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Primaries white to pale brownish tawny, usually white tinged with tawny 

 or brownish. Cleft preceded by a brownish black spot which usually slightly 

 embraces it. The first lobe usually has a blackish dot at apex, one before 

 apex on inner margin and two on costa, and the second similar dots or rather 

 elongate dashes on tips of veins. All of these may be rather faint, and some 

 are frequently lacking. There is a light brown to smoky brownish gray shade 

 from base of wing into first lobe, sometimes faint. In part of a series of small 

 specimens in coll. Barnes this shade is evident only in the lobe and appear to 

 curve outward from the costal extremity of the discal spot. In some specimens 

 there are a basal dash, spot near middle of cell, and a subcostal dash near base, 

 the dashes somewhat broken. Fringes and secondaries almost concolorous to 

 distinctly darker and more grayish. Expanse 14 to 29 mm. 



Distribution: Florida north into Canada and west to Utah. Way 

 to Aug. 



One male and one female type in the Fernald collection are larger 

 and darker than our series of kellicottii, but both appear to be the 

 same species. The female looks much like a small specimen of bal- 

 aiiotes, so we have labelled the male lectotype. It appears to be much 

 more nearly average. The genitalia also resemble those of balaiioles 

 (see pi. I-IV, fig. 5) but nr- much smaller. The specimen which Mey- 

 rick compared with the type of chlorias for us is one of a series from 

 Utah which is rather duller and more grayish-brown than normal 

 kellicottii. Meyrick's types are from Colo, and our equivalent speci- 

 mens from Utah. 



The limitation of kellicottii has proven one of our greatest puzzles 

 in this genus. The very small Florida specimens with a pronounced 

 shade in the first lobe at first seemed to be distinct, but they grade 

 into nearly normal individuals in the same locality. Another strange 

 form was foimd in a series from Cohasset, Mass., in the National 

 Museum. These specimens were also very small and rather evenly 

 grayish. The genitalia of all the forms, however, do not differ more 

 than is to be expected in any species of Oidaematoplwnis. and we 

 are utterly at loss to find tenable specific characters for their sepa- 

 ration in markings and superficial structure. For the present, there- 

 fore, we feel justified in regarding this limitation and synonymy as 

 correct for the species. 



We have no copy of Kellicott's paper on the life history, but his 

 account is quoted by Fernald, from whose monograph we reproduce 

 it. The food plant is given as Solidago. A specimen in the National 

 Museum is labelled "larva boring in Artemisia baccharis." This plant 

 is not listed in Grav's Manual. 



