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Calocampa. 1903, Spuler, Schmett, Europ, I, 262, pi. XLVII, f. IS (adult), pi. 

 XXXII, ff. 22a (larva), 22b (pupa), Calocampa. 1906, Hamp., Cat. Lep. Phal. 

 B. M., VI, 240, Cloantha. 1909, Pierce, Genitalia Noct., p. 72, pi. XXVI, Calo- 

 campa. 



LiTHOMOIA SOLIDAGINIS GERMANA, Morr, 



1874, Morr., Bull. BuflF. Soc. Nat. Sci., II, 192, Calocampa. 1874, Grt., 

 Bull. BuflF. Soc. Nat. Sci., II, 198, Lithomia. 1878, Graef, Bull. B'klyn Ent. Soc. 

 I, 10, solidaginis. 1883, Grt., Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, XXI, 150, 160, solidaginisf, 

 Lithomia. 1890, Grt., Revised Check List, p. 29, "an solidaginis?", Lithomia. 

 1893, Sm., Bull. U. S. N. M., XLIV, 235, an sp dist.?, Lithomoia. 1895, Grt., 

 Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, XIV, 97, "an solidaginis?", Lithomia. 1902, Dyar, Bull. 

 U. S. N. M., LII, 169, #2077, Lithomoia. 1903, Holl., Moth Book, p. 206, pi. 

 XXV, f. 12, Lithomoia. 1906, Hamp., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., VI, 240, solidaginis, 

 Cloantha. 1917, B. & McD., Check List, p. 58, #2129, solidaginis, Lithomoia. 



SOLIDAGINIS, Auct. nec Hbn. 



1857, Wlk., C. B. M. Lep. Het., XI, 759, Lithomia. 1874, Grt., Bull. Buff. 

 Soc. Nat. Sci., 11, 27, Calocampa. 



Only that part of the bibliography which may be of interest to 

 the American worker is quoted. 



The names solidaginis, Hbn., and germana, Morr,, have been a 

 Constance source of dispute among Lepidopterists since 1874. The 

 former was described by Hubner from European specimens, while 

 Mr. Morrison's type of germana came from the Adirondack Mountains 

 of New York. Specimens from Ottawa, Ontario, would, therefore, 

 probably represent the same race as the type of germana. In these 

 the primaries are brighter and the markings, especially the t. a. line, 

 much cleaner-cut than in the European solidaginis. The secondaries 

 of both are pale, suffused with fuscous on veins, discal spot, and 

 toward the outer margin. 



British Columbia supplies a somewhat different race, with the 

 primaries nearly as in the Ottawa specimens altho there is a ten- 

 dency for the medial band to be somewhat heavier; but the secon- 

 daries are deep fuscous. 



Alaska supplies a race closely allied to the British Columbia race 

 by the generally fuscous secondaries, but the primaries are also con- 

 siderably darker, with the markings nearly as in the European speci- 

 mens. 



Genitalically the American specimens all agree in the shape of 

 the uncus, which is narrower than in the European specimens. There 



