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lation common to the eastern race. Notwithstanding the considerable differ- 

 ence in size, 26-31 mm. versus 34-38 mm., no difference in genitalia between 

 the two races could be found. 



Expanse: 34-38 mm. 



A. fragilis fragiloides is not like A. minella Dyar; the type of 

 the latter, in the National Museum, being a dark, suffused, specimen, 

 and probably representing another race of fragilis. 



Type localities and number and sexes of types: Holotype $ Duncans, 

 Vancouver Island, 10 July 1914; Allotype 9, id., 14 June 1911 (the specimen 

 figured, 1913, B. & McD., Contr. N. H. Lep. N. A., II, (1), pi. XIII, f. 9); 

 2 $ Paratypes, id., 10 June, no date; 13 ? Paratypes, 12, 15, 17, 19, 28 (2), 

 June, 3 (2), 5 (3), 7, 10, July; 1 $ Paratype, Quamichan Lake, Vancouver Is- 

 land, 21 May 1910; all collected by Mr. A. W. Hanham except the last men- 

 tioned male. 



Apatela funeralis form fuscalis nov. 



Entirely similar to funeralis, but a melanic form, with the ground color 

 of the primaries heavily suffused with brownish-black, in this respect only, 

 similar to wanda, similana and tonitra. This is a parallel development to form 

 steinerti of the European alni. 



Type locality: New Brighton, Pa., (H. D. Merrick). 



Number and sexes of types: Holotype 9, 9 May 1903; 1 9 Paratype, 28 

 Aug. 1910. 



Catabena pronuba B. & McD. 



1916, B. & McD., Contr. N. H. Lep. N. A., Ill, (1), 10, pi. Ill, f. 11, 



Catabena. 



n^nuscula Dyar. 



1923, Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menst., X, 168, Cucullia. 



The authors are in receipt of a male from the type lot of nanus- 

 ciila donated by Mr. Fred Marloft", which has been compared v^ath the 

 type by Mr. Schaus, and also possess a colored figure of the type. 



A female in the Barnes Collection has the secondaries rather 

 heavily suffused with fuscous. The single types (males) representing 

 both names have pure white secondaries. 



Jemez Springs, N. Mex., is the only known locality. 



The species may best be retained in Catabena. 



