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narrow, faint, outwardly curved grayish-fuscous shade; along costa 

 and around termen a series of small black spots ; cilia whitish gray ir- 

 rorated with grayish fuscous. Hind wing whitish gray basally, gray- 

 ish fuscous apically; cilia whitish gray with a grayish-fuscous 

 subbasal band. Legs whitish gray overlaid and suffused with grayish 

 fuscous except at joints. Abdomen whitish gray suffused with gray- 

 ish fuscous above and with a poorly defined row of black spots on 

 each side beneath. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe rather heavily sclerotized except for the 

 cucullus and a small area about the middle; cucullus and the sclero- 

 tized costal area moderately clothed with fine hairs (the cucullus of 

 one male is considerably rounded while those of four other males are 

 somewhat pointed) ; clasper strongly sclerotized; the free transverse 

 arm originating about the middle of the harpe; longitudinal arm 

 short, sharply pointed ; sacculus heavily sclerotized. Anellus a narrow 

 concave plate forming a trough on which the aedeagus articulates; 

 lateral lobes weak. Vinculum rounded. Aedeagus stout, slightly 

 curved, very much compressed, rather broad dorsoventrally, constricted 

 at about the middle; dorsal edge heavily sclerotized; vesica armed 

 with a patch of very small cornuti. Transtilla a narrow sclerotized 

 band with well-developed lateral lobes. Gnathos an oval spined knob, 

 Socii fleshy lobes clothed with fine hairs. Apex of tegumen bluntly 

 pointed ; ventral edges with rather well developed outgrowths. Abdo- 

 men of male heavily sclerotized. 



Female genitalia. — Genital plate broad with the small romid ostium 

 situated at the extreme anterior edge. Ductus bursae short, membra- 

 nous, stout, tapering into the large asymmetrical bursa copulatrix; 

 signum an elongate sclerotized plate with small thornlike projections 

 covering the surface. 



Alar expanse, 15-19 mm. 



Tyjye. — In the British Museum. 



Type locality. — Field, British Columbia, Canada. 



Distribution. — Canada and northeastern United States. 



United States records 



New Hampshire: Jefferson, 2 $ $ (30-III-36, 21-X-1936, A. E. Brower). 

 New York: Oswegatchie, 5, 2 $ $ (31-III-33, A. B. Klots). 



Canadian records 



Alberta: Edmonton, 2 S $, 2 ? 5 (IV-10-21, K. Bowman) ; 3 9 ? (IV-ij to 

 13-24, Owen Bryant) ; Red Deer, 7 5 5,1? (VI-1 to 16-23, K. Bowman). 



Manitoba: Aweme, 1 5,5 5? (XI-9-05), $ (III-31-04), ? (IX-29-20), $, ? 

 (X-16-20), all collected by N. Griddle; Cartwright, $ (XI-23-05, E. F. 

 Heath) ; Winnipeg, $ (no date, A. W. Hanham). 



Ontario: Ottawa, $ ( X-1 7-07, C. H. Young). 



Quebec: Chelsea, 5 (IV-21-23, J. McDunnough). 

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