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A decidedly lutcous subtriaiigular spot extends from the base of the wing to the inner distinct 
line crossing the wing, which line is situated half way between the base of the wing and the inner 
side of the median baud, this line having been rubbed off in the type of tcriijhtiL The space 
between this line and the median baud is whitish gray. The broad blackish median band incloses 
a sinuous linear luteous discal spot, and there is a luteous patch near the internal edge of the 
wing. The inner edge of the median band is less distinctly sinuous than in the type of 
and so is the white outer bordering line, which, however, is more zigzag. The edge of the wing 
is stone-gray, as in the type of wrigliHij and incloses the usual scalloped dark line, as in the type 
of %cn<jhtii. Hind wings as in the typej a dittiise dark band crosses the wing beyond the middle, 
and a second outer one is parallel to it, but does not reach the middle, and the two bands inclose 
a white linear spot, as in the type. 
The species occurs in northern as well as southern California, and is quite variable. 
G, Hevem Edwards. — The single type is a 9 from Soda Springs, Cal. 
The type is much larger than the Sierra Nevada specimen, and well preserved. Anteniife 
with short xiecti nations. Body and head dark gray. Wings unusually darkj fore wings dark 
gray on the basal third, with a very small luteous sjiot on the cubital and internal veins. Median 
band broad and dark, almost black, and not bordered by the narrow scalloped outer line, the 
wing being suffused with black to the outer edge. A narrow faint luteous linear discal spot. 
Halfway between the scalloxied pale gray line and the outer I'dge of the wing is a submarginal 
series of tawny or luteous patches. Hind wings just as in the Sierra Nevada examx>le, and 
venatioTi as in wriglitiL Wings underneath dark and much diffused, the line on the fore wing 
less sinuous than in the wrightii tyx^e. Hind wings with two parallel broad dark bauds, just as in 
the Sierra Nevada specimen of G. wrigktiL The shax>e of the head and the wings is the same in 
the Californian sevem and the eastern form. In both forms the hind wings are nearly tlie same. 
Yar. (ivimacula, — The following is a description of a tyx^e s])ecimeu presented by Mr. Hudson to 
the United States National Museum: Body and fore wings ash-gray, basal line black, with a large 
irregular loox> just below the median vein tilled in with luteous scales. Middle line black, sinuous; 
extradiscal line diffuse, obliqne, and sinuous; no luteous median band, this sx)aee being ash-gray, 
with obscure luteous scales near and on inner edge; an indistinct submarginal series of blackish 
scallox)s: a very distinct, irregular, reniforin black discal sx)ot, filled in with distinct luteous scales, 
so that there are two distinct conspicuous clay-yellow^ sx^ots in this species; hind wings with no 
distinct line and no common line beneath. Expanse of wings, 37 mm.; length of body, 10 mm. 
Plattsburg, N. Y., May 10, 15, 21, 22 ((1. H. Hudson). Professor French has danhyi from 
Victoria and scvera from Shasta County, Cal. 
G. nevera var. slossoniw. — Body and wings x>ale ash-gray ; the prothoracic segment colored as the 
head, but the rest of the thorax is dark browui, the median thoracic tuft also dark brown. Fore 
wings black-browm on basal one- fifth, this portion sending out five shaiq) tooth-like x>fojections 
along the subcostal, internal, and second anal vein^. A broad distinct median oblique band, with 
irregular lobulate edges, and widening on the costa; it incloses a very distinct discal triangular 
wiiite si>ot, the apex x'>ointing outward. A submarginal broken row of dark sjmts arranged much 
as in GliqMsia trilincata. 
Hind wings with no markings, but at the inner angle is a faint short curved dark band, 
edged externally with white, but not reaching beyond the middle of the internal sxjace. Fiinge 
concolorous with the wing, but checkered with small black spots. 
Wings beneath much as in Ghqdtisia trilineata; the black band is faint, its outer edge indicated 
on the costa by a dark .spot. Expanse of wings, 38 mm.; length of body, 15 mm. 
1 am indebted to Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson for the privilege of examining and describing 
a single remarkable sx)ecimen in a x>erfect state of x^'eservation taken at Franconia, N. H. Mrs. 
Slosson, unlike many entomologists, has kindly allow’cd me to x>itrtially denude the under 
side of the w’ings of her unique specimen, so that the venation could be carefully drawn with the 
aid of the camera. She has determined the sx^ecies to be now. The species w'as not to be found in 
the collections of Mr. Graef or Mr. Neumogen,and Jlr. Beutenmiiller had not seen it in the Henry 
Edwards collections, now fortunately in the x>ossession of the American Museum of Natural 
History at Central Park, New York. I had described the form as regarding 
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