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crossed by a series of sharply curved, parallel, black lines. In scripta 

 four distinct lines are present, while in derasa and rectangulata the inner- 

 most line is entirely absent or very faintly suggested. 



Types. — Two males and two females. Collection of the author. 



This species, which I have at length decided to be distinct, was 

 taken by me during my first year of collecting, and during the 

 Spring and Autumn of each succeeding year. For a time I had 

 my Brooklyn specimens labeled T. scripta, but when I visited 

 White Mountains and took the genuine scripta in that region, I 

 at once suspected that the Brooklyn form was at least a local 

 race. The late Mr. Neumoegen suggested to me that, being 

 double brooded, the broods might vary, but I disproved this by 

 showing him living specimens in May, and in the following August, 

 both being taken in Brooklyn, and exactly alike. At various 

 times I have had about eighty specimens taken in Brooklyn, and 

 the characters differing from the other species have been uniformly 

 present in them all. I have also seen the same form taken by 

 Mrs. Herring, in Plainfield, N. J., while specimens from the 

 Catskills, the Adirondacks and the White Mountains, as well as 

 from Canada, have all been typical scripta. I say "typical" 

 scripta, because though Gosse's description is really no descrij:)- 

 tion at all, his figure is very distinctly the same insect as that taken 

 in the high altitudes and in the North. In Bulletin 44, U. S. 

 National Museum, Prof Smith says : " In the Edwards collection 

 there is an Alaskan specimen, and in the British Museum one 

 from Hudson Bay territory, which indicate a new species. They 

 are much darker in color, and in the course of the t. a. line agree 

 with derasa rather than with scripta.'' This statement is puz- 

 zling. I cannot find any Alaskan specimen in the Edwards col- 

 lection, nor was such a specimen known to the present curator, 

 Mr. Beutenmiiller. Aside from the typical scripta, I found a 

 specimen of what I now call rectangulata, but that was presented 

 to Mr. Edwards by me, and was taken in Brooklyn. Whether 

 an Alaska label was temporarily upon the pin when Prof Smith 

 saw it I cannot tell, but even in that case, though rectangiilata is 

 " much darker in color," it by no means approaches derasa in 

 the course of the t. a. line. Then the British Museum specimen 

 adds to the mystery, for I should not look for rectangulata so far 

 North, though of course it may occur there, if as I suspect, it is 

 ^ true species, and not merely a local race of scripta. 



