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Two of the cotypes, a S and a 9 , are in the Barnes collection. 

 These are North Carolina specimens taken in May and June in the 

 Black Mountains, and are the lightest and brightest of our series. 

 Four from New Jersey, taken in June, August and September, differ 

 in the stronger brown markings. The Utah specimens were taken in 

 July and August, and are rather dull and evenly colored, and the 

 one Californian example, from Carmel, June, is similar. We regarded 

 the western specimens as a distinct species for a time, and separated 

 them by the even color and moderate apex of the primaries. In the 

 New Jersey specimens the apex is sharply produced and the outer 

 margin of the first lobe deeply concave, but we note that there is some 

 variation, and that one of the cotypes has the apex nearly the same 

 as the western series. 



The remainder of Kearfott's series is in the American Museum. 



Some specimens are almost as dull as albiciliata Wlsm. but differ 

 in possessing scale teeth on the inner margin of the primaries and in 

 a few minor points. The uncus is more pointed in Carolina and 

 broadly spatulate in albiciliata. In slides of the former it is sometimes 

 flattened so that the tip is somewhat spatulate, but it does not show 

 this form in situ. 



11. Platvptilia edwardsii Fish. PI. XLIV. fig. 1. 

 Platyftilus edwardsii Fisli, Can. Ent. XIII, 72, 1881. 

 Platyptilia edwardsii Fernald. Smith's List Lep. N. A. 87, 1891. 



Id., Pter. N. A. 25, pi. VII, ff. 6, 7, 1898. 



Id., Bull. 52 U. S. N. M. 443, 1902. 



Meyrick, Gen. Ins. C, 10, 1910. 



Winn, List Ins. Que. 85, 1912. 



Meyrick, Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 11, 1913. 



Grossbeck, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXXVII, 135, 1917. 

 ^Platyptilis edwardsii Beutenmueller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IV, 198, 1892. 

 tPlatyptilia edwardsi Barnes & McDunnough, Check List ISO, 1917. 



Head brownish with a mixture of whitish scales; thorax somewhat hoary, 

 whitish behind ; abdomen apparently with a dark mixture of gray-brown and 

 ochreous scales, beneath with converging whitish dashes. Antennae sometimes 

 dotted above. Palpi moderate, oblique, scarcely exceeding the short, conical 

 frontal tuft. Fore and mid tibiae whitish with dark brown stripes, tarsi and 

 hind legs with dark shades. 



Primaries buff, freo.uently tinged with brown and lioary with wliitish 

 scales, the buff appearing only in the pale markings and along the inner margin. 

 The usual dark triangle, blackish brown, contains a heavy transverse dash, 

 scarcely visible, before cleft. Brown shade continued along costa to base, toward 



