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Museum, and the reference appears to be correct, though this 

 stands as distinct in Smith's list, and in Grote's 1895 Hst. 

 Grote in the description laid emphasis on the pale discolorous 

 r-eniform. It is the least marked form of the species which 

 has received a name, and to this variety atoma will be most 

 correctly referred. BadicolUs stands as "ab. i. " in Hampson, 

 as a very grey and strongly marked form, with black well de- 

 veloped. This is based on an Abingdon, ^lass., specimen, 

 which my notes refer to as a type, but as it is not so listed by 

 Hampson, I must have been in error. Type elimata is about 

 intermediate between these two extremes. 



Setagrotis vocalis Grote, 



Dr. Dyar in Proc. U. S. N. M. XXVII. 821, 1904 (Kootenai 

 List), referred planifrons Smith and congrua Smith to this 

 species, and correctly so. Grote's type is in the British ]^Iuseum, 

 a female from Colorado. Hampson figures a male of the same 

 species. The figure is ochreous. Congrua was described from 

 a single Oregon male. Hampson's figure of this is copied from 

 a colored drawing of it, and is on the whole good, though a 

 trifle exaggerated in color. The type is at Washington. Plani- 

 frons was described in the same paper from a single female 

 from ''Northwest British Columbia," from the Neumoegen col- 

 lection, where 1 have seen it. Hampson's figure of this is also 

 from a colored drawing, and has turned out pretty good, but 

 a little too pale. I have compared Colorado specimens from 

 my series with all three of the above types, and matched voca- 

 lis and congrua very closely indeed. I was not so successful 

 with planifrons, but have two rather damaged females from 

 Nanaimo, B. C, from the Taylor collection which are some- 

 what sufifused and have a pronounced fuscous central shade, 

 and one of these comes very close to the figure and is in ac- 

 cordance with my notes. Specimens from Kaslo, B. C. are 

 darker blue-grey, and some of them have the central shade 

 strongly developed. 



Type vocalis, by the way, shows a central shade. I have 

 pale specimens of this species from Provo and Eureka, Utah, 

 and two from these localities are figured as vocalis by Messrs. 



