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lowed to add one to my collection. I do not know the female 

 except from specimens figured in Packard's Vol. Ill, but the 

 four specimens examined, as well as all the photographs of 

 specimens of neumocgcni, can be distinguished from burnsi 

 invariably by the body color, by the color of the antennae and 

 by the dead white texture of the wings of neumoegcni, which 

 Dr. Barnes calls attention to in Packard's Vol. Ill, and which 

 Dr. Dyar remarks upon. My own series of burnsi, including 

 the ab. ihnae and other forms amounts to 133 specimens, of 

 which 45 are males ; now it appears these are all from Reno 

 instead of some from the Truckee Pass, as given to me by Mr. 

 Burns. (Mr. Burns, like many other field workers, is cer- 

 tainly not one of the best caligraphists, and, as a matter of 

 fact, nearly all of his most interesting letters to me are writ- 

 ten in pencil.) 



There is not one of these specimens which cannot be dis- 

 tinguished from the four specimens of neumocgcni, which I 



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have examined, and the splendid photographs of the type 

 specimen and other specimens figured in Packard, by two or 

 three characters which are palpable : a small lozenge-shaped 

 transparent spot (not found in burnsi} in the cell of the fore- 

 wing in neumoegeni; the light orange brown antennae in both 

 sexes of neumoegeni compared with the black brown of burn- 

 si; the cream body of burnsi males and the orange brown 

 body of neumoegcni; and another character which can be read- 

 ily noticed is that on the forewing, the submarginal wavy 

 band ends on the costa with a slight curve towards the apex 

 in neumoegcni; this is constant in the single specimen which 

 I have and in all the photographs of this insect, in either 

 sex, figured in Packard, but which is not so in any specimen 

 of burnsi, which I possess or have seen (compare Packard, 

 Plate LXIII, figs. 5, 6 and 7, and plate LXVII, figs, i and 



2). 



I have in preparation some additional notes on Packard's 

 Vol. ITT and T am stating there that the food plant of //. 

 burnsi is sagebush, as Mr. Burns stated in a letter to me 

 about two or three years ago. Apart from the fact that Dr. 

 Dyar calls attention to this erroneous locality, I think that 



