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Toppenish, Wash., Apr. 14, 1956 (A. I. Good); one male (genitalia on 

 slide 391-Orb.), Spring Creek, 4000 ft., near Baker, Baker County, 

 Ore., May 7, 1953 (J. H. Baker) ; one female (genitalia on slide 561-Obr.), 

 San Mateo, Calif., Mar. 6, 1942 (G. E. Pollard) ; one female (genitalia on 

 slide 562-Obr.), Sierra Nevada, Calif.; one female (genitalia on slide 

 558-Obr.), Fort Collins, Colo., Aug. 12, 1898 (Kearfott Collection); 

 one female (genitalia on slide 553-Obr.), Salida, Colo., Apr. 7, 1888 

 (Hulst Collection); all in AMNH. Three females (genitalia of two of 

 them on slides: one prepared by A. Busck, Nov. 14, 1924; the other, 

 no. 1-Obr., Nov. 2, 1959), Salida, Colo., Apr. 7, 1888, and Apr. 4 and 

 6, 1889 (W. S. Foster; Fernald Collection); one male (genitaha on 

 shde, prepared by A. Busck, Nov. 13, 1924), no data (Fernald Col- 

 lection); one female (genitaha on slide 2-Obr., Nov. 2, 1959), Jemez 

 Springs, N. Mex., Apr. 8, 1915; the five specimens in USNM. 



Remarks. — This is the species which the late A. Busck was inchned 

 to identify with Teras ferruginiguUana Fernald (cf. McDunnough, 

 1934, p. 294). At the tune when Busck wrote McDunnough about 

 his conception of Jerruginiguttana, the unique female type of this 

 species was already nonexistent and was represented only by some few 

 fragments useless for any diagnostic purpose. In this poor condition 

 this type is now deposited at the United States National Museum, and 

 the present author can describe it as a small portion of thorax with 

 one of the hind legs and basal part of a hind wing. The only informa- 

 tion upon the type oi ferruginiguttana is in tlie original description of 

 this species (Fernald, 1882, p. 65). This description gives some 

 reasons to suppose in ferruginiguttana a species related to maximana 

 and nigroUnea, but it is also quite possible iha^t ferruginiguttana might 

 belong to some other group. None of the specimens, identified by 

 Busck asferrugindguttana and deposited at the U.S. National Museum, 

 correspond completely to the original description of this species which 

 should have in the forewings "a tuft on the fold near the base of the 

 wing, an elongated streak through the oblique stripe on the cell, and 

 a spot between this and the outer border, bright rust-red." Busck 

 himself was probably not quite convinced of his conception of fer- 

 ruginiguttana, and there is in the above collection only one female 

 specimen from Colorado with Busck's authentic label on the pin, 

 reading "P. ferrugijiiguttana Fern." Some other specimens have this 

 name on the genitalia slides only, and it is always written by Busck 

 in pencil and usually accompanied by a question mark. Moreover, 

 ferruginiguttana appears on these slides as a second name, the first one, 

 written in India ink, being "Peronea maximana." In his unpublished 

 manuscript notes of October 1919, Busck wrote: "7438. P. ferrugini- 

 guttana Fernald. Colorad[o]. 28 mm. Our largest described species. 



