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Hadena luteocinerea Smith. 



This species, described from a single Montana male, appear- 

 ed to me the same as the foregoing, nearer to typical characta 

 than to the paler erica. Most of the black markings shown in 

 Ilampson's figure, copied from a colored drawing of the type, 

 are erroneous. 



Andropolia submissa Smith (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. xix, 138, Sept., 

 1911) = illepida Grt. = diversilineata Grt. 



Smith's description was made from five females from Provo, 

 Utah, whence I have a long series agreeing fully with it. One 

 of these, a male, with bipectinate antennae, I have compared 

 with Grote's male type of illepida in the British Museum. 

 Another, a female, I compared with the female type, referred 

 by Hampson to diversilineata which he keeps distinct, principal- 

 ly as having well marked t. a. and t. p. lines. He also mentions 

 a pale red-brown suffusion in illepida, not in diversilineata 

 male. Smith comments at some length on these characters and 

 Hampson's reference, in the paper above referred to, and ad- 

 mits that the red brcwn colouration is the only character that 

 can possibly separate Grote's two names as species. Grote in 

 his 1895 Check List eliminates the name diversilineata alto- 

 gether as based on what Smith claimed was a patched speci- 

 men in Packard's collection, now at Cambridge, Mass. 

 I happen to possess no Colorado specimens to which the red- 

 dish shading is attributed, but have carefully examined Grote's 

 male type of illepida twice, and am satisfied as to my refer- 

 ence. The variation in my Utah and Arizona series is very 

 considerable, but all the characters intergrade. The t. a. and 

 t. p. lines are sometimes practically obsolete, though this is 

 more frequently the case in males than in females. Some 

 specimens have very little maculation at all, while others have 

 it very distinct and contrasting. Such specimens have gen- 

 erally the whitest ground. Brown shades are evident in a 

 few. 



Polia resoluta Smith. 



Described from a pair collected by Bruce in Colorado, and 

 the male type is figured with the description. Sir George 



