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lack the white band on the flagellum, but females from elsewhere 

 alwaj^s have it. Large stout specimens from eastern North America 

 seem distinguishable from /. rhomhoidalis only on color. This is 

 more variabihty and complexity than is usual, and it may be that 

 the material is not correctly understood. 



Three females at hand have the coxae and trochanters more or 

 less ferruginous. They may be intermediates to the species /. lauius, 

 off-color specimens of minor, or represent a new species or subspecies. 

 Their data are as follows: 9, Eug Salmon, Naknek Eiver, Alaska, 

 July 19, 1952, W. K. Mason (Ottawa). 9, Thane, Alaska, July 15, 

 1958, W. F. Frohne (Townes). 9, reared from Archips argyro- 

 spilus, Vernon, B. C, August 2, 1923, D. G. Gillespie (Ottawa). 

 These three are not recorded on the distribution map or included in 

 the description of the species. 



Type: 9, Mount Pisgah, 4,800 to 5,300 ft., N.C., June 21, 1940, 

 H. and M. Townes (Washington, USNM 63769). 



Paratj^pes (86 cf, 1019): From Alaska (Juneau, King Salmon on 

 Naknek River, Mount McKinle}^ National Park, Naknek on tundra, 

 and Shaw Creek at Mile 289 on Richardson Highway); Alberta 

 (Banff); Arizona (near Alpine and Greer); British Columbia (Aspen 

 Grove, Cultus Lake, Lorna, Merritt, Prince Rupert, Robson, and 

 StanlejO; California (Mineralking) ; Colorado (Phantom Valley in 

 Rocky Mountain National Park at 9,400 ft.); Georgia (Rabun Bald 

 at 4,700 ft.); Idaho (Hope and Moscow Mt.); Maine (Bar Harbor 

 and Casco); Michigan (Houghton Co., Huron Mts., Leelanau Co., 

 Saulte Ste. Marie, and Wexford Co.); Minnesota (Itasca Park); New 

 Hampshire (Alpine on Mount Washington, Bretton Woods, Halfway 

 House on Mount Washington, Jaffrey, Pinkham Notch, and Randolph) ; 

 New York (Bemus Point, Fish Creek in the Adirondacks, Greene Co., 

 Hancock, The Hook in McLean Reservation, Ithaca, swamp near 

 Oneonta at 1,900 ft., Rock City in Cattaraugus Co., Shde Mt. at 2,800 

 to 4,000 ft., and Trenton Falls); North Carolina (Crabtree Meadows 

 in Yancey Co. at 3,600 ft., Craggy Gardens in Buncombe Co. at 5,300 

 ft., Doughton Park, Hamrick, Highlands at 3,800 ft.. Mount Mitchell 

 at 4,000 to 6,500 ft.. Mount Pisgah at 4,600 and 4,800 to 5,749 ft., 

 Spence Field in Great Smoky jVIountains National Park, and Wayah 

 Bald in Macon Co. at 5,400 ft.) ; Northwest Territories (Norman Wells) ; 

 Nova Scotia (Digby and Englishtown) ; Ontario (Biscotasing, Lake 

 Agnes in Quetico Provincial Park, Miners Bay, Parry Sound, Thun- 

 der Bay Beach, and Waubamick); Pennsylvania (North East and 

 Spring Brook); Quebec (Cherry River, Kazabazua, Knob Lake at 

 54°47' and 66°47', Knowlton, Lac Brule, Laniel, Messines, Parke 

 Reserve in Kamouraska Co. at 950 ft., Quebec, and Sainte-Agathe- 

 des-Monts); Saskatchewan (Waskesiu); Vermont (Laurel Lake near 



