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Xo
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PRESS OF C. STOCKHAUSEN PHILADELPHIA
LIST OK PAPERS.
V JN (E. T., Jr.).
Some North American Diptera from the Southwest
(Plate I) 99
The North American Species of the Dipterous Family
Scenopinidaj (Plate II) 109
DiETz (Wm. G., M.D.).
The North American Species of the Genus Ornix Tr.
(Plate IV) 287
Fall (H. C), and Cockerell (T. D. A.).
The Coleoptera of New Mexico ..... 145
Grossbeck (John A.).
Notes on certain described species of Geometridse, with
descriptions of a few new species . . . 335
Haseman (Leonard).
A Monograph of the North American Psychodidre, including ten new species and an Aquatic Psy- chodid from Florida (Plates V-VIII) . . 299
Jones (Paul R.).
A Preliminary List of the Asilidse of Nebraska, with
descriptions of New Species ..... 273
Kearfott (W. D.).
New North American Tortricidae .... 1
Smith (Harry Scott).
Contributions toward a Monograph of the Ceratinidse
of North and Middle America (Plate III) . .115
Smith (John B., Sc.D.).
New Species of Noctuidse for 1907. No. 1 . . . 125 Notes on the Species of Amathes Hbn, (Plates IX-X) 345 Revision of the Species of Pleonectyptera Grt. (Plate
XI) 368
Viereck (Henry L.).
Notes and Descriptions of Hymen op tera from the West- ern United States (Plates XII-XIII) . . 381
INDEX.
The names of new genera and of new species are followed by the name of the
Author.
PAGE
Acalles indigens Fall 268
Acontia cacola Smith 141
Acronycta elisabeta Smith 125
Acnria insecta 101
.Ethyctera 341
Agrilus townsendi Fall 234
Aleptina leuteomedia Smith 136
Alpha cruciferorum Vierech 388
enigmatus Viereck 389
glohulosiformis Viereck 386
marginilineatus Viereck 381
Amathes 345
acta 352, 356
aggressa 352, 358
americana 346
antapica 352, 357
bicolorago 352, 353
decipiens 346, 352, 356
duscata 352, 360
euroa 352, 359
fornica 352, 358
immaculata 346
inops 346, 352
purpurea 346, 352, 357
puta 346
ralla 346, 352, 360
straminea 352, 357
verberata 352
Amphizoidse 162
Anametis subfusca Fall 261
Ancylis intermediana Kearfott 56
Ania brehmeata Grossbeck 343
Auothyreus viciniformis Viereck ■■ .381
AnthicidfE 207
Anthribidfe 218
Aphodius ahusus Fall 242
crassuloides Fall 243
dialytoides Fall 247
longitarsis Fall 246
moquinus Fall 242
neotomse Fall • • 243
plutouicus Fall 245
Aphodius rotundiceps Fall 244
umbricollis Fall 245
Aphricus Inteipennis Fall 232
Aquatic Psychodid 324
Archips brauniana Kearfott 69
Asilidae, new species 273
Asilua annulatus 286
flavipes 286
novpescotise 286
Athous agriotoides Fall 230
discors Fall 230
jejuuus Fall 231
nugalis Fall 228
palpalis Fall 229
quadricollis Fall 229
recticollis Fall 228
rufotestaceus Fall 231
speculifer Fall 229
Atomosia glabrata 281
soror 281
Attelabidse 211
Dostrychidse .185
Bruchidae 200
Buprestidse 179
Byrrhidse 176
Byrsopidse 211
Calandridae 216
Carabidse 156
Carebara brevicoUis Fall 253
californica Fall ... .254
Carposina conionana Kearfott 87
Cebrio compositus Fall 233
Cenopis chanibersana Kearfott 93
karacana Kearfott 68
saracana Kearfott 68
Ceramby cidse 191
Ceratiuidse, Monograph of 115
Ceratina 116
abdominalis Smith. .117, 119, 122
acantha 117, 119, 121
amabilis 118
arizonensis 116
INDEX.
PAGE
Ceratina atrata Slmif.h 116, 118, 120
auriviridis Smith 118, 122
azteca 117
bakeri Smith 116, 120
capitosa 118, 119
cohaltina 117
cyaniventris 119
diodonta Smith 116, 118. 121
dupla 117, 118
eximia 118
gigantea Smith 119, 123
igiiara 119
Iffita 119
lunata Smith 116, 118, 119
metal lica Smith 117, 121
niexicana 117, 118
nanula 117, 118
nautlana 119
iieoniexicana 117, 118
paeifica Smith 118, 122
placida 118
punctulata 118
riifipes 117
strenua 117
tejonensis 117
townsendi 119
Cerotainia atrata Jones 280
Ceutorhynchus notatulus Fall 269
solitariiis Fall 269
tescorum Fall 270
Clifetocnenia costata Fall 252
Chi ysobotliris con vexa Fall 233
Chrysomelidje 194
Chytolita fulicolis Smith 143
Cicindelidse 154
Ciidfe 185
Cimbocera conspersa Fall 261
Cistelidffi 205
Cleora formosata 342
Cleridte 183
Clerus corallinus Fall 240
Coccinellidai 169
Coleo])tera of New Mexico 145
ColydiidfE 172
Coniniopliila huachucana Kearfott- ■ .78
Coiiotiaclielus invadeiis Fall 268
Cophura cristata 280
Crabro caiiouicola Viereck 402
PAGE
Crabro cinctibellus Vierech 401
papagoruni Viereck 401
viciiiiformis Viereck 381
Cryptophagidre 172
Ciiciijidaj • • • -172
CurculionidsB 212
Cydia colorana Kearfott 93
cupres.saiia Kearfott 54
inquilina Kearfott 55
piperana Kearfott 55
Cymatopboia sericeata 341
Cyphomimus ochreus Fall 264
Cyrtopogon plaiisor 277
Dascyllidse 177
Dasyllus astnr 282
fernaldi 282
sacrator 282
Dasymutilla apachea Viereck 386
Desmestidffi 172
Deromyia angustipennis 280
platyptera 280
Dicbelonycba 248
mormon Fall 249
testaceipennis Fall 248
Dioctria rufipes Jones 276
Diptera, North American 99, 115
Doryctes apacheus Viereck 383
femur-nibrum Viereck 384
Doryctomorpba sliosbonea Viereck .382
Dysticidffi 162
Echthodopa pubera • -276
Elateridse 177
Elmis addendus Fall 226
antennatus Fall 227'
pecosensis Fall 226
Eiiarmonia angleseana Kearfott • • • -64
daiia Kearfott 65
dandana Kearfott 65
dyaraiia Kearfott 58
edwardsiana Kearfott 58
fana Kearfott 64
garacana Kearfott 66
lana Kearfott 59
placerana Kearfott 60
sandersana Kearfott 63
tana Kearfott 62
vana Kearfott 62
vancouversana Kearfott 63
INDEX.
PAGE
Enarmonia walsinghami Kenrfott. ■ .57
wana Kearfott. 60
EndoTnychidae 171
Ensina hnmilis 101
Eois pallida 341
volucrata 341
Epicauta ingrata Fall 258
ruidosana Fall 258
Epimechus uanulus Fall 267
stragulus i^a« ..267
Epinotia dietziana Kearfott 92
haimbachiana Kearfott 51
plumbolineana Kearfott 53
septemberana Kearfott 51
Epursea alticola Fall 223
Erax cinerascens 283
stamineus 283
Erotylidse 171
Etypbus townsendi • 107
Euaesthetus 219
neomexicanus Fall 219
Euaresta abstersa 106
araucosa 105
bella 105
pura 105
tapetis 105
timida 105
webbii Ip5
Eiicestia rotundata 335
EiicbJseua occantaria 343
Eucosma bobaua Kearfott 26
boxeaua Kearfott 87
brightonatia Kearfott 23
canariaiia Kearfott 18
cocana Kearfott 26
dodana Kearfott 27
fandana Kearfott 19
floridana Kearfott 21
fofana Kearfott 28
gandana Kearfott 20
bandana Kenrfott 20
hohana Kearfott 28
hopkinsana Kearfott 36
idahoana Kearfott 90
immaculana Kearfott 35
jobnsonana Kearfott 36
kandana Kearfott 20
kokana Kearfott 29
PAGE
Eucosma landana Kearfott 18
lolana Kearfott 29
raandana Kearfott 17
miscana Kearfott 91
momana Kearfott 30
nandana Kearfott 17
nomana Kearfott 30
palousana Kearfott 34
pandana Kearfott 17
popana Kearfott 31
randana Kearfott 21
rorana Kearfott 31
sandana Kearfott .... 22
snydeiana Kearfott 89
sonoraana Kearfott 27
spaldiugana Kearfott 19
sosana Kearfott 32
subinvicta Kearfott 33
tandana Kearfott 23
totana Kearfott 32
vandana Kearfott 24
vomonana Kearfott 90
vovana Kearfott 33
■walkerana Kearfott 89
wandana Kearfott 24
womonaua Kearfott 88
xandana Kearfott 24
yandana Kearfott 25
Zand an a Kearfott 25
Eulia uiscana Kearfott 94
Eumenes bolliforniis Viereck .387
cruciferorum Viereck. • ■ 388
enigmatus Viereck 389
globulosiformis Viereck 386
marginilineatus Viereck 381
Europs striatulus Fall 224
Eutreta sparsa 101
Euxoa epictata Smith 130
moxa Smith 129
Evetria burkeana Kearfott 4
colfaxiana Kearfott 3
monophylliana Kearfott 1
pasadenana Kearfott 3
pinicolana (errata) .97
sabiniaua Kearfott 2
zozana Kearfott 2
Flebotomus 322
cruciatus 322
INDEX.
