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tained in Mrs. Fernald's Collection, now in the possession of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College; the species is a good one and not 

 a form of assimilis as listed ; it is one of those northern forms which 

 extend across the entire continent and is apparently commoner on 

 the Pacific coast than in the east ; we have a series of specimens from 

 Ketchikan, Alaska, and have seen several from the vicinity of Vic- 

 toria, B. C. ; it is also reported from various localities in the Canadian 

 Rockies and from Winnipeg, Man. Mr. Wolley-Dod's remarks in 

 the Report of the Ent. Soc. Ont. for 1910, p. 110 concerning the species 

 are perfectly correct and it was due to the fact that our attention was 

 called to this note by Mr. E. Blackmore of Victoria that we were 

 spared from describing the Pacific coast specimens as a new species. 

 The $ genitalia, while essentially of the same general type, show 

 sufficient difference from assimilis in the finer detail to leave no doubt 

 as to its specific distinctness ; our series shows considerable variation 

 in the size and shape of the spots and in the distinctness of the macu- 

 lation ; we figure a couple of specimens to illustrate this. 



Epia amabilis sp. nov. (PI. XVI, Fig. 4). 



Head and thorax deep smoky gray, collar crossed by a black line ; pro 

 and mesothoracic tufts tipped with black; primaries deep gray; basal half-line 

 geminate, inner line black, broken, outer one gray, indistinct ; t. a. line out- 

 wardly oblique, geminate, almost rigid, inner line gray, outer black ; t. p. line 

 rather squarely exserted around cell, strongly incurved in the submedian fold, 

 geminate, inner line black, outer gray, slightly crenulate ; median space below 

 cell black shaded, obscuring a small black claviform, orbicular large, round, 

 pale with darker central area ; renif orm moderate, lunate, edged with white 

 and then with black, most prominently on inner side ; s. t. line pale, arising 

 from a dark costal shade and edged inwardly with smoky, forming a small W 

 mark on veins 3 and 4, preceded by short black dashes ; terminal dark crenulate 

 line; fringes dusky. Secondaries dark smoky, paler basally with dark discal 

 lunule. Beneath smoky, both wings paler basally, secondaries most promin- 

 ently so ; discal dot on all wings ; postmedian dark line on secondaries. Ex- 

 panse 29 mm. 



Habitat: Loma Linda, S. Bernardino Co., Calif. 1 $ Type, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



The species is allied to niinorata Sm. but differs from the type, 

 with which we recently compared it, by the lack of brown shades on 

 primaries and the more strongly incurved nature of the t. p. line below 

 cell. 



