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from California. These California specimens appear very closely 

 related to galbanaria Hist, the type 2 of which is in the Hulst Coll. ; 

 the true argillaria is grayer in color, with more prominent discal dot 

 and stronger angle in t. p. line below costa. 



Synaxis jubararia Hist. (PI. XIV, Fig. 1). 



The 9 type from Washington State is well figured in Holland's 

 Moth Book (PI. 45, Fig. 20) ; the species described later as pallulata 

 Hist. (Fig. 2), which is the type of the genus Synaxis, is possibly an 

 aberrant form of the $ . A long series before us from Vancouver 

 Is., B. C. shows great variability in color and markings ; the 9 's are 

 usually quite reddish, the S 's paler, often quite pale ochreous with 

 the cross lines heavily bordered with black or the median space filled 

 with darker scaling, this latter being typical pallulata; we figure $ 's 

 of both forms from Vancouver Island. 



Pherne mellitularia Hist. (PI. XV, Figs. 7, 8). 



Hulst based this name in part on Packard's description in the 

 Monograph of parallelia and his Figs. 42 and 43, PI. XII, claiming 

 that the name parallelia must be restricted to Fig. 42 as two species 

 were involved. He had however without doubt misidentified par- 

 allelia for he makes it synonymous with excelsa Stkr. (Ent. Am. I 

 202) a species from Colorado and Arizona with nowpectinate antennae 

 in the 9 whereas Packard in the Monograph claims pectinate anten- 

 nae for both sexes. The original description of parallelia is poor, as 

 Hulst states, but if we combine the fact that the type specimen came 

 from Behrens (Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. XVI, 38) with the statement 

 in the Monograph under parallelia (p. 551) that Packard had two 

 specimens from Behrens taken at Sauzalito, it is probable that the 

 type locality for parallelia is Sauzalito, i. e. the vicinity of San Fran- 

 cisco Bay ; the species is probably double brooded on the coast as we 

 have specimens from Oakland taken in May and September. 



Hulst gives Arizona, California, and Nevada as type localities 

 for melliUilaria, describing the species from 5 $ 3 9 in the collec- 

 tions of Tepper, Hy. Edwards, and Hulst. Of these type specimens 

 all we could find were 1 9 from Summit, Sierra Nevadas, Calif, in 

 the Plulst Collection and 2 9 's from the same locality in the Hy. 

 Edwards' Collection ; the other specimens may have been removed 

 from the series later by Hulst as not being conspecific or they may 

 have been destroyed ; at all events we think it wise that the 'Type' 