PAGE
Flebotomus vexator 322
Geometridic 335
Gorytes giilieimi Viereck 408
papagoruni Viereck 400
subaustralis Viereck 398
Gy rill idle 163
Haliplidfe 162
Hedysonius wichitus Viereck 404
Heteroceridse 176
Heteropogon nigripes Jones 279
Heterothops mediscris Fall 220
Histeridse 173
Holcocephala abdoniinalis- 278
Holcopogon seniculus 279
Honiogliea dives !<mith 135
Hydriomena grand iosa 329
indefinata Grosxbeck 336
occidens 336
Hydrophilidae 163
Hyinenoptera of Western U. S.- • • .381
Hyperaspis lisematosticta Fall 222
Hypolescbus Fall 265
atratus Fall 266
Iphianlax triangulifera Viereck- . ■ .384
Liagriidie 205
Lanipria rubriventris 282
Lanipyridse 181
Laphria gilva 283
Laphystia sp 274, 275
Lasiopogon quadrivittatus Jones. ..278
Lathridiidse 175
Leptogaster muriuus 273
Leptura barberi Fall 250
cockerelli Fall 251
insignis Fall 251
keriiiana Fall 249
subcostata Fall 249
Limonius sinuifroiis Fall 227
Lucanidse 185
Luperodes semiliavus Fall 252
lUalacbidie 182
Mailopbora guiidiana 284
Maric'opodynerns niaricoporuni 1^^.397
Melaiidryidse 205
Meloidse 208
Mesoleuca abacta 339
atrifasciata 338
aurata 338
PAGE
Mesoleuca californiata 336
ethela 339
Metatrichia 109, 112
biilbosus 112
MonommidfE 205
Monotoniidip 176
Mordella fuscocinerea Fall 254
perlineata Fall 254
Mordellidse 206
Mordellistena 255
divisa 257
eirans Fall 256
festiva Fall 255
pallens Fall 255
sericans Fall 256
suspecta Fall 256
Mutilla apachea Viereck 386
Mycetopbagidse 172
Mydas abdoniinalis 107
cletpis 107
luteopennis 107
Myodites vierecki Fall 259
Narthecinus breviceps 223
grandiceps 223
monticola Fall 222, 223
simulator 223
striaticeps Fall 222, 223
Neaspilota alba 101
Neomedon piciventre Fall 220
Nitidulidaj 174
Noctuidse, New species 125
Nusa fulvicauda ? 281
Nysson intermedius 409
Ochodseus gnatbo Fall 247
miniius Fall 248
Odynerus anormiforniis Viereck •••407
canal iculatus Viereck 392
cocliisensis Viereck 395
congressus Viereck 405
giilielrna Viereck 408
hidalgiformis Viereck 391
niaricoporuni Viereck 397
papagoruni Viereck 394
pinorum Viereck 405
provisoreus Viereck 396
pulverulenta Viereck 406
rectangulus Viereck 393
spectabiliforrais Viereck 390
INDEX.
PAGE
Odynerus sulfuritinotus Viereck. ■ -389
tempiferus Viereck 392
yumus Viereck 397
CEdemeridie 206
Olethreutes coranana Kearfott 10
daeckeana Kearfott 12
devotana Kearfott 16
galaxana Kearfott 9
glitranana Kearfott 9
gogana Kearfott 8
islandana Kearfott 80
mana Kearfott 14
ocliromediana Kearfott 11
provana Kearfott 16
removana Kearfott 15
rosaochreana Kearfott 11
rubripunctana Kearfott 14
separatana Kearfott- 13
wellingtoniana Kearfott 13
Ophryastes symmetricus Fall 260
Ornix 287
albifasciella 295
aiiglicella 289, 294
arbitrella Dietz 289, 293
arbutifoliella Diets 289, 296
boreasella 289, 290
conspicuella Dietz 289, 293
cratjegifoliella 289, 292
dubitella Dietz 289, 292
guttea . 289, 290
kalmiella Dietz 289, 291
melanotella Dietz 289, 293
obliterella Diets 289, 297
preciosella Diets 289, 291
prunivorella 289, 294
quadripunctella 289, 295
solitariella Diets 290
strobivorella Dietz 289, 296
vicinella Diets 289, 296
Orthosia acta Smith 133
aggressa Smith 135
antipicta Smith 134
fornica Smith 134
inops 360
straminea Smith 132
Ospriocerus abdotninalis 273
Othniidse 205
Otidocephalus rbois Fall 266
PAGE
Otiorhyncbidse 211
Oxycnemis adustus Smith 139
baboquavaria Smith 137
gustis Smith 138
yuma Smith 133
Pachymenes bolliformis Viereck- - .387
Palaminus amplipenuis Fall 221
Pandeletejus ciuereu? 264
hilaris 264
rotundicoUis Fall 262, 263
simplariiis Fall 263, 264
subtropicus Fall 263, 264
Pandemis pyrnsana Kearfott 70
Parateuctus crinitns Fall 253
ParnidiB 176
Pedilophorus lateralis Fall 225
subcuprens Fall 225
snbsetosus Fall 224
Pepsis angiistimarginata Viereck- - .398
Pericoma 325
ameiicana 303, 309
bipunctata 303, 305
oalifornica 303, 304
furcata 303, 306
longiplata Haseman 303, 308
ocellaris 303, 309
olympia 303, 305
scala Haseman 303, 307
sitchana .' 303, 305
trialbawhoila Haseman.. 303, 306
tridactila 303, 304
triloba 303, 304
truncata 303, 309
variegata 303, 308
Perigea morosa Smith 141
Petropbora spaldingaria Grossbeck. -340
volucer 340
Phicnodus caddous Viereck 403
Phalacridse •'. 168
Phalonia anrorana Kearfott 83
bana Kearfott 73
basiochreana Kearfott 78
biscana Kearfott 75
bomonana Kearfott 75
carmelana Kearfott 76
cincinnatana Kearfott 78
discana Kearfott 78
elderana Kearfott 84
INDEX.
PACK
Phalonia fornionana Kearfott 81
foxcana Kearfott 84
giscana Kearfott 75
listerana Kearfott- • ■ 80
raaiana Kearfott 82
noiilavana Kearfott 85
obispoana Kearfott 77
sublepidaiia Kearfott 82
toxcaiia Kearfott 85
vachelliana Kearfott 80
viscana Kearfott 84
voxcana Kearfott 83
wiscaua Kearfott 77
zaracana Kearfott 74
ziscana Kearfott 76
zoxcana Kearfott 86
Philerenie formosa 337
iiigrescens 337
Phyllotrox quadricollis Fall 265
Plagiotoina obliqua 100
Pleonectj'ptera 363
finitinia 368, 377
geoinetralis 367, 370
habitalis 367, 370
histrionalis 368, 378
imniaculalis 367, 374
incusalis 367, 372
parallelus Smith 367. 373
punitalis Smith 367, 375
pyralis 367, 368
rectal is Smith 367, 375
reversalis Smith ...... .367, 371
secundalis Smith 368, 376
subflavidalis 368, 378
tenalis Smith .368, 379
Pogonosoma dorsatuni 281
Polemins binotatus Fall 236
regnlaris Fall 235
Polycbrosis anibrosiana Kearfott 8
aruucana Kearfott 5
niagnoliana Kearfott 6
vernoniana Kearfott 7
yaracana Kearfott 5
Proctacantbus milbertii 283
Proniachiis bastardii 284
fitcbii 284
vertebratus 284
Proteopteryx albicapitana .Kear/bf<. .47
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Proteopteryx faracana Kearfott 47 k
baracana Kearfott 46 I
laracana Kearfott 45
niaracana Kearfott 46
Proteoteras arizoiise Kearfott 48
crescentana Kearfott 49
naracana Kearfott 50
torontana Kearfott 50
Psammodius arabiguus Fall 241
Pselaphidse 165
Pseudatricbia 109. 112
fiaviceps 113, 114
griseola 112, 113
longurio 112,114
pilosa 113, 114
unicolor 112, 113
Psycbodidse, Nortb American ... .299
Psycboda 325
albi punctata 310. 313
albitarsis 310, 313
alternata 311, 320
bicolor 310, 314
cinerea 310,317
elegans 310, 317
floridana Haseman 310, 316
horizontala Haseman • ■ .310, 313 kingifringa Haseman. ■ ■ .310, 318
marginalis 310, 311
niinuta 310. 318
nigra .310, 314
nitida 310,311
nocturiiale Haseman • • • -310, 319
opposita 311, 321
scbizura 310, 316
Sigma 311, 321
signata 311, 320
slossoni 310. 314
snowi Haseman 310, 311
superba 310, 315
uniformata Haseman- ■ . .310, 319
Ptinidse 184
Pycnopogon cirrhatus 279
Pytbidae 206
Racbela hyperborea 335
latipennis 335
Rbadiurgus leucopogon 286
Rhiiiomaceridie 211
Rhipiceridse 177
INDEX.
PAGE
Rbipiphoridae 211
RhynchitidiE 211
Saropogon adustus 279
Scaphidiidfe 168
ScarabaeidiE 185
Scelolophia formosa 340
Scenopinidfe 109
Scenopinus 109
albidipennis Ill
fenistralis ,110
glabrifrous 110
nubilipes 110, 111
Schinia buta Smith 131
ernesta Smith 131
sara Smith 130
Scleropogon helvolus 273
similis Jb»ies 274
Scolytidse 217
Scydmsenidge 165
Selidosoma deiifatiini 342
Seruiophora atoma Smith 126
grisatra Smith 125
Setagrotis dernarius Smith 128
dncalis .Smiift 128
mWs Smith 127
Silphidae 164
Sparganothis bistriata Kearfott 67
taracana Kearfott 66
tristriata Kearfott 67
yumana Kearfott 67
Sphindidse 185
Spilograpba obfuscata 100
Spondylidse 190
Staphylinidfe 165
Staphylinus modestus Fall 219
Stenodynerus anormiformis Vier.- .^07
cochisensis Viereck 395
congressns Viereck 405
gulielrni Viereck 408
papagorum Viereck 394
provisoreus Viereck 396
rectangulis Viereck 393
tenipifenis Viereck 392
yumus Viereck 397
Stenopogon teacidinus 274
consanguineus 274
inquinatus 274
Stenoprosopus ? n. sp 284
PAGE
Stibadium fulginosa Smith 140
hutsoni Smith 140
Stichopogon trifasciatus 279
Stilicus oblitus Fall 221
Strauzia diflfusia 100
longipennis 99
Syndipnus erythrogaster Viereck- ■ .385
Tachy eockerelli Fall 218
Tseniocampa saleppa Smith 132
Telephorus insipidus Fall 235
Tenebrionidse 201
Tepbritis clathrata 101
corpulenta Cresson 103
despecta 105
dupla Cresson 102
fibulata 104
finalis 101
inornata 104
miirina 102
paliidipenuis Cresson 104
umbrata Cresson 102
Tbiodia annetteana Kearfott 42
aspbodelana Kearfott 42
aspidicana Kearfott 38, 39
awenieana Kearfott. ■ ■ .38, 39, 41
baracana Kearfott 43
caracana Kearfott 43
daracana Kearfott 44
essexana Kearfott 38, 39
ferriiginaua 38, 39
formosana 38
kiscana Kearfott 92
radiatana 37, 38
raracaua Kearfott 44
I'oseoterminana Kearf...38, 39, 40 nmbrastiiaiia Kearfott. ..38, 39,40
Tbroscidse 179
Tolmerus cailidus 285
notatus 285
Torn OS abjectarius 342
Tortiicidse, New N. Anier 1
Tortrix albiconiana 73
cbioccana Kearfott 72
cockerellana Kearfott 71
curvalana Kearfott 73
dorsipurpurana Kearfott 73
kukukana Kearfott 70
nervosana Kearfott 71
INDEX.
