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but it has not yet tliveiged from it in a 

 specific degree, since a reversion ma)- 

 lie readily obtained. The moths of 

 cana were described as different from 

 the coast form, but the onlv two males 

 which I have seen aie so considerably 

 unlike anil so near to vetusta that I do 

 not hesitate to consider their differences 

 as simply \'arietal. 



Notolophus antiqua Linn. 



nova Fitch ; hadia Hy. Edw. 



I have l)red the English form from 

 eggs kindly sent me by Mr. J. R. 

 Wilson. The larvae were exactly- like 

 our New York ones ; but e.\hibited four 

 stages for male and five for female 

 larvae, as seems to be possible in the 

 case of all the species of this geiuis. 

 The side tufts appeared in stage iv or 

 traces in some larvae as early as stage 

 iii. I can thus positiveh' confirm the 

 identit\- of antiqua and nova. The 

 moths were alike. As to the Vancouver 

 Island badia, I have bred these from 

 the eggs originalh obtained there for 

 three years. It will be remembered 

 that hadia is characterized by the 

 absence of the side tufts. However, 

 among the large number obtained, I 

 not infrequentlv found traces of the side 

 tufts or even a well developed pencil, 

 especiall}' in large female larvae. When 

 present, the tufts had exactly the same 

 characters as in norm;d antiqua, and it 

 ap[)ears that we have in badia a form 

 in whicli the side tufts (a lately ac- 

 quired character in the geinis) appear 

 later than usual oi' even not at all. 

 That is badia represents a more gen- 

 eralized condition than in the dominant 



race which extends over so wide an 

 area. That it cannot be a degenerate 

 form, in wliicli the tufts are disap- 

 pearing, is shown bv the fact that they 

 appear only in the last stage, and most 

 frequently in females, which liave an 

 additional stage. In a degenerate form 

 we should expect to see the pencils, 

 when present, apjjear in stage iv, as 

 usual, and liecome obsolete in the later 

 stages. I think that the fact of the 

 actual presence of the tufts in badia, 

 though not universal, together with 

 their reaih fertility with normal anti- 

 qua, must compel us to place hadia as 

 a local race of antiqua, though a moie 

 distinct one than in the case of the Cali- 

 fornian species just described. The 

 moth of badia often difitrs markedly 

 from the antiqua pattern, though not 

 constantly so. 



Notolophus leucostigma A. & .S. 



leucografha Geyer ; intermedia 

 Fitch ; borealis Fitch : obliviosa Hy. 

 Edw. ; inornata Beut. 



riie first four of these synonymic 

 names refer to descriptions or figures of 

 the moth. In Psyche (vi, 420, note) I 

 referred inornata to this species. Mr. 

 Beutenmtiller, however, has not ac- 

 cepted the s\non\'m, but states (Joiun. 

 N. Y. ent. soc, ii, 30, note) that "the 

 larva is totalh distinct from the well 

 known leucostigma." I have, there- 

 fore, carefully compared Mr. Beuten- 

 milller's description with specimens of 

 leucostigma. His description runs as 

 follows :■'... Body above mouse 

 coloi . u ith three rows orange tubercles 

 along each side. Each tubercle pro- 



