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should be restricted to the 9 in the Hulst Coll. This 9 is extremely 

 close to the presumable type in the Packard Collection of parallelia 

 which agrees well with Fig. 42 of the Monograph but in view of the 

 difference in type localities we think there are probably distinctions 

 enough to warrant the retention of the names for at least racial forms ; 

 mellitularia will however, we believe, fall to placeraria Gn. described 

 from a specimen taken by Lorquin, the type being figured by Ober- 

 thur in Etudes de Lep. Comp. Fasc. VI, PI. 156, Fig. 1510. These 

 forms or races may be distinguished from the closely allied subpunctata 

 Hist, by the presence of a bent median line on the underside of secon- 

 daries which is practically lacking in subpunctata; this latter species 

 is also more heavily sprinkled with purplish or reddish scales and is 

 apparently confined to the more southerly regions of California, being 

 common around San Diego. We figure a $ and 9 from Oakland, 

 Calif, captured May 28th of what we consider to be parallelia Pack. 

 We further figure a 9 (Fig. 13) from Lake Tahoe of placeraria 

 (mellitularia) taken in July and a $ of subpunctata (Fig. 14) from 

 San Diego, Calif. 



Caberodes majoraria Gn. 



M. Oberthur has figured the type of this species in fitudes de Lep. 

 Comp. Fasc. VI, PI. 157, No. 1522 and mentions in the text (p. 288) 

 that this does not at all agree with Packard's figure of majoraria in 

 the Monograph (PI. XII, Fig. 32). According to the figure majoraria 

 is a synonym of confusaria, having the t. p. line angled below costa 

 just as in this species; this will leave majoraria of Packard without 

 a name ; it is a larger, heavier species with scalloped outer margin of 

 secondaries and t. p. line of primaries slightly rounded outwardly 

 below costa but not angled as in confusaria; it is also further removed 

 from the apex of the wing, slightly incurved below cell and often 

 followed by a dark shade as in Packard's figure; the underside of both 

 wings is sprinkled with yellow scales. The species hardly appears 

 to be correctly located in Caberodes and the emarginate nature of the 

 secondaries suggests Euchlacna to our mind. We propose the name 

 irraria for the species, the type $ in Coll. Barnes having been cap- 

 tured at Chicago, 111. (Kwiat) ; there are Co-types in the collection 

 from New Brighton, Pa., and Cartwright, Man. 