PAGK
Tortrix seniinolana Kenrfott 71
Trichalophus arcuatns Full 264
Tricliocliroiis hicoloripes Fall 239
incultus Fall 238
mixtus Full 237
placatus Full 238
prostenialis Fall 240
siniilis Fall 239
sophise Fall 236
Trichoniyia 323
lanceolata 323
unipimctata Haseman 323
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Triclis flavipilis Jones 275
Trogositidse 176
Trypetidae 99
Ulotnyia 325
Urellia eugenia 106
nievaina lOH
radifeia 106
stigmatica 106
vicina 106
Yrias terminalis S:mith 142
Zonitis martini Fall 257
vigilans Fall 257
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BY W. D. KEARFOTT.
ETetria monophylliaua sp. nov.
Expanse 15-19 mm.
Head : whitish-gray, mixed with brown and reddish scales; palpi light brown- ish-fuscous; thorax whitish-gray, striped with shades of brown and bright red scales; autennse light gray ; abdomen missing on all four specimens ; legs whitish, dusted with fuscous.
Forewing: white on the basal fourth and upper half from base to outer third, the ground color of the lower half, beyond the basal fourth and the apical third is a light pinkish-fawn or salmon. There are two transverse irregular bands of scattered fuscous-brown scales on basal fourth, with a few salmon dots in middle of the outer. There is a broad fuscous-brown fascia, more or less overlaid with salmon from middle of costa, through white ground color only, stopping at the salmon color. On each side of this the costa, in the white area, is evenly dotted with four or five fuscous-brown streaks. Above the salmon of the outer third the costa is narrowly white, on which are two groups of fuscous-brown scales, below each the salmon shade is more intense, of a coppery hue. Extreme edge of dorsum white, dotted with brown. Before a white preciliate line the termen is edged with bright red, slightly enlarged and mixed with a few blackish scales in the middle. Cilia inwardly red, outwardly pink, with a few scattered gray scales.
Hindwing: pale gray, cilia white, with a gray basal line; underside whitish- dusted with fuscous in apex, cilia white.
Underside forewing: grayish fuscous, two large white costal spots before apex, cilia leaden, with whitish basal line.
Four specimens from collections U. S. Nat. Mus. Bearing labels "On Sinns monophylla ;" Coso Valley, May 91, K ;" "Argus Mts., May 91, K." In the Century Atlas both Coso Valley and Argus Mountains are shown in Kern Co., Cal.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and my collection.
TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. (1) JANUARY. 1907.
2 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA.
Kvetria sabiniana sp. nov.
Expanse 22-23 mm.
Head : whitish, tinged with sahnon on sides ; palpi white, lightly tinged with pink on sides; thorax white, mottled with salmon ; antenna light salmon ; abdo- men white, anal tuft yellowish ; legs salmon, thinly banded and dusted with white.
Forewing : salmon, with a broad white fascia across middle of wing and a narrower white fascia across wing at outer third. The white fasciae are edged with shining scales, and a short line of the same cross wing before apex. These shining scales are white in the fascije and salmon elsewhere. The outer fascia is forked at costa, enclosing a small dot of salmon, between it and apex are two other obscure white costal dots. In the middle of wing at base is a streak of scales that are more of a pink shade than the salmon. Cilia white.
Hind wing: pale straw color, cilia white; underside the same, but darker below costa. Underside forewing ochreous yellow, dotted with white on costa, cilia white.
One specimen from collections U. S. Nat. Mus., bearing labels, " Sacramento Co., Cal.," " Augt. 9, '85," " 3820," " 43," " Larva on Fhius sabiuiana,'' and a label in Walsingham's handwriting " Ste- ganoptica n. sp. allied to sinicolana and huolana of Europe, left wings to W. 186."
One specimen from J. G. Gruudel, Santa Clara, Cal., emerged from pine gum, June 20, 1904. This last specimen is darker than the first; the head, palpi, and thorax are shades of pinkish brown ; the forewing is also more of a brownish pink, but the fascise, shining scales, and other marks are the same in both.
Cotypes in the U. S. Nat. Mus. and ray collection.
Kvetria zozana sp. nov.
Expanse 20 mm.
Head : pale fawn, mixed salmon, collar pale straw color; palpi very pale fawn within, speckled with light fuscous, externally red dish -salmon ; antenna gray ; thorax reddish-salmon in front and base of patagia, the balance gray, speckled with white; abdomen fuscous; legs speckled, cinereous gray and white.
Forewing: inner two-thirds white, heavily reticulated with blackish fuscous, somewhat concentrated in two darker fascia at inner fourth and middle, the lat- ter is overlaid with dull ochreous scales on lower two-thirds. The outer third is reddish, divided by a whitish-pink fascia composed of a large spot below costa and another one above anal angle. The inner half of this reddish area is over- laid with dull ochreous on lower half; the outer portion, outlining termen, is intense red and forms a narrow fascia which is enlarged a third below costa and continuous to costa before ajiex as an ochreous streak. Beyond the red terminal band is a narrow white pieciliate line. The cilia are pinkish, with a speckled white and gray line dividing this color below apex and superceding the pink at the anal angle.
Hind wing: smoky fuscous, darker at apex, cilia fuscous, with a darker line at base and a lighter line beyond.
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Underside paler than upper. Underside forewing smoky fuscous, cilia paler, preceded by a white basal line, and with the ends of tlie pink scales overlapping on upper half.
One specimen, Placer Co., Cal,, April 20; collected by Arthur H, Vachell.
Type in my collection.
Eveti'ia coiTaxiana sp. uov.
Expanse 22 mm.
Head and thorax whitish, mixed with black scales; palpi fawn, outer joint dark brown; antennse gray; abdomen gray, annulated with dark fuscous; anal tuft pale fawn ; legs pale fawn, dusted with fuscous.
Forewing: whitish gray. Base narrowly black, mottled with gray, succeeded by a whitish gray fascia, narrow on costa, broad on dorsum, followed by a broader dark fascia, black only on edges, overlaid in middle with gray, and above this a streak of ochreous; the outer line of this fascia is from costa at outer fourth, obliquely straight to fold, then concave to dorsum at inner third. Beyond this the ground color predominates, with a triangular spot on dorsum, at anal angle, sending a line of black scales from its upper end to costa at outer fourth, below costa this line connects with another shorter one which goes outside of ocellus. The broad whitish gray middle area is transversed by two, wide apart, lines of black scales, and lightly mottled with darker gray; through the middle of cell and below fold are horizontal streaks of yellowish. The ocellus is a flattened oval, long axis vertical, of whitish shining scales, enclosing a vertical line of shining ochreous. Beyond it the apex is coppery yellow. There are five black and four whitish spots on costa beyond middle, the inner two join together below, making a large quadrate dark shade, from the fourth dark spot descends the line of black scales above mentioned and from the fifth a similar black line divides the coppery sh^ide. All of these dark spots are overlaid in the middle with coppery brown. Cilia pale gray, mottled with fuscous.
Hind wings: fuscous, cilia whitish ; underside gray, dotted with dark fuscous on costa. Underside forewings dark fuscous, mottled with black ; costal spots repeated.
One specimen, Colfax, Placer Co., Cal., July ; collected by Artliur H. Vachell.
Evetria pai^adenana sp. nov.
Expanse 15-19 mm.
Head : reddish-ochreous ; palpi creamy-ochreous inside, dark reddish outside; antenna fuscous; thorax fuscous gray, patagia reddish at base and tipped with grayish-white; abdomen light brownish fuscous; legs grayish-white, banded and powdered with dark brown.
Forewing: gray, overlaid with reddish-brown scales, becoming more red in outer third. There are five transverse geminate paler gray lines, at about equal distance apart, the outer, before apex, reaches only to middle of wing; where each touches costa is a paler dot. The terminal line is white, sending dashes of same color into cilia, over each vein, below apex ; before this white line is a
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darker red shade from apex to anal angle, enlarged at the middle of the wing, it is continued as a red spot on dorsum before angle, above this in middle of wing is a clear red spot and a less distinct one above it on costa. Cilia gray, shaded with ferruginous at apex.
Hind wing: grayish-fuscous, cilia same, divided by a slightly darker line close to base ; underside the same, but cilia whiter. Underside forewings smoky fus- cous, reddish at apex.
Three specimens, Pasadena, Cal., April 14, W. G. Dietz ; Ala- meda Co., Cal., March; Carrael-by-the-Sea, Monterey Co., Cal., A.
H. Vachell.
Evetria burkeana sp. nov.
Expanse, %, 26-28 mm.
Head : with short tuft above eyes and between antennae, face flattened, small, with thorax whitish-gray, thickly dotted with fuscous-brown ; "griseous." Eyes jet black, with irregular lines of reddish-brown. Palpi, basal and second joint with moderate flattened tuft above and below, increasing slightly in width to end of second joint, same color as head ; third joint obtusely pointed, about half length of second and not concealed by tufts of second, black, except base, which is paler. Antennae, basal joint enlarged, whitish, with a streak of black in front; outer joints shortly ciliated below, pale fuscous, length about one-half. Abdomen dark fuscous above and below, scales overlapping posterior edge of each segment pale cinereous; a slight ridge of same color on each side, anal tufts same. Legs whitish, first and second pairs rather heavily clouded with dark brown on femora and tibiai. and all tarsi heavily annulate with brown.
Forewing: white, with numerous transverse lines and fasciae of gray-brown. A broad fascia from costa to dorsum ; with its inner edge on costa at middle and outer edge at three-quarters; on dorsum, inner edge at two-thirds and outer edge at angle; the inner edge is much indented below upper vein of cell by a rounded prominence of white which nearly divides it ; below this, above dorsum is a simi- lar but less deep indentation ; the outer edge of fascia is nearly straight, but much broken and indented. Before the fascia, to base, the surface is rather evenly strigulated with black and white, with the following more prominent markings ; below middle on dorsum from inner third to inner sixth an irregular dark blotch, its outer edge with two rounded projections (which are parallel to corresponding indentation in fascia) ; between this blotch and fascia the color is more white than black, making an illy-defined whitish fascia before the dark one and at about equal width; on costa, before dark fascia, are four geminated white streaks, only the two outer ones (in whitish fascia) are well defined. Api- cal fifth of wing above ocellic space grayish-brown, with a narrow line continu- ing down to anal angle, between this and dark fascia is a narrow fascia of white, strigulated with dark lines from costa to outer margin above angle. The apex is dark, with a preciiiate paler line; before apex the costa is marked with five prominent black dots, the outer two of which are on outer white fascia and inner three on middle dark fascia. Cilia blackish, interrupted by four white dots below apex and three larger white dots around angle. The blackish lines and fascia are, of the forewing, all more or less overlaid with gray, giving less the appear- ance of black and white than of grayish-brown and white.
