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band at times broken in the middle; we have a series before us from 

 various South Texas localities and also from N. Carolina which shows 

 a distinctly narrower band than in unifascia without much dilation at 

 costal or inner margins; we think therefore that the identification is 

 reasonable sure and would refer tcnuifascia to the Osodania group 

 as a good species ; the $ genitalia are quite distinct from those of 

 unifascia. 



ARCTIINAE 



Apantesis nevadensis G. & R. 



The synonymy of this species as given in Dyar's list needs con- 

 siderable revision. In the first place shastaensis French must be en- 

 tirely removed from this association and be sunk as a synonym of 

 omata Pack; in the Upper Sacramento Valley, the region from which 

 shastaensis was described, the only species of Apantesis known to 

 occur is the typical form of ornata without the white lines on the 

 veins of primaries or with only traces of the same; our own collect- 

 ing experience in this region showed this species to be common and 

 San Francisco collectors who have spent many summers there assured 

 us that no other species was known from that locality. Although the 

 type has been destroyed, the figure given by French (Can. Ent. XXI, 

 162) of the type 9 shows pretty clearly that the reference to ornata 

 is correct. 



Typical nevadensis, the types of which seem to be lost, has an 

 entirely black thorax, but specimens with the usual striped thorax 

 appear to be just as common; the secondaries are of a delicate pale 

 pink in the $ ; behri Stretch appears correctly placed as a synonym. 



Incorrupta Hy. Edw., listed as a variety, must sink to geneura Stkr. 

 The types of the former, as given by Hy. Edwards, were 1 $ from 

 Dalles, Oreg. and 3 9 from Prescott, Ariz. ; an examination of the 

 Hy. Edwards' Collection showed us that the three supposed 9 's were 

 $ 's and one of these specimens bears the type label ; it agrees almost 

 exactly with the type $ of geneura Stkr. which we have examined in 

 the Field Museum. The name will apply to the larger race with 

 bright reddish secondaries common in Arizona and evidently extend- 

 ing northward into Colorado. 



Sulphurica Neum. (ochracea Neum.) is simply an aberration 

 of (jcnenra with yellow secondaries instead of pink; such forms occur 

 sparingly in all the Apantesis species. 



