Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
Typical imitata from Vancouver Island and the southern interior of British Columbia is brownish in coloration with at times a slight purplish tinge. There is before me a specimen from Santa Barbara Co., Calif., in which the entire upper surface is definitely tinged with olive-green; this, in combination with a very indistinct type of maculation, gives it a decided mossy appearance. Genitalically it does not differ from the topotypical form. As it probably represents a race from the southern regions of California I give it the above name.
* Contribution from the Division of Entomology (Systematic Entomology), Department of Agriculture, Ottawa.