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black-brown, much darker than usual. Fore wings broader than usual, 

 with the costa a little more convex than usual, ashen, mottled thickly with 

 dull, dark scales, which are arranged in three dark, dull, obscure, diffuse, 

 broad bands, of which the outer two unite just below the median vein to 

 form a broad patch. These lines are zigzag and scalloped on the outer 

 edges, and margined with whitish points. A parallel row of irregular, golden 



scales, especially visible on the outer third of the wing, and also on the 

 inner edge along its whole length. A scalloped, submarginal, white line. 

 Edge of the wing dark; fringe uniformly dark. Hind wings with a distinct 

 discal dot; clear in the middle, but, toward the outer edge, becoming mottled 

 with dark, with a broad, zigzag, submarginal line. Abdomen dark, ringed 

 with whitish. Beneath pale whitish cinereous; the lines obscurely repeated, 

 especially marked on the costa, which is finely dusted with yellowish; abdo- 

 men paler beneath. Legs pale; fore legs dark, narrowly annulated with 

 white. Discal dots faint on both wings. 



Length of body, 0.52; of tore wing, 0.70; expanse of wings, 1.50 inches. 



This is the largest native species of the genus, and differs in its short, 

 dark palpi, triangular fore wings, which are olive-gray, dusted with bright 

 golden scales on the outer third and on the inner margin, and very faintly on 

 the outer edge of the secondaries. 



It is an obscurely marked species, but the plan of the markings is 

 much as in G. poluta. The submarginal scalloped line is well marked, the 

 scallops deep and rounded. The double-scalloped, light, extradiscal line is 

 bent outward below the costa. There are dark and whitish specks and dots 

 on the veins. 



Okak, Northern Labrador, and Caribou Island, Southern Labrador 

 (Packard). It also occurs not uncommonly at the White Mountains, where it 

 was captured by Mr. C. A. ShurtlefF, August 1-11, in Tuckerman's Ravine, 

 specimens of which are in the collections of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. Mr. F. <!. Sanborn has also obtained it from Mount Washington, 

 New Hampshire. Massachusetts (Morrison). Georgetown and Turkey Creek 

 station, ( !olorado (Mead). 



Specimens taken by Mr. T. L. Mead in the vicinity of Georgetown, Colo, 

 at an elevation of 8,000 or !),00() feet, expand from 1.45 to 1.55 inches. The 

 markings are just as in Labrador and White Mountains (New Hampshire) 

 specimens, though with perhaps more golden scales. The Labrador speci- 