Hindwing: pale, smoky fuscous, cilia paler, with a darker then a lighter line.
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Underside forewhig very dark smoky fuscous above lower median vein, white below it; costa and cilia dotted evenly with white,
Underside hindwing whitish, costal half shaded and reticulated with fuscous, cilia same, with fuscous dashes at ends of veins.
Two males, Hoquiam, Washington, bred by Mr. Burke, from Picea sitchensis, and bearing Division of Forestry recond label "4009-9^ and 4009-9' Hopk. U. S."
Cotypes U. S. Nat. Mus. and in my collection.
PolychrosiM aruiicana sp. nov.
Expanse 8.5-11 mm.
Head and palpi clay-yellow, latter tinged with brown on outside of tufts and former with brown behind. Thorax clay-brown, thickly dotted with darker brown, tuft leaden-black. Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft and legs clay-yellow, lat- ter dusted and anulate with brown.
Forewing: inner third pale grayish-blue, divided by a brown band from costa, which reaches only to upper edge of cell. Costa within this space marked with three black spots, edged on both sides with white. The central fascia is narrow- est on costa at middle, its inner edge goes vertically to dorsal margin, its outer edge obliquely to anal angle. The flattened oval brown patch in apical fourth sends two spurs to costa, another from outer edge to termen and which follows termen to angle, and coalesces with the central fascia at angle. These brown areas are overlaid with black on upper half of wing, and with three horizontal black lines in the flattened oval, beyond the end of cell with shining golden ochreous on lower half. There are four geminate white spots on costa between middle and apex, from each extends below costa pale metallic-blue streaks, the inner one extends across the brown fascia to dorsum, but is separated into three spots by the brown color. The apical and the one before it send oblique streaks to termen. A line of the same scales borders lower half of termen. Cilia leaden blue, with two tiny dashes of white on outer ends of the cilia below apex.
Hindwing: dark smoky brown, cilia white outwardly ; underside grayish -brown.
Underside forewing smoky brown, costal spots repeated.
Eiglit specimens, from Prof. C. H. Chittenden, in charge of breed- ing experiments at the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, bred from larvse on Aruncus aruncua. Record number 9215. Cabin John's Bridge, Md., issued May 10 to 21, 1900.
Can be distinguished from any other species in this genus by the golden yellow patches.
Polychrosis yaracaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 9-10.5 mm.
Palpi and head pale creamy-brown, a shade darker on outside of tufts of former and collar of latter. Antennse the same color, brown between joints. Thorax same shade of brown as collar, tufts cinnamon-brown. Abdomen whitish-gray, ringed with fuscous-brown between each segment, tuft gray, tinged with yellow and speckled above with brown. Legs white annulate and dusted with brown.
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Forewing: a conspicuous black spot rests ou costa between inner tliird and mid- dle, and as a central fascia continues to fold, but i)ec()nies brown below the middle of the wing; its inner edge is slightly oblique to middle of wing, then vertical towards dorsum, but before reaching latter it turns and the outer margin runs obliquely upward in a spur to the middle of wing ; the brown of this spur is shaded with black and above the spur is a white semi-circular patch containing on its lower side a small dot of fuscous. Between base and this dark fascia the ground color is white, with three, nearly equidistant black lines from costa to middle of wing; the middle one inwardly outlines a pale brown fascia extending nearly to dorsum ; the inner fourth of dorsal margin, below the fold, is overlaid with brown and black scales; and a few scales of the same colors mark the base above. The white ground color, inside the middle fascia, is heavily overlaid with gray on the upper half of wing, and a patch of the same on lower half just before fascia; along the dorsum the white extends beyond the fdscia, nearly to outer fourth rather heavily overlaid with gray at the outer end. Beyond the dark central fascia is a large olivaceous brown patch, extending from below costa to anal angle, rounded on its outer edge and nearly straight in its inner. A line of steely-gray scales sepa- rate it from a smaller triangular patch of the same color, in dorsum, within anal angle; the steely-gray line continues to costa at outer fourth, but becomes white above the middle of wing, where it joins another white line from costa, which runs obliquely outward to middle of terraen, a similar white streak from costa, before apex, runs into this at middle of termen. The latter is interrupted by a streak of black scales below apex, and both of these white lines are outlined witli gray scales. A similar but shorter white line separates the brown patch from termen above the angle. In apex is a lunate patch of brown overlaid with black. Cilia leaden-gray, interrupted below apex and at middle by a whitish dash, and few scales of whitish at angle.
Hindwing: white, tinged with smoky-brown in apex and before margin. Outer ends of cilia white, shaded with pale brown within. Underside the same.
Underside forewing fuscous, with eight geminate white spots on costa, cilia dark leaden-gray.
Five specimens, collected at Cincinnati, Ohio, by Miss Annette F. Braun, April 29th to May 14th.
This species is nearer to the European P. botrana than any of the American species I have seen.
Folychrosis ma$;iioIiana sp. nov.
Expanse, % , 11.5 mm. ; 9 ' 1~ ™in-
Head, i)alpi, antennse and thorax cinnamon-brown, thorax streaked with leaden-l)lack before the tuft, and the outer ends of tuft reddish-brown. Abdo- men fuscous, anal segment leaden, tuft ochreous. Legs creamy-white, powdered with blackish-brown.
Forewing: inner half leaden-blue, divided by a narrow transverse line, which is bluish above and brown below middle. The middle fascia extends from costa to dorsum, its inner edge nearly straight and vertical; it is narrow to middle, then broadens outwardly to double the width, and from the widest outward point curves inwardly to dorsum, where it is less wide than at costa; black above.
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brown below middle of wing, and outlined by ochreous-brown scales. Just above the outer limb of fascia and at about the end of the cell is a conspicuous round spot of bright ochreous yellow, from the upper edge of which an ochreous streak goes obliquely towards costa. Above this is a small black quadrate patch on costa with a streak of blue separating it from the middle fascia. A flattened oval patch of brown occupies the most of the apical fourth, with a smaller rounded patch of same color on dorsum before angle; these brown jiatches are outlined with shining leaden-gray scales. A similar lunate patch occupies the extreme apex, brown, dotted with black. On the outer fourth of costa are three geminate ochreous dots. Cilia mottled ochreous-brown, with a dash of leaden below apex and at middle.
Hind wing: very dark smoky brown, cilia whitish, paler within. Underside fuscous, with a yellowish streak above cell.
Underside forewing dark smoky brown, with costal dots repeated, cilia brown with two leaden dashes in ternien, below apex, and leaden above apex and at angle angle.
Five specimens, bred from larvse in the leaves of swamp magnolia.
Bennings Station, District of Columbia, and Moorestown, N". J. Pupated August 1-7 ; issued August 10-20.
Nearest to P. liriodendrana, but can be at once separated by the conspicuous yellow dot at the end of cell, which can be easily seen without the use of a lens.
Polyclirosis veruoniana sp. nov.
Expanse 9-11 mm.
Head: light brown, pale fawn in front; palpi pale fawn within, dark brown outside; antenna fuscous; thorax coppery brown, with a middle and two lateral black stripes, tuft ferruginous; abdomen fuscous; legs whitish, dusted with brown.
Forewing: pale bluish-gray. A large triangular fascia in middle of wing, the inner edge nearly a straight vertical line from costa to dorsum, the outer edge from costa curves outward and upward to end of cell, thence obliquely inward to dorsum. In the outer fourth is a large brown spot, touching anal angle below, and the costal edge above. At anal angle between these two is a small triangu- lar brown spot. All of these three fasciae and spots have horizontal black lines running through them. Above the outer limb of the fascia and the terminal spot, the space below costa is covered with ochreous brown scales mottled with darker brown. The costa is marked with fine line and dashes from base to apex. In the apex is an ocellated brown spot. The bluish, slightly shining ground color in this species is in well-defined bands; before the middle a narrow transverse band, between which and base is another of same width but more obscure. A narrow band surrounds the large terminal spot, except where the latter touches middle of termen, this band sends a spur into costa and into dorsal margin. Cilia blackish above, brown at angle angle, with a bluish xeflection.
Hind wing : dark smoky brown, cilia white outwardly ; underside a shade paler.
Underside forewing smoky fuscous, with eight or nine dull ochreous geminate spots on costa.
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Twenty-one specimens, all bred from larvfe feeding in the flower heads and young seeds of Vernonia noveboracensis, Caldwell, N. J. ; issued August 4th to 10th ; District of Columbia, July 28th to August 7th ; Dept. Agri., No. 3557, issued May 22d.
Polyehrosis anibro»i»iaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 9-11 mm.
Head : pale fawn in front, darker over eyes and above ; palpi very pale fawn, a shade darker on outside and apex; antenna brownish fuscous, becoming dark gray at outer end; thorax mottled, ocbreous brown, black in centre; abdomen smoky black, anal tuft whitish above, cinereous beneath ; legs very pale fawn, banded and dusted with fuscous.
Forewing: dull bluish gray, with a transverse brown band from middle of costa to anal angle, narrow and blackish brown on upper half, widest and lightest brown on lower half; an oblique line of the bluish ground color crosses this baud on lower half of wing, cutting off a triangular spot on the dorsal margin. There is a narrow light brown fascia, mottled with darker brown close to base, and a finer darker line before this; a large patch of fawn-brown, mottled with darker brown covers apical part of wing, separated from the brown ocellate apical spot by a crescent-shape line of bluish-gray. This patch, by a darker brown shades forms a large lunate spot in middle of wing before termen, which sends a long spur into' termen at middle, another into anal angle, and in upper end is connec- ted with the fawn-brown streak along costa. The costal edge is fawn-brown, with fine lines and dashes of darker brown and black. Cilia blackish-fuscous, becoming brown at anal angle.
Hind wing: smoky fuscous, cilia whitish.
Underside both wings dark silvery-gray, costa dotted with pale fawn.
Fifteen specimens, bred from larvae feeding in the seeds of Am- brosia trijidi, from Cincinnati, Ohio, forwarded by Miss Annette F. Braun, and one specimen bred many years ago from the same seeds by Miss Mary E. Murtfeldt, at Kirk wood, Mo. Larvae were full fed and pupating from Aug. 10th to 20th ; moths issued Aug. 20th to Sept. 10th. There is a later brood which hibernate in the seeds as larvae. I have one flown specimen from Miss Braun, cap- tured May 14th.
Olethreutes gogana sp. nov.
Expanse 20 mm.
Head : dark fuscous ; palpi dark fuscous, black outwardly, pale ocbreous at base and underside of head ; antenna dark fuscous; thorax black, patagia and poste- rior end streaked with reddish-brown ; abdomen light fuscous, with long lateral tufts, anal tuft cinereous; legs cinereous dusted with black.
