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vein is angulated outward, instead of curved regularly outward as in 

 the Labrador example. The Adirondack is very near the Labrador one, 

 though a little browner along the veins. In the Colorado and Pacific 

 specimens, the outer line near the costa is scalloped four or five times. 

 The middle baud of the fore-wings is much darker than the rest of the 

 wing; the inner and outer portions being much paler than in the eastern 

 examples. Expanse of wings of Colorado and Vancouver Island speci- 

 mens, 1.43 inches ; of Labrador and alpine Eastern United States, 1.25 

 inches. 



In the general style of markings, this species closely resemhle&G. popu- 

 lata, as remarked by Moeschler. I do not much doubt but that both 

 have come from a common stock ; luguhrata being perhaps originally 

 derived from a melanotic variety of populata. 



G. testata, Linn. — Bailey's ranch, on South Park road, twenty-five 

 miles from the park ; elevation, 8,000 or 8,500 feet ; Colorado, August 

 29 (T. L. Mead) ; also occurs in Massachusetts (Shurtleff). This does 

 not seem to differ from figures in English works, but still needs to be 

 compared. It occurs in Central and Southern Europe, Ural Mountains, 

 Altai Mountains, and Amur. 



Melanippe hastata (Linn., M. goiliicata, Guen.) — The single individual, 

 taken at the Kenosha House, Colorado, June 30, by Mr. Mead, has larger 

 white bauds and spots than any Alaskan specimen I have seen, and 

 exactly agrees with certain Labrador specimens, and is unlike any I have 

 seen from any other region. 



M. tristata, (Linn.) — Three specimens, Beaver Creek, near Fair Play, 

 South Park, at the border of the surrounding mountains, elevation* 9,000 

 feet, or a little over; and Turkey Creek Junction, Colorado, June 16-25, 

 do not differ from European examples received from Prof. P.-C. Zeller. 

 This is its first occurrence in America. It occurs in Central and South- 

 ern Europe and Turkey, and is reported by Staudinger, with a query, from 

 the Ural Mountains and Amur. 



M. luguhrata (Staudinger), [M. luctuata [S. V.], Cidaria oMuctata, 

 Moeschler, Wiener Eut. Mouatssch ; M. concordata, Walk. (!) ; M.Kodia- 

 Tcata, Pack.) — Turkey Creek Junction, Colorado, June 27 (Mead). Com- 

 pared with an Alaskan example, the Colorado moth is larger, with the 

 white band on the hind-wings three times as wide, thus leaving a narrow, 

 dark margin, and a faint dusky shade at the base of the wing. I had 

 regarded the Alaskan and Maine specimens as quite distinct, and the 

 latter as distinct from the Labrador var. obductata ; but a Pacific-coast 

 specimen, just received Irom Mr. James Behrings, labeled " Kenay" 

 (near Kodiak, Alaska), is intermediate between vars. Kodiakata and ob- 

 ductata. The Pacific-coast individual has the white band on the fore- 

 wings much bent, as in Maine specimens, and the hind-wings almost 

 black, as in Concordata ; the white line being almost obsolete. The Lab- 

 rador individuals are more stunted than the Maine ones, but both have 

 black, hind-wings ; while the Pacific-coast and Colorado examples are 

 much whiter, with broader white bands. The Alaskan moth closely 

 resembles Duponchel's figure. Thus the Pacific and Colorado forms re- 

 semble the European much more than the New England and Labrador 

 examples. It inhabits Central Europe, Lapland, the Ural and Altai 

 Mountains, and Amur. It is reported by Groteas having been collected 

 by Kennicott on the Mackenzie River to Lake Athabasca. 



Coremia lignicolorata^ Pack. — Turkey Creek Junction, Colorado, Au- 

 gust 24 (Mead). These specimens do not differ from Califoruian exam- 

 ples. It is pale-gray as a ground-color, while most of the Califoruian 



