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which it becomes faint. Brown spot in cell is usually connected with costa. 

 Inner margin frequently with brown shades. Both lobes with pale outer line, 

 incomplete on second, preceded by a heavy brown shade which blends into 

 buff or grayish toward triangle. This shade on first lobe sometimes paler, 

 showing a heavy brown dash near cleft. Terminal area hoary with whitish 

 scales over brown. Fringes whitish with a row of dark brown basal scales 

 cut with white on outer margin. Inner margin with two slight dark scale 

 teeth. Apex moderate. Secondaries gray-brown with concolorous fringes which 

 have pale bases on inner margin of third feather and there contain scattered 

 brown scales and a variable, but always weak tuft of slender, almost equal 

 brown scales within outer third of feather. Expanse 19-29 mm. 



The male genitalia resemble those of Carolina (see plate L, fig. 

 15). 



Distribution : Mass., N. H. ; Fernald adds Maine and Winn lists 

 it from Que. in July; B. C, Wash., July and August. 



The early stages are unknown. 



Edwardsii was described from two males and three females taken 

 at Boston by Hy. Edwards and five males and one female from Am- 

 herst., Mass., by L. W. Goodell. Of the first five, one male and one 

 female are now in the American Museum, and the remaining three 

 in the Fernald collection. One of these, a male, we have labelled 

 lectotype; the others are a female and a specimen without abdomen. 

 We know nothing of the types from Amherst, though a fragmentary 

 specimen with a type label in the Fernald collection may be one of 

 them. This collection also contains a series of fifteen specimens 

 labelled only "T 6/9" or "T 6/10". One of these is labelled as a type, 

 but the word "type" is crossed out. We have seen several specimens 

 from the Hope Mts. (Day) and Mt. Cheam, B. C. (Blackmore). The 

 one Washington specimen which we include in our series was taken 

 in the third week of July on Mt. Rainier. Its expanse is only 19 mm., 

 seven under the usual minimum, but it seems to be a dwarf of this 

 species without doubt. 



Many of the specimens in the Fernald collection are moderate in 

 size and rather dark. We have felt that these may possibly be con- 

 fused with the following species, and hence selected the large male 

 type as lectotype. There is no reason to believe that the types are 

 not all of the same species, however. 