Forewing: dusky black, with obscure grayish-white shining fascia and spots. The most prominent is from inner fourth of costa to inner third of dorsum, broader on dorsal margin. There are two narrower bands from beyond middle of costa to dorsum of anal angle. There are three flattened spots under the costa
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between the twin fasciae and apex, and a streak from below the middle one to termen at middle, then to anal angle. In the apex is a large rounded spot of ochreous, all of the spots in apical third of wing contain ochreous scales; and a sprinkling of same over the balance of the wing. Cilia shining fuscous, preceded by an ochreous line.
Hindwing : smoky gray, cilia light gray ; underside same. Underside hindwing a shade darker, costal spots repeated, and an ochreous preciliate line.
One S specimen, Wellington, B. C, April 4th, collected by G.
W. Taylor.
Olethrentes galaxana sp. nov.
Expanse 21 to 23 mm.
Head: ochreish -brown, mixed with black scales; palpi same shade of brown outside, paler inside, with a few scales at outer end of tuft, and apical joint black; antenna shining yellowish-gray; thorax black, thickly speckled with ochreish-brown, and tips of patagia same color; abdomen blackish-fuscous, pos- terior edge of each segment pale yellowish-white, anal tuft pale ochreous; legs fuscous black, thinly ringed and dusted with pale ochreous.
Forewing: pale ochreous-brown or light fawn, with basal patch, middle and outer fascia black, the dark areas outlined by shining steel-blue metallic scales.
The dark basal area is more or less overlaid with brown scales; it reaches to inner sixth on costa, is widest above middle of wing, is sharply indented below middle. The middle dark fascia is, from costa before middle, as a flattened ovate spot to below cell ; to its inner, lower edge is joined a similar but smaller spot which completes the fascia to dorsal margin. The outer fascia begins at outer fourth of costa as a small spot on costa, enlarges immediately below costa, and, as a large, flattened ovate spot, extends nearly to termen above anal angle and fills more than half the area beyond cell. Below it, and separated only by the metal- lic line, is a rounded dark spot on dorsum before anal angle. The costa in the dark basal area is lightly speckled with brown, between this and middle fascia with three geminate brown and black dots, in the outer half with four geminate brown spots, becoming whitish on entering edge of costa. The four lines of metallic scales in outer half of wing begin at these germinate spots. A narrow apical area beyond the last metallic line is black, overlaid with brown. Cilia shining leaden.
Hindwing: Grayish-fuscous; cilia shining, lighter fuscous, with a darker line near base ; underside, both wings, same as upper side of hindwing. Costal spots repeated.
Three specimens, Vernon, B. C, April 13th and May 18th, Vic- toria, B. C.
Olethreiites glilranaua sp. nov.
Expanse 15 to 17 mm.
Head : pale fawn, mixed with black; palpi, pale fawn, shaded with black out- side, apical joint blackish ; antenna pale fawn ; thorax blackish-fuscous, edged with pale fawn; abdomen black, each segment posteriorly edged with white; tuft light ochreous; legs light ochreous, banded and dusted with black.
Forewing: two distinct, narrow creamy-ochreous, clouded with pale brown fasciae, the inner at inner third and outer at outer third on a ground color of black rather heavily covered with light reddish-brown scales, the latter thicker in api-
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cal thiifl. The inner pale fascia form two geminate spots on costa ; from the inner a broken line of steel-hlue metallic scales, starting on the inside edge of fascia, crosses it, and on lower half outlines the outer edge ; from the outer gemi- nate spot a short line of metallic bounds the outer edge of fascia. There are two similar geminate spots and metallic lines from outer pale fascia; the inner line is much broken, but in dots outlines the inner edge of fascia; the outer metallic line follows outer edge of fascia to middle, then goes nearly to anal angle, but does not connect with a small group of metallic scales at that point. There are two geminate costal spots before apex, from the inner a metallic line maigins termen nearly to anal angle; from the outer a short metallic line defines a darker apical spot; between these Hues is a streak or narrow fascia of reddish-brown. There is a blackish preciliate line preceded by an irregular mottled line. The cilia is shining leaden at apex, cream color below, with dashes of brownish-fus- cous in middle of wing and outwardly edged with this color below middle.
Hind wing: smoky, dark brown ; cilia cream-white with a fuscous basal line; underside the same, but somewhat mottled with pale fawn; underside forewing smoky, dark brown ; costal dots repeated.
Ten specimens, Aweme, Manitoba, June 39th to July 5th, Nor- man Griddle ; Regina, Assa., July 2d, T. N. Willing; Winnipeg, Man., A. W. Hanhani.
Olethreiile^ coroiiaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 16 to 19 mm.
Head: pale fawn, mixed with a few black scales on top; palpi pale fawn, blackish on outer end of tuft and with a black dot above on outside of second and first joints; antenna whitish-fawn ; thorax fawn in which black is mixed ; ends of patagia paler fawn ; abdomen blackish-fuscous, posterioily each segment edged with whitish; anal tuft yellowish-ochreous, darker at base; legs dark cream, banded and powdered with blackish-brown.
Forewing : pale olivaceous brown or light fawn, mottled with black and crossed by a number of steely-blue metallic lines. The black scales are closer together forming a dark fascial shade across wing at middle; inner edge straight, outer edge rounded ; its width at middle is half the width of wing. A similar but less distinct dark shade beyond end of cell, starting from the two middle ef the four geminate costal spots on outer half; its inner edge slightly concave to dorsal margin, its outer edge sweeping around before termen. The paler fascia between these is narrower than the outer dark fascia, and is divided at its lower third, sending a branch to anal angle and one to outer fourth of dorsum, and enclosing in the fork a triangular darker spot. The metallic irregularly separates these lighter and darker areas. A short metallic line from costa before apex outlines a small brown spot. Cilia cream-white with a small spot of fuscous in apex, and similar dashes at ends of veins 3, 4, and 5.
Hindwing: cream-white, lightly dotted with brownish-fuscous around margin, and veins 6 and 7 overlaid with same color beyond the cell; cilia whitish with a darker basal line; underside the same w'ith less brown scales. Underside fore- wing olivaceous brown, mottled with yellovvish-vvhite before termen and costal spots repeated in same color.
Three specimens, Aweme, Man., July 9th and 31st, Norman Grid- dle; Beulah, Man., Aug. 15th, A. J. Dennis.
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Olethroiites rosaschreaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 12.5 to 14 mm.
Head: dark rose, tinged with ochreous behind, and the frontal scales tipped with black; palpi dark rose, ochreous within ; antenna grayish-fnscons ; thorax dark rose, ochreous in centre ; abdomen silvery-fuscous ; legs cream-white dusted with dark brown.
Forewing : above fold dark rose, below fold orange-ochreous, except at extreme base and at outer end, where the ochreous merges into the prevailing rose color. There is a shining patch of paler rose on upper third of wing between base and middle ; the upper edge of this merges into ochreous on costa. There is a similar patch of paler shining rose scales in the ocellic area ; it follows termen from lower third around angle to outer fifth of dorsum ; its upper edge nearly reaches middle of wing, and sends a rounded process inward before curving downward and out- ward to dorsum ; near its upper edge are a few metallic scales. Between this patch and the ochreous dorsal patch there is a blackish-rose shade along outer third of fold. On the costa between inner third and apex are five geminate, very oblique yellowish streaks, the inner is in the light rose shining patch ; from the streak in middle of wing is a long streak of shining rose paralleling costa and curving gradually before apex and termen, ending in the latter below middle. This shining streak is bounded inwardly by a broader .streak of dull rose. Be- tween the shining streak and apical margin, including upper half of termen, the interspaces between veins dull ochreous, and the dull rose over the veins is out- wardly lightly strigulated with whitish-yellow. Before the black preciliate line is a line of dull rose shaded with black over veins. N^ar the outer end of cell are two spots of leaden fuscous, the smaller near upper edge and larger near lower edge of cell. Cilia rose, becoming gray at anal angle and touched with blackish at end of each vein.
Hindwing: dull, smoky brown; cilia same, but shining, with a darker basal line; underside, both wings the same.
Six specimens, Florida, from Prof. Fernald's collection. Cotypes in his and my collection.
The wing coloration of this species is allied to Malachitana Lell.
Olethreiites ocliromediana sp. nov.
Expanse 11.5 to 12 mm.
Head : mixed ochreous and black, paler ochreous in front and base of antenna ; palpi pale ochreous, two black spots on outside of second joint; apical joint black; antenna grayish-fuscous; thorax ochreous, patagia and posterior tuft blackish-fuscous; abdomen grayish-fuscous, anal tuft pale yellow ; legs creamy- white dusted with dark fuscous.
Forewing: basal area and apical third mottled black, ochreous and shining blue lines. The middle of the wing is covered by a broad ochreish fascia, com- mencing as a narrow spot on costa but swelling out below and covering half the dorsum. Its inner edge begins on costa at inner third, is nearly straight for a third the width of wing, then curves convexly to dorsum at inner fourth ; the outer edge begins close beyond the inner edge, curves convexly to dorsum at outer fourth ; it is dentate, sending out spurs at upper fourth, middle, and lower
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third. Between the fascia and base is an ochreous dostal spot that sends a line to dorsum, but is interrupted at fold. Beyond the fascia are several ochreous streaks, the inner connecting with an ochreous and black patch ; the one from middle of wing sends a curving fascia under costa to anal angle before termen. On the outer third the ochreous spots merge together in a continuous streak be- low costa. The dark ground color is almost entirely overlaid or dotted with metallic blue. There are some black vertical lines from ocellus to above middle of wing. The ocellus is not clearly defined, consisting of an irregular line of steely-blue scales defined on each side by these black lines. Cilia pinkish-fuscous. Hindwing: smoky fuscous, slightly paler at base, cilia whitish; underside both wings grayish-fuscous; forewing a shade darker with costal spots repeated on extreme edge.
Three specimens, Hazleton, Pa., June 4th and July 14th, Dr. Dietz; Hampton, N. H., July 25th, S. Albert Shaw.
Allied to and very much like osmundana Fern., but entirely lacks the shining whitish bands in the outer half of that species as well as its well-defined spot on dorsum before anal angle.
Oletlireutes daeckeana sp. nov.
Expanse 17 to 19 mm.
Head: black, mixed with pink scales; palpi pale fawn, black outwardly and apically; antenna blackish-fuscous; thorax blue-black; patagia mottled, pale fuscous and piuk ; abdomen fuscous; legs cinereous, dusted and banded with black.
