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Group I — qS, 49- — These have the oblique brown band 

 extending from above and within inner angle of primaries 

 toward apex, unbroken or nearly so, and thus more nearly 

 resemble the <? parent. Figs. 3 and 4 represent this group. 

 The females have the median white spot less deeply incised 

 on its outer end than the males. 



Group 2 — 2 $ 129 . — These have the oblique band obsolete, 

 or at most represented by a projecting spur of varying form at 

 base, and thus approach more nearl}- the 9 parent. Figs. 5 

 and 6 are from this group. Variation is toward greater fusion 

 of the white spots and obsolescence of the brown. One female 

 is practically identical wnth Fig. 3 of Lyman's plate, above re- 

 ferred to, except for outer oblique band being obsolete save for 

 a spur at base. The other females in this group show gradual 

 approach to this extreme from Fig. 6 of accompanying plate. 



Of this whole brood of moths those in Division A cannot be 

 said to approach more nearly to one parent than to the other. 

 Of the twenty-seven in Division B thirteen more nearly resem- 

 ble S and fourteen the 9 parent. The influence of each parent 

 would thus appear to be about equal, so far as color and mark- 

 ings are concerned. Each sex, however, shows a strong ten- 

 dency to follow the parent of the same sex. Thus 82 per cent, 

 of the $ S more nearly resemble the S parent. Seventy-five 

 per cent, of the 9 9 more nearly resemble the 9 parent. 



PROGENY OF PAIR No. 2. 19S— 21S. 

 The chief difference between the parents of this brood (Figs. 

 1 1 and 12) is in the shape of the median white spot on prima- 

 ries, which in the % is convex on outer margin and in the 9 

 concave. The 9 also shows tendenc3' toward fusion of the 

 white spots. The differences among the progeny were not 

 such as to admit of a classification into fairly distinct groups, 

 as was the case in the brood above described. While no indi- 

 viduals reproduced the pattern of male parent exactly the gen- 

 eral tendency of each sex to follow the parent of the same sex 

 was quite as obvious as in the progeny of pair No. i . A great 

 proportion of the males were of the typical cojifusa form, and 

 the widest departures from the normal were in the direction of 



