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russet; beyond, a broad, pale, zigzag band, with luteous scales on the veins, 

 especially on the costa, and on the internal vein the band is broadly indented 

 on the inner side in the median space; beyond, a broad, russet, dark-brown 

 band of unusual width, blackish on each side, its inner edge sinuate, dentate, 

 its outer with three large, mesial, triangular teeth, thence going nearly straight 

 to the costa, with a broad, abruptly acute, mesial tooth ; a dark, indistinct, 

 discal dot; on the costa are luteous scales, as also a diffuse luteous area below 

 the first median vein, with dark ringlets; a subniarginal row of acutely 

 triangular white spots enclosing linear, lunate, brown spots, which become 

 acutely triangular toward the costa; from the third spot from the costa pro- 

 ceeds a once-angulated line to the apex, below which the margin is unusually 

 dark ; fringe with ochreous scales externally, and two rows of dark, acutely 

 zigzag lines, bordered externally with white; fringe dark-brown; beneath, 

 the discal dots very distinct; costa ochreous; an outer dark line, which 

 becomes obsolete toward the inner edge ; an apical dark patch. Hind wings 

 dusted thickly with brown scales; veiulets ochreous; fringe dusky, spotted 

 with brown, and a brown spot on the inner edge between the end of the 

 fringe and line. 



Length of body, 0.44; of fore wing, 0.60-0.70; expanse of wings, 1.30- 

 1.50 inches. 



Labrador (Packard); summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 

 August 6 (Sanborn, Scudder, Morrison) ; Grand Gulf, Mount Washington, 

 New Hampshire, August 25 (Shurtleff) ; Mount Madison, New Hampshire, 

 September 1 (Scudder). 



Var. nubilata Pack. — Mountains of Colorado, July 19, September 8 

 (Lieutenant Carpenter); Denver City, Col., June 1 (T. L. Mead): Colorado 

 (Ridings) ; American Fork Canon, Utah, about 8,000 feet elevation, among 

 firs on sides of a mountain, July 22 (Packard, Hayden's U. S. Survey) ; Cali- 

 fornia (H. Edwards); California, October 21 (Mead); San Francisco, Cal. 

 (Crotch, Mus. Comp. Zool.) ; Victoria, Vancouver Island, July (Crotch, Mus. 

 Comp. Zool.). 



The unusual brown specks beneath on the hind wings, and brown spots 

 on the inner angle of the hind wings, and the brown, ochreous, rusty wings, 

 besides the row of triangles of white, enclosing lunules and triangles of brown, 

 will readily distinguish it. It, docs not differ from European specimens. 



