British Columbia on the north to Southern 

 California in the south; it is not surprising, therefore, that several 

 more or less well defined races can be separated ; one of the best 

 marked of these we have received from Southern California, it differ- 

 ing from the typical form of the Atlantic States in the general much 

 lighter and grayer color and the almost entire absence of the carneous 

 shades, especially beyond the reniform ; above the basal streak and 

 beyond the claviform the reddish shade still persists, but the general 

 impression is that of a distinctly gray species. We propose the racial 

 name eleanora for this form, our type series consisting of 2 3 and 

 6 9 from Nellie, Palomar Mt., S. Diego Co., Calif. We figure the 

 form on PI. XVI, Fig. 1. 



POLIA HANHAMI B. & McD. 



In Central and Southern California this species assumes quite a 

 different aspect from that of the typical Vancouver Is. form (PI. XVI, 

 Fig. 6) ; in the Calif ornian race (Fig. 5) the ground color of pri- 

 maries is a pale flesh-color and the rather heavy blackish suffusion in 

 the median and terminal spaces is greatly reduced, the dark median 

 shade and the black-filled lower portion of reniform show very clearly 

 in consequence; this latter has a couple of whitish dots on each side 

 of the black filling but there is no trace of any white suffusion beyond 

 the reniform as is often seen in the typical form. We propose the 

 racial name semicarnea for this form, our type series consisting of 

 4 S and 3 9 from Camp Baldy, S. Bernardino Co., Calif. (June- 

 July) ; we also have the species from Middle Calif, and Nellie, San 

 Diego Co., Calif. 



POLIA PULVERULENTA Sm. (PI. XVI, Figs. 2, 3). 



Through the kindness of Prof. H. T. Fernald of Amherst, Mass., 

 we have received a photograph of the unique type of this species con- 



