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and in which I am rather "hauled over the coals" for having 

 given an erroneous locality. For this reason only he accepted 

 this as a distinct species from H. ncmnoegeni as it was from 

 a ditferent life zone from the latter species, its actual local- 

 ity being Reno, Nevada, a town some thousands of feet 

 lower down the pass. He, however, entirely ignores the fact 

 that I distinctly stated Reno, Nevada, on two subsequent oc- 

 casions (Ent. News XXIII, p. 97, and Ent. News XXIV, p. 

 130,) where I described certain forms of burnsi as having 

 been bred from pupae collected by Mr. Burns at Reno, Neva- 

 da, and which, according to Dr. Dyar's interview with Mr. 

 Burns, appears to be its correct locality. 



Well, first I have yet to learn that an insect's title to rank 

 as a separate species depends on its vertical distribution and. 

 secondly, I, myself, am totally unacquainted with the dis- 

 trict and gave the localities as T received them from Mr. 

 Burns. But apart from this, this insect is not ncmnoegeni, 

 and I am not quite so surprised at Dr. Dyar's not identifying 

 it correctlv, for he states the specimen figured in Packard, 

 Mon. of the Bomb. Moths of N. A., Vol. IIL PI. LX. fig. 7. 

 to be a male, whereas it is a female, as can be distinguished 

 by its black and white banded body. The male of burnsi is 

 described and figured by myself as well as ab. ilmae as having 

 an all cream body, and the question is whether Dr. Dyar had 

 seen a male. I am quite aware that, apart from my own col- 

 lection, there were very few specimens of this insect in the 

 U. S. A. collections ; just as on this side of the Atlantic there 

 are very few ncuuioegcni. To my knowledge at the time of 

 describing burnsi, both this insect and neumoegeni were en- 

 tirely wanting in all European collections that I am acquaint- 

 ed with : Berlin, Leiden, Paris. Mons. Chas. Oberthur's Coll. 

 at Rennes, the British Museum, Rothschild's collection at 

 Tring and the Oxford and Manchester Museums among the 

 larger ones. Since burnsi has been described, however, I 

 have examined the only four specimens of neumoegeni in Eu- 

 rope that are known to me : these are the four male speci- 

 mens in the Oxford Museum, taken at Prescott, Arizona, by 

 Dr. Kunze, June, 1910, and of w^hich I was very kindly al- 