Forewing: mottled, shining, dull blue-black and pinkish-ochreous. There is a transverse fascia in middle of wing of velvety-black scales, changing to dull ochreous at dorsum ; the inner edge is indented four times ; the outer edge gives off three long spurs about equally separated. A smaller black spot is on fold at inner fourth ; a disconnected black streak runs from it to base, and above it on costa is another. There is a lunate black spot before apex and a black line from anal angle to above middle of wing. The black spots are generally outwardly outlined with reddish-ochreous. The balance of the ground color is shining dull-blue, dotted with black and pinkish-ochreous. Before the middle the costa is marked with six short reddish-ochreous dashes; there are four larger wedge- shaped streaks of same color on outer half; the two outer join below costa and send a line paralleling termen to middle of wing ; the outer ends of veins before termen are outlined with black. Cilia bluish-fuscous with a darker line at base.
Hindwing: coppery-brown; cilia fuscous with darker basal line; underside, both wings the same; forewing less coppery and more grayish-fuscous.
Ten specimens, bred from larvse boring in the stalks and flowers of the pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, at Toms River, N. J., and Brown's Mills Junction, N. J., issued July 4th to Aug. 4th, all collected and bred by Mr. E. Daecke, in whose honor the species is named.
This species belongs to the group in which are hebesana Walk, and agilana Clem.
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Oletlireiites Wellington iana sp. nov.
Expanse 18 mm.
Head: fuscous, hoary-white ou top; palpi cinereous, outer joint dark brown, antenna cinereous; thorax mottled white and fuscous: abdomen yellowish; legs ashy-white, shaded with dark brown.
Forewing: mottled, white, gray, dark fuscous and black. The darker scales form a fascia across wing beyond middle; the inner edge from costa at middle curving slightly inward to middle of wing; thence more or less distinctly to dorsum ; the outer edge from costa at three-fifths from base, angles outwardly to middle of cell, then obliquely inward to dorsum before angle. It contains a whitish shade in outer angle, and is mottled with black above middle, with an occasional ferruginous scale. Before this is a white fascia, only clearly defined on upper half; before this is a darker shade, not definite enough to call a fascia, it contains four black dots in middle of wing, two above and two below fold.
The small basal area is slightly paler. Beyond the principal dark fascia, the apical fourth is white, with four indistinct large gray costal spots, the inner two sending a gray shade curving toward termen then to anal angle.
There is a row of seven or eight terminal black dots, the three upper ones the most distinct. Cilia grayish-fuscous, with a whitish basal line.
Hind wing : cinereous-gray, cilia same ; underside same shade but mottled with fuscous.
Underside forewing dark cinereous gray, costal spots repeated and line at ter- minal dots faintly repeated.
Two specimens, Wellington, Br. Col., May 19th, collected by Rev. George W. Taylor.
Olethreutes s«>paratana sp. nov.
Expanse 12-15 mm.
Head: black; palpi black, fuscous within; antenna fuscous; thorax black, patagia pale lilac, with a black spot near base, posterior tuft bronzy-black ; thorax, inner half, cinereous, outer half fuscous; legs grayish-white, banded and dusted with dark brown.
Forewing: outer two-fifths pale lilaceous-white, with four pale fuscous costal streaks and a shade of the same color before termen. A small black dot in mid- dle of wing at end of cell ; and a gray shade at anal angle. The inner three-fifths of wing is mottled black and gray, with a lilaceous patch from base to inner fourth on upper half of wing which connects by a few pale scales with a gemi- nate quadrate spot between dorsum and fold before middle of wing. Cilia pink- ish-fuscous, paler at angle.
Hindwing: smoky brown, cilia whitish; underside yellowish-gray, mottled with fuscous
Underside forewing: smoky fuscous, costal dots repeated.
Nine specimens, Essex Co., N. J., June 14th to 15th ; New Brighton, Pa., June 2d and Aug. 20th, J. A. Merrick ; Washington Co., Ark., Aug., A. J. Brown ; Cincinnati, Ohio, June 17th, Miss Braun.
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This species has been wrongly identified as 0. dimidiana SodofF. in almost all collections. Dimidiana is a darker species. It has a spot on costa at inner third, and the blackish area conies much closer to anal angle. It does not have the pale shade from base and the pale spot on dorsum before middle. Have never seen a North American specimen at all like the European dimidiana, and do not believe it occurs on this continent.
Olethrenfes mana sp. nov.
Expanse 18 mm.
Head : ferruginous and black ; palpi pale cinereous, outer end of tuft and apical joint blackish ; antenna brownish-fuscous, blackish at base ; thorax brown, poste- rior tuft black; abdomen fuscous; legs yellowish-white, banded and dusted with blackish-brown.
Forewing: inner three-fifths yellowish-brown, vertically strigulated with wavy darker brown and fuscous, which on the costa form darker dots; below the fold on the inner half is a whitish shade, with a cluster of long blackish scales on the dorsum before it. The outer two-fifths is creamy-white, with a shade of fine fus- cous dots before apex, divided by a line of raised shining cream-white scales ; there is a small patch of leaden scales above middle of wing at end of cell, sur- rounded by a ring of white raised scales, with a small tuft of the same above and below, the latter running to anal angle and continued along termen to middle. There is a leaden spot in middle of wing near end of cell and another below it on the dorsum, both in the dark area. The dark and whitish areas are rather sharply defined, the division being straight from outer third of costa to middle of dorsum. There are four blackish dots on costa in white area, and black scales are over each vein forming a terminal row, at the apex the black scales are more frequent, Cilia dirty white, becoming fuscous and black at apex.
Hindwing: smoky brown, cilia white, with a dark basal line; underside creamy-white, mottled and outward strigulated with brownish fuscous.
Underside forewing: smoky fuscous, dotted with creamy-white along costa and an preapical line of the same shade.
Two specimens, Black Jack Springs, Texas, Dr. Barnes ; Victo- ria, Texas, April 10th, E. A. Schwartz.
Should be placed in list between nimbatana Clem, and separatana Kearf.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and my collection.
Olethreutes rubipnnctana sp. nov.
Expanse 17-22 mm.
Head: light brown on top, black in front and over eyes; palpi light brown inside, smoky black outside, apical joint black, tipped with light brown ; thorax centre black, pale fawn at base of tuft, tuft satTron-red. patagia fuscous at base becoming pale fawn outwardly; abdomen grayish-fuscous, tuft pale ochieous; legs yellowish-white, banded and dusted with dark brown.
Forewing : the outer third pinkish-white, inner two-thirds mottled with shades of brown and black. In the middle of wing is a large black patch, its upper edge
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touching costa, and lower nearly to middle of wing, about as wide as deep, two streaks of brown scales divide it in some specimens. There is a shade of dull slate-blue before and below it, and a few scales of the color on its outer edge be- neath costa. Between the slate-blue streak and dorsal margin the fascia is con- tinued of light brown mixed with black. Below the inner half of slate-blue scales is a pinkish-white patch on dorsum, and above it a light mottled brown patch to costa, the three forming a paler fascia. Inside of this pale fascia the basal area is mottled shades of brown, shaded outwardly with black below costa and below middle. On the dorsum at base is a patch of slate-blue. In the outer third white area there is a conspicuous spot above dorsum, inside the ocellic area, of two or three short vertical lines of brown and black, and a more or less dis- tinct single line running up to middle of wing. There is a broken narrow band of black and brown scales from costal spot before apex to termeu below middle, crossed on veins 6 and 7 by bluish lines ; in some specimens the bluish vein lines, with the black interspaces at their outer ends closely resemble the rim and spokes of a fifteen degree wheel segment. On the costa, in the whitish area, are four large saffron spots; the apical spot is black, edged with saffron. Oiling shining dark blue, dusky at apex, whitish at anal angle, a fine whitish basal line preceded by black terminal line.
Hindwiug: light coppery-brown, cilia whitish, underside gray, with a coppery deflection.
Underside forewing: smoky black, with large paler mottlings on costa and outer end.
Six specimens, Placer Co., Cal., May 1st, Vachell ; Cisco, Cal., June 1st, Vachell ; San Luis Obispo, Cal., March, Vachell ; Colo- rado, No. 2693, Gillette.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and my collection.
01eilireute!!» removaiia sp. uov.
Expanse 17-21 mm.
Head, palpi and antenna grayish-brown ; thorax gray, tips of tuft and patagia pink; thorax, golden-gray tufts of long scales, on side whitish, anal tuft golden- brown ; legs cream-white, banded and dusted with dark brown.
Forewing: dark gray, mottled with a darker shade. The color of wing is nearly a uniform gray, with all marking obsolete, with the eye can be seen a faintly darker line from middle of costa to anal angle; with a lens there is a darker shade at inner fourth of costa forming an inner fascia, entirely obsolete below middle of wing, and along costa slightly darker costal spots separated by a shade lighter gray. In the middle of wing before termen is a darker shade. Cilia concolorous.
Hiudwing: light smoky brown, cilia whitish, darker at apex, underside whit- ish-brown, darker along termen and mottled below costa.
Underside forewing: dark fuscous-gray, with large whitish geminate costal spots.
Four specimens. New Brighton, Pa., Aug. 21st, F. A. Merrick ; Algonquin, 111., June 25th, Dr. Nason ; Aweme, Man., Aug. 16th, Norman Criddle ; Chicago, 111., June, J. H. Reading.
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Olellireutes provaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 22 mm.
Head and thorax yellowish-white, posterior tuft black; palpi light brown; shaded with black on outside; antennsE light fuscous; abdomen yellowish brown, legs yellowish-white, dusted with dark brown.
Forewing: white, with an inner and middle dark fascia, the beginning of an outer fascia and two dark spots on costa between latter and apex.
The fasriaj and spots are white, dotted with black and edged with black. The inner fascia is very close to base and encloses a small basal patch of white, its outer edge starts at inner sixth, and is indented in middle of wing, reaching dor- sum at inner third ; the middle fascia consists of three superimposed spots, the upper at middle of costa, its lower end pointed and touching the middle one which is oval and horizontal, the dorsal spot is before anal angles and well de- fined on inner side only. The outer semi-fascia is in the shape of a large rounded spot on outer third of costa and reaching to upper third of wing, between it and dorsum is a small shade of dark scales. The two inner fascia are somewhat over- cast with yellowish, and the outer spots with olivaceous gray. Between the inner and middle fasciae the ground color forms a distinctly outlined white fascia, with a few vertical strigulations of gray. Before the termen is a line of black scales, not reaching apex and below middle broken into three dots. Cilia grayish fus- cous, with a darker line at base.
Hindwing: pale brown, darker outwardly, cilia whitish and darker basal line. Underside yellowish-white mottled at apex.
Underside forewing: smoky brown, mottled with darker, costal spot repeated.
One (? specimen. Wellington, B. C, April, Rev. George W. Taylor.
Olethrentes deTOtana sp. nov.
Expanse 14 to 15 mm.
