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marked eastern form, without the least tendency to the havilce 

 type, which is marked in some Calgary examples. 



Chorizagrotis balinitis Grote, July 15 (i) ; July 24(5); 

 July 23 (i) ; July 27 (2) ; July 28 (i) ; August 2 (i) ; August 

 2 (i) ; August 5 (i) ; August 6(1); August 14 (i) ; August 

 21 (i). Evidently a common species in this locality and 

 probably close to its true home. It has been also recorded from 

 Calgary, British Columbia, and the Mountains of Colorado. I 

 have two specimens labelled ' California," but without more 

 exact data. I have never had the opportunity of examining so 

 many specimens of this species before, and find that, as in the 

 others of the genus, there is very little variation except in the 

 distinctness of the markings ; well defined in some, almost 

 obsolete in others. The males tun smaller as a whole than the 

 females. While the species has a casual resemblance to messoria 

 in appearance, it is easily distinguished by the wing form and 

 and by the smooth, somewhat glistening vestiture. 



Feltia SUBGOTHICA Harv., August 20; one male only, of 

 the normal type. This species occurs throughout North 

 America. 



Carneades ridingsiana Grote, August 20; three male 

 specimens of the normal type. They agree with each other and 

 with specimens from other localities. This species has been 

 heretofore recorded from Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, 

 and is therefore somewhat of the south-western type. 



Carneades dissona Moeschler, August 20 ; two males. 

 I make this identification with some doubt, but the specimens 

 seem different from tntcnis, and are not ojnpara. The only 

 point in which they fail to agree with typical dissona is, that 

 the woolly clothing of the underside is not blacki.sh. On the 

 other hand, it is darker than in tnunis, and I am inclined to 

 believe that we have to do with a local form of Moeschler's 

 species. It will require further material to make this certain, 

 however. Moeschler's species has been thus far recorded from 

 Labrador only. 



