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vein, below which it takes a deep outward curve to vein 3, then almost 

 straight to inner margin. Beyond this line is a reddish band, then the 

 usual wide sinuate bluish band, shaded outwardly with red, the outer 

 margin being clear ashen-gray, with minute dots at end of veins ; fringe 

 light ash, with black line running through it. There are three black dashes 

 on the veins from the apex of the wing, the lower being the longest and 

 touching the extradiscal line. Hind wings light ash, with the usual two 

 pale lines somewhat scalloped on veins, discal dot showing plainly. 

 Beneath, fore wings grayish, with only the extradiscal black bands and 

 discal spots showing ; the same is true of the hind wings. This species 

 runs close to ruberata, Freyer, of Europe, which I have, and also examples 

 from Maine of the same, submitted to Mr. L. B. Prout, of England, who 

 said I had identified the species correctly. Edenata may be a variety of 

 ruberata, but at least not. one of the described ones, although I think it is 

 a distinct species. In the Berliner Ent. Zeit., Vol. 51, 1906, p. 256, 

 Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene discusses the trifasciata-ruberata group 

 and describes several new varieties, showing that it is a somewhat variable 

 species. 



Types, 1 $ , Monterey Co., Colo., from Mr. Grossbeck; 5 $ 's, Eden 

 Vale, Monterey Co., Colo., June, from Mr. Broadwell and Mr. Grossbeck. 



MOSQUITO OBSERVATIONS. 



BY C. S. LUDLOW, PH. D. 

 Laboratory of the Office of the Surgeon-General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. 



Beyond the limits of this article it is not my intention to reply to Dr. 

 Dyar's comments.* 



A few points in his recent article may be referred to : 



(a) The senior author is responsible for what appears under his 

 name, whether he wrote it or not. 



(b) It would probably have simplified matters if it had occurred to me 

 to state definitely that, while the specimens are shipped to me in boxes, the 

 collection has never been kept in them. This would have enabled 

 Dr. Dyar to differentiate between these two conditions, for, as he has 

 never seen my collection, he could necessarily know nothing about them ; 

 moreover, my method of keeping my collection, even were it as "un- 

 fortunate" as Dr. Dyar persistently insinuates, is strictly a personal matter, 

 and lies quite outside Dr. Dyar's province. 



*Mosquito Comment, Can. Ent., March, 1909, p. ior. 



July, 1909 