Head and palpi fawn-brown; antenna gray, brown at base; thorax reddish- purple; patagia lilaceous-gray and the same color at base of tuft; abdomen and legs pale-ochreous, latter faintly dusted with brown.
Forewing: blackish-bronzy -brown, overlaid with metallic-blue on inner half below costal spots and on dorsum before anal angle. In the middle of dorsum is a large rounded cream-white spot; the apical fifth of wing is cream-white, in- dented by a brown shade from apex, opposite the inner end of which is a round patch of metallic-blue; thus the white is nearly divided into two spots, the smaller, triangular one on costa before apex and the larger one lying within the lower half of termen. There is a dot of blue in the latter near its upper edge, and an oblique streak of blue crosses the dark apical shade from the costal spot before it. Over the ocellic area are shining white scales. Cilia brown at apex, white below middle.
Hindwing and underside both wings fuscous-brown.
Three specimens. Hastings, Fla., June 8th, A. T. Brown ; Ch. Harbor, Fla., March (Hulst collection), Dr. Dietz ; Florida, Prof. Fern aid.
Cotypes in Prof. Fernald's and my collection.
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Eiicosina panclaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 24 to 28 mm.
Head, palpi and thorax whitish-cinereous, speckled with brownish-fuscous; apical joint of palpi black; antenna cinereous; abdomen pale cinereous; legs whitish, dusted with fuscous.
Forewing: dark reddish-brown, heavily overlaid with white-tipped scales; the whitish color forms a wide fascia from middle of costa to dorsum ; its inner line angles outwardly to middle of wing, then obliquely inward to inner fourth of dorsum. The outer line is not clearly defined, but is as a shade from middle of costa to outer fourth of dorsum. Beyond this and parallel to it is a band of the darker color, outwardly edged with whitish scales; it curves inward slightly at end of cell and terminates in anal angle. On the outer third of costa are four obscure dark costal spots outlined with wliite. The ocellus consists of an irregu- lar cluster of slightly shining whitish scales. Cilia same as wing, preceded by an irregular line of white.
Hindwing: light smoky-fuscous; cilia paler and preceded by a darker band. Underside smoky-fuscous, strigulated with fuscous. Underside forewing smoky- fuscous, minutely dotted with whitish ; costa dotted with pale-ochreous and dark- brown spots.
Five specimens. Wilgus, Cochise Co., Ariz., Dr. Barnes ; Kerr- ville, Texas, Dr. Barnes.
Eucosma nandana sp. nov.
Expanse 26 to 30 mm.
Head: brownish-gray, speckled with whitish; palpi gray-black, speckled with whitish; antenna light fuscous; abdomen pale cinereous, speckled with light brown ; anal tuft reddish-brown ; legs whitish, powdered with brownish-fuscous.
Forewing: ochreous-gray ; the tips of many of the scales are white, giving a powdered appearance over the whole surface ; the ochreous-gray are replaced by blackish-brown scales in an obscurely defined band from inner third of dorsum to outer three-fifths of costa. This dark fascia is clearly defined on its outer edge, and is indented a quarter below costa. In some specimens the dark shade extends to base; in others it is lost before reaching the inner fourth. On the outer end of wing a similar darker line starts from near apex, obliquely, to end of cell in middle of wing, then angles outward, then inward to dorsal margin at outer fourth. Beyond this are some dark vertical strigulse. The dark lines are caused by the absence of the white tips to the scales. Cilia brown, thickly dotted with white.
Hindwing: pale fuscous in "J, , darker fuscous in 9; cilia fuscous, dotted with darker scales; underside pale cinereous; underside forewing smoky-brown.
Six specimens. Rounthwaite, July, Marmont; Regiua, Sept., Willing ; Chicago, 111. ; Iowa, Gillette, Acac. Cat., 142. Cotype in U. S, Nat. Mus.
Eucosma inandana sp. nov. Expanse 18-19 mm.
Head, thorax and antenna rusty brown ; palpi cream color, fuscous outwardly ; abdomen whitish-fuscous, tuft darker ; legs whitish-fuscous, dusted with brown.
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Forewin};: rusty brown, mottled vpitb darker brown on costa, the outer half of costa obliquely striped with reddish and pink lines, between these are lines of dull leaden scales, the longest extending from outer fourth of costa to middle of ternien. The ocellic spot contains two or three short black lines, the vertical side- bars are dull leaden. Cilia gray, powdered with black.
Hindwing: light fuscous, cilia whitish ; underside the same.
Underside forewing: smoky fuscous, ochreous-brown on costa, mottled with darker brown.
Four specimens. Montclair, N. J., July 1st, Light Trap ; Wash- ington, D. C, June, at light, A. Busck ; Plummer's Island, Md,, July 9th, A. Busck.
Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus.
Euco^ma laiidana sp. nov.
Expanse 23 mm.
Head, palpi and thorax black, finely speckled with whitish-gray; autennse fuscous; abdomen whitish-gray; mottled with fuscous; legs whitish, powdered with gray above and annulated with brownish fuscous on the tarsi.
Forewing: dark gray, evenly speckled all over with whitish. Cilia pale gray, speckled with whitish internally.
Hindwing: light smoky fuseous, with darker mottliugs around external edge, cilia whitish ; underside light ochreous-fuscous. mottled along costa with brown and a few dots of same color along outer margin.
Underside forewing: same as hind wing, but a shade more gray and less ochre ous, mottled with brown along costa and external margin.
Four specimens. Rouutiiwaite, Manitoba, Can., April 25ili, col- lected by L. E. Marmont; Aweme, Man., May 18th to June 12lh, Norman Griddle.
This species is unlike any Tortricid I have ever seen ; its very distinctive and unique color plan will make it easily recognizable.
Eucosiiia caiiariana sp. nov.
Expanse 28-34 mm.
Head: canary-yellow; palpi pale clay-brown; antennae same as palpi, yellow at base; thorax canary-yellow, somewhat paler in the middle and the ends of patagia; abdomen cream color; legs, pale clay-color, with a yellowish tinge.
Forewing: shining silvery-white, with two canary-yellow lines from base to terraen ; the upper line starts on costa at base, continues in a straight line to ter- meu, whei'e it curves up and ends at extreme apex ; the second line begins at the middle of base, continues in a slightly curved line below the fold to anal angle, at end of cell it sends an oblique spur up to the upper line; at the anal angle it continues up to the termen for a distance equal to its own width, then continues up through the cilia almost to the apex. These yellow lines are lightly dotted with brown on their outer ends. Cilia, except as noted, pale yellowish- cream. Male costal fold yellow.
Hindwing: pale fuscous, cilia white ; underside whitish.
Underside hindwing: smoky fuscous, cream color along costa.
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Eight specimens. Stockton, Utah, Aug. 1st to 11th, Tom Spal- ding ; Utah, July, O, C. Poling ; Southwestern Colorado, July 11th and 14th, W. E. Dietz ; Glenwood Springs, Colo., Aug., W. E. Dietz.
This species is closely allied to E. cramhitana AVlsra. The lines of the latter are Indian red ; the upper line ends in a strong fork, and the spur from lower to upper line is absent.
Rncosma fandana sp. iiov.
Expanse 32 mm.
Head and thorax olivaceous-yellow; palpi and antennte pale clay color; abdo- men silvery white, anal tuft pale clay; legs white, dusted with pale fuscous.
Forewing: a light olivaceous-yellow, with two silvery-white horizontal lines. The upper begins on costa at inner fourth and ends in apex, beyond the middle the costa along this line is edged with yellow. The second starts at base, and runs in nearly a straight line through middle of wing nearly to termen. at its outer end it turns upward and points towards apex. At the extreme base the white color spreads to dorsal margin. Cilia yellowish-cream.
Hind wing: fuscous, cilia white, clouded with fuscous; underside paler fuscous, white along costa.
Underside forewing: smoky fuscous, yellowish along costa and white below vein 16.
One specimen. Denver, Colo., Oslar.
Belongs in the same group as crambitana Wlsm. and canariana Kearf , but whereas in these two species the silvery white is the predominant color, in this one the reverse is the case.
Eucosiiia spaldingana sp. nov.
Expanse 14-20 mm.
Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen white; anteunae pale fuscous, with a whitish bloom; legs white, dusted with light brown.
Forewing: silvery-white, with two transverse narrow bands, and patch in api- cal end pale clay-yellow, rather heavily overlaid with Indian-red scales. The inner line starts from inner fourth of dorsum, and reaches costa at inner third, it follows costa to beyond half and again crosses wing, obliquely to dorsum, before anal angle, where it broadens out and covers the outer third of dorsum. From middle of wing at end of cell it sends a spur into apex, this broadens below apex into a large patch covering the upper two-thirds of outer fourth, with a few scattered scales continuing along termen to anal angle. On the costa, just before apex, the dark color encloses a small spot of white. The male costal fold is of the dark color and a small patch of same below it. Cilia white.
Hind wing: silvery-whitish-fuscous; underside the same, cilia white.
Underside forewing : pale clay-yellow, mottled with pale brown.
Fourteen specimens. Stockton, Utah, June 19th to Aug. 11th; all collected by Tom Spalding.
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Kucosiiia gandana sp. nov.
Expanse, 9 > ^3 mm.
Head and thorax pale yellow; palpi and antennse pale clay-yellow; abdomen white, with a faint yellowish reflection; legs cream color, dusted with darker clay-yellow.
Forewing: very pale yellow, without stripes or marks; a shade paler along costa and in outer fourtli beyond cell. Cilia the same.
Hindwing: white, finely checkered with very light fuscous, cilia white. Under- side the same.
Underside forewing: yellowish-fuscous.
One 9 . Denver, Colo., Sept. 10th, Oslar.
This species is of the same shape and general appearance as cram- bitana and cauariana. I would not venture to describe it from one 9 except that it can be easily recognized by its uniform wing col- oring without marks of any kind.
Kucosma liandana sp. nov.
Expanse 23-30 mm.
Head and thorax pale brown ; antennae pale brown, dusted with darker brown outwardly; antennae clay-yellow; abdomen and legs pale fuscous, latter dusted with light brown.
Forewing: clay-yellow, rather heavily overlaid with pale pinkish terra-cotta- brown. There are no well defined fasciae or spots ; the darker shade forms an obscure triangular patch, with base resting on dorsal margin between inner and outer fourths, the point of the triangle reaching top of cell a third from base. On the outer third are vertical irrorations of sliining clay-yellow. The edge of the costa is reticulated with the two shades. Cilia clay-yellow, inwardly edged with a slightly darker line.
Hindwing: pale clay-yellow, the veins overlaid with light terra cotta. Cilia whitish. Underside the same. ' Underside forewing; clay-yellow, reticulated with pale brown.
Five specimens. Stockton, Utah, July ; collected by Tom Spal- ding.
