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Va,; Sept. 20 at Montreal, Quebec; Sept. 23 at Wakefield, Conn.; 

 and Oct. 7 and 10 at Arlington, Va. Other biological notes with 

 these specimens state that a female was taken on flowers of Geranium 

 maculatum; that six different collections were made in woods; that 

 three collections (IcT, 29) were made on tree trunks; that a female 

 was reared from Carya wood at Syracuse, N. Y., July 6, 1918, by 

 Blackman and Stage; and that a female was reared from Celtis wood 

 at Plummers Island, Md., Apr. 25, 1908, by W. S. Fisher. 



This is a common woodland subspecies of the Alleghenian and 

 Carolinian faunas. It nests in dead wood, the females being com- 

 monly seen on stumps and dead tree trunks. Adults are on the wing 

 from late spring to early fall. 



7b. Dipogon {Deuteragenia) sayi nigrior, new subspecies 



Plate 2, figure 28 



Male: Unknown. 



Female: Fuscous bands on forewing broader and more diffuse than 

 in the subspecies sayi, the basal transverse band broadened at its 

 hind end and occupying about 0.6 of the first brachial cell, the apical 

 band occupying about 0.85 of the second discoidal cell. 



Figure 69. — Localities for Dipogon sayi nigrior. 



Type: 9, Pamelia Lake, Mount Jefferson at about 3,000 ft., Oreg., 

 July 19, 1907 (Washington, USNM 61693). 



Paratypes: 9, Agassiz, British Columbia, June 22, 1915, R. C. 

 Treherne (Ottawa). 9, Agassiz, British Columbia, July 6, 1927, 

 H. H. Ross (Ottawa). 9, Okanagan, British Columbia, August 

 (Ottawa). 9, Steelhead, British Columbia, July 14, 1933, H. B. 

 Leach (Ottawa). 9, Fish Camp, Calif., July 22, 1948, Townes 

 family (Townes). 9, Snowline Camp, El Dorado County, Calif., 

 July 7, 1948, C. D. MacNeil (Berkeley). 9, Sugar Pine, 4,300 to 



