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logue (Vol. XIII, 1913, p. 583) calls it Abrostola. 

 Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, follow Hampson. 



In the Cambridge Museum I found another very in- 

 teresting specimen. In Smith's Catalogue (^w/Z^fm 44) 

 speaking of vaccinii Hy. Edw., he says : "The type 

 is with Dr. Thaxter," but he gives no authority for 

 this statement. In the Edwards Collection, now in 

 the Museum of Natural History in New York, there 

 is a specimen of this species carrying a label in 

 Edwards's handwriting reading "vaccinii. Type 2," 

 This would seem to indicate that he did return the 

 primary type to Mr. Thaxter, In his description 

 Edwards says : (Entomologica Americana, Vol. II, 

 p. 170) "we owe the discovery of this species to Mr. 

 Roland Thaxter who took it on Mt. Washington, N. H. 

 in July, and also raised it from the larva found by 

 him feeding upon a species of vaccinium." 



The Thaxter Collection is in the Cambridge 

 Museum. I did not find any specimen of vaccinii with 

 a type label, but I did find one carrying labels from 

 which I quote the following interesting statements. 



"White Mts. Alpine. 2 Laid eggs Aug. 5th." A 

 larger label reads : "Eggs truncated, spherical, base 

 rounded off, closely beset with vertical narrow ribs, 

 too numerous to calculate, coming to the apex above 

 and below, and regularly and closely wrinkled or 

 bead-like ; dirty, pale greenish yellow, with irregularly 

 scattered black dots, each giving rise to an attenuated 

 streak, all perhaps foreign to it ; Diameter .03 in. 

 Height about .024 in ; Laid about 40, very adhesive, 

 on Aug. 5th. Hatched about Aug. 1.3. When dead, 

 seen to greenish, hairy worm with two pairs of ab- 

 dominal prolegs." The words "seen to", near the end 

 of the above do not fit the context, and are perhaps 

 misread as the writing is very minute. Possibly Mr. 

 Thaxter meant to write "seem to be," or "seen to be." 

 As I found no other specimen of vaccinii among the 

 Thaxter material, I have taken the liberty to attach a 

 manuscript label reading "Probably the primary type. 

 Ottolengui." 



In my monograph of this group (Journal of the 



