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French's description is very clear and applies exactly to Co-types of 

 merrickalis before us as well as to a long New Brighton series ; in 

 his revision Smith sank forbcsi to rotundalis and later probably, re- 

 cognizing the differences as specific but overlooking French's name, 

 redescribed the species. Forbesi (PI. XVIII, Fig. 11) is a much bet- 

 ter marked species than rotiindaUs; the t. p. and s. t. lines are marked 

 at costa with ochreous streaks, the former is much more strongly bent 

 outward below costa and more irregularly dentate ; the secondaries 

 are paler on both sides with two distinct dark cross-lines and a pale 

 s. t. line in the broad dark marginal border. 



The two other forms before us have received Mss. names from 

 Smith and we have Co-types in our collection; the names however 

 have never been published as far as we can ascertain ; using Smith's 

 names we therefore present here the characteristic features of each 

 species. 



C. JULIA sp. nov. (PI. XVIII, Fig. 13) is close to rotundalis but aver- 

 ages rather larger and is slightly paler with faint pale dots on costa 

 at the inception of the lines; the t. a. is bordered inwardly by a faint 

 pale line, the t. p. is bent more strongly outward beyond the cell and 

 the reniform is represented by a distinct pale dot; beneath a very 

 characteristic feature is the pale basal area of secondaries with the 

 dark discal dot preceded half way to base of wing by a small dark dot; 

 there is a distinct broad postmedian line and pale s. t. line. Four of 

 Smith's Co-types before us are from New Brighton, Pa. ; we have 

 other specimens from the same locality as well as from Manchester, 

 N. H., and Decatur, 111. 



C. DiMiNUENDis sp. nov. (PI. XVIII, Fig. 12) is the smallest of the 

 four species, averaging 18 mm. wing expanse and is at once recogniz- 

 able by the ochreous orbicular and reniform, the former a mere dot, 

 the latter small but distinct ; the color is even purple-brown with no 

 ochreous shades along costa ; the t. p. line black, irregular, well bent 

 out at costa and incurved in fold ; the under side is rather even dull 

 smoky with base of secondaries paler with small discal dot and post- 

 median line. We have before us a long series from New Brighton, 

 Pa., including five of Smith's Co-types; we also have the species from 

 Pittsburg, Pa. ( 9 Co-type), Cincinnati, Ohio, and Douglas Lake, 

 Michigan. 



