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denominating it "alias," it having passed under an assumed 

 name as it were. 



There is little doubt that "alias" is what Edwards had in 

 mind when comparing his new species with u-aurcum. 



Prof. J. B. Smith tells us (Bulletin 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 

 255) that the type of vaccinii is with Mr. Thaxter. This I 

 believe is true, that type being at present at Cambridge, if I 

 am not mistaken. But there is also a type in the Edwards 

 collection, labeled correctly Mt. Washington. 



Sir George Hampson lists this (Cat. Lep., vol. XIII, pp. 

 424-5) as Syngrapha u-aurcum, giving vaccinii as a synonym. 



I do not wish to discuss the validity of this synonymy at 

 the present time further than to state that u-aureum was de- 

 scribed from Dalecarlia, a Swedish locality. 



Hampson gives the distribution as follows : Canada Nova 

 Scotia. U. S. A. New Hampshire, Mount Washington ; New 

 York, Adirondack Mts. Alpine, Grote. 



Prof. Smith in his Bulletin says : Mt. Washington, Adiron- 

 dack Mts., Nova Scotia. 



Dyar in his catalog says : North Atlantic States. 



It is my own opinion that vaccinii has never been taken else- 

 where than above timber line on Mt. Washington or some 

 other contiguous range. Personally I have collected on Mt. 

 Washington and in the adjacent valleys at least during four 

 seasons. I have always been able to take vaccinii at proper 

 season above timber line. I have captured other Autographas 

 on the summit, but never a vaccinii below it. Mrs. Annie T. 

 Slosson, who, perhaps, has collected in this region more thor- 

 oughly and more constantly than any other collector, tells me 

 that her experience has been similar. 



Whence then the statements that vaccinii has occurre'd in 

 Nova Scotia and in the Adirondack's? I have spent fifteen 

 summers in the Adirondack's and never saw a vaccinii there. 



I believe that we have here a case of false identification. 

 For example, only recently I examined the specimens in the 

 American Museum Collection in New York, mainly the Ed- 

 wards collection. Under vaccinii I found four specimens, the 