This species will go in the group of grandiflavana Wlsm. subfla- vana Wlsm. and larana Wlsm.
Eucusma kandana sp. nov.
Expanse 18-20 mm.
Head, palpi, antenna and thorax clay-yellow: abdomen whitish-yellow, tuft darker; legs pale clay-yellow.
Forewing: clay-yellow, reticulated along costa and outer third with very pale brown. There are several irregular vertical shining streaks of clay-yellow from costa before apex, two of which reach to anal angle and form the two vertical bars of an obscure ocellic spot, between and on each side of the bars and also in the apex are a few tiny dark biown dots. Cilia pale brown, dotted internally with dark brown.
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Hiiidwing: much darker than forewing, smoky brown, cilia pale brown; underside the same but a shade lighter.
Underside forewing: sams as upperside of hind wing, with the reticulations re- peated along the costa.
Six specimens. Stockton, Utah, Aug. 4th to 17th ; collected by Tom Spalding.
This species belongs with the irroratana Wlsm. and atomosana Wlsra. group.
£iicosina floridaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 18-22 mm.
Head, palpi and thorax white, with large spots of very pale terra cotta on the crest of the head, base of antenna, posterior end of thorax and end of patagia ; antenna whitish-fuscous; abdomen cinereous, anal tuft whitish-ochreous; legs pale terra cotta, dusted with fuscons.
Forewing: pale terra cotta, darker towards apex, lighter below costa, the ex- treme costa is a darker shade and profusely marked with white dots, the dots on the outer half are continued as lines of shining opalescent scales, from the outer fourth the line runs obliquely to termen below apex ; the line before this, from costa between half and outer third, is somewhat broken and runs obliquely, par- alelling the upper line, to vein 7, beyond end of cell, thence follows the vein to termen. Before the apex is a short vertical line, and dots of the shining whitish scales occur over the outer third of wing. The ocellic spot is large, whitish-gray, dotted with darker gray and blackish scales, inwardly the vertical bar of shining scales is irregular, the outer bar is missing, but a line of four or five dots of shining scales are in the outer edge of spot. Cilia gray, dotted with blackish.
Hind wing: light smoky fuscous, white above cell. Cilia gray-fuscous. Under- side both wings smoky fuscous.
Forewing: darker and mottled with pale ochreous along costa.
Seven specimens. Hastings, Fla., Oct. 6th to 15th ; collected by A. J. Brown.
This species will go in the group with cataclijstiana Walk.
Eucosma raiidana sp. nov.
Expanse 24-28 mm.
Head, palpi and thorax grayish-brown; antenna and abdomen fuscous; legs whitish powdered with light brown.
Forewing: light ocherous-brown, closely strigulated on costa and outer half of wing with vertical black lines. Ocellic spot very large, white, with three hori- zontal rows of five each quadrate spots, overlaying these black spots, on the inside, in the middle and the outer edge are short vertical bars of raised (curved over, flattened), leaden, shining scales. There are five short lines of these same scales from costa between end of male costal fold and apex, each ending in a white spot on extreme edge of costa, the line before apex is longest and paralell- ing termen, ends above the bar outlining the ocellic spot. Four smaller dots before the ocellic spot. Cilia white, atomized with black.
Hindwing: smoky fuscous, cilia whitish ; underside grayish-fuscous.
Underside forewing: dark smoky fuscous, with costal spots repeated in pale ochreous.
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Eight specimens. Denver, Colo., Clear Creek, Colo., June 16th ; all collected by E. J. Oslar.
This species is very much like E. circula Hbn., but the size is very much larger, and the costal and ocellic spots are somewhat differently arranged.
Eucosma saiidana sp. uov.
Expanse 19-24 mm.
Head : whitish clay-yellow: palpi white, dusted on outside with pale-clay yel- low; antenna pale gray; thorax whitish in front, clay-yellow in middle and gray behind; abdomen shining cinereous, tuft clay-yellow ; legs whitish, dusted with ochreous.
Forewing: ochreous-brown, inner half of costa, above cell, whitish, dotted with browu ; ocellic spot large, covering almost the entire outer fourth of wing, finely dotted with black in a large round spot, in the lower half are three horizontal black lines, crossed by three vertical bars of shining golden scales. From the outer half of costa are two long lines of shining scales, the inner runs obliquely outward to end of cell, then vertically downward inside the ocellic spot, but sepa- rated from latter by a line of ground color; the outer runs obliquely, outlining the ocellic spot above to ternien below apex. A few metallic dots on interior of wing. The outer half of costa is marked with small wedge-shaped whitish spots, separated by the brown ground color. Cilia gray, jiowdered with black dots.
Hind wing: pale gray, cilia whitish ; underside the same.
Underside forewing: ochreous gray.
Three specimens. Volga, S. Dak., W. E. Dietz ; Chimney Gulch, Golden, Colo., Sept. 3, E. J. Oslar.
Encosma reversana sp. nov.
Expanse 17-19 mm.
Head, thorax, palpi and abdomen white, shaded with pale brown on outer side of patagia and palpi; antenna white, finely annulated between joints with fus- cous; legs white, powdered with clay-yellow.
Forewing : white, with grayish-brown spots and semi-fascise ; below the costa these dark spots and bands all incline inward, that is, nearer the base on their lower ends and nearer the apex at their upper ends. There is an obscure patch of dark scales in middle of wing at base; from inner fourth of dorsal margin a fascia runs obliquely outward above middle of wing, broader at its upper end ; a band lies obliquely over end of cell, twice as long as wide and not touching either costal or dorsal margin ; on outer fourth of dorsum a short oblique patch borders inner side of ocellic spot; from apex is a short streak to middle of wing, broad- ening out below. The costa is marked with alternate white and brown dashes, the white dashes on outer half are geminate, and the pair before the apex curve downward and outward into termeu below apex. Ocellic spot obscure, a few dots of dark brown, bounded on each side by vertical bars of shining white scales. Cilia white, dotted with black.
Hind wing: yellowish-gray, cilia white; underside the same.
Underside forewing: smoky gray, costal spots repeated.
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Three specimens. San Antonio, Texas, Dr. Win. Barnes. This species much resembles E. atomosana Fern., but can readily be separated, as the direction of the strijies are reversed.
Eucosma briglitonana sp. uov.
Expanse 13-16 mm.
Head, palpi and thorax grayish-brown ; palpi, abdomen and legs fuscous.
Forewing : gray-brown ; a large dark brown spot on dorsum, between inner fourth and middle, extending to middle of wing, pointed on top, rounded on sides; a smaller spot of same shape and color on dorsum before angle; from the middle of costa an irregular narrow fascia goes obliquely to middle of wing at end of cell, sending a wavy line down to the dorsal spot before angle. Beyond this is a paler gray brown fascia, beginning on fascia as a germinate spot, broad- ening below until it involves all of the ocellic space. Beyond it on costa are three paler geminate streaks. A darker shade in apex. Cilia dark gray.
Hindwing: smoky fuscous, cilia brownish-gray; underside of both wings the same, with a dark spot in apex of forewing.
Seven specimens. New Brighton, Pa., July 29th to Aug. 10th ; all collected by F. A. Merrick.
Eucosma tandana sp. nov.
Expanse 20-22 mm.
Head, palpi, antenna and thorax grayish-brown, patagia whitish posteriorly; abdomen brownish-white; legs yellowish-white.
Forewings: grayish-brown, darker on the male fold, and the trace of a darker fascia from middle of costa; the costa in the outer half is faiutly strigulated with brown. These marks are all very faint and inconspicuous. There are two prominent dark brown spots; one before the middle of wing, resting on dorsum, its upper end touching fold, it is about as wide as long and slightly rounded on the sides; in one specimen a streak of brown is continued up above middle of wing and connecting with the obscure central fascia. The other spot is in the apical end of the wing ; it rests on costa before apex and extends down nearly to anal angle, it is nearly straight on its outer edge and convex on its inner edge, its length is twice as long as its width on costa, there is a narrow line of ground color between the upper two-thirds of its length and termen. Cilia gray-brown.
Hindwing: smoky brown, cilia paler; underside gray-brown, a shade darker along costa.
Underside forewing: smoky brown, spotted with dull ochreous along costa and termen.
Four specimens. Algonquin, 111., July 8th, Dr. Nason ; New Brighton, Pa., July 18th, F. A. Merrick ; Arlington Heights, 111., Aug. 15th, A. McElhose ; Iowa, Ac. Cat. U. S. Nat, Mus., 985, Gillette.
Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus,
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KncoMma Tandana sp. nov.
Expanse 12-16 nam.
Head, palpi and thorax wliitish to grayish-brown, apical joint palpi black; antennte whitish-gray; abdomen fuscous; legs whitish, powdered with brown.
Forewing: dull blackish-brown; obliquely striped with grayish-white along costa ; the line from outer fourth runs to termen beneath apex, the line from costa, immediately before apex, follows termen to below middle. The ocellus is above the anal angle and consists of two broken horizontal lines of gray and white. Between the middle of wing and dorsum are oblique strigulse of white, from the inner third to anal angle. Before this strigulation is a reddish-brown patch. Cilia gray-brown, dotted with pale fuscous. In some specimens these whitish lines are nearly obsolete, the entire surface of wing being a dull mottled blackish-brown.
Hind wing : dark smoky fuscous, cilia a shade paler; underside gray fuscous.
Underside forewing: smoky fuscous, fleeted with dull ochreous on costa.
Sixteen specimens. Hastings, Fla., March, April, and Oct. ; collected by A. J. Brown.
Eiicosnia ^randana sp. nov.
Expanse 17 mm.
Head and palpi ochreous-brown, blackish-brown at outer ends of tuft over eyes and outer ends of palpi ; antenna blackish-brown, faintly annulated with ochreous-brown between joints; thorax black-brown ; patagia ochreous-brown; abdomen blackish-fuscous, whitish beneath ; legs whitish on underside, heavily powdered with fuscous above.
Forewing: blackish-brown, more or less mottled with gray and ochreous scales ; beneath fold, in ocellic space and a small spot on costa before apex, grayish- ochreous. The ocellic spot contains three horizontal black lines, the vertical bars shining gray-white, the outer is broken. There is a conspicuous dark shade on fold from base to inner third, and beyond the outer end of it, above the gray- ochreous dorsal patch are a few white scales. From the costa beyond the male fold are four pairs of white dashes, becoming silvery metallic below costa; the inner pair send a broken line to the inner ocellic bar, the second pair send a line, which connects with a short line from the fourth pair, into the outer ocellic bar. There are two black dots below the fold, one close to base and the other about one-sixth from base. Cilia dark gray, dotted with black.
Hindwing: dark smoky brown, paler at base, cilia gray, underside smoky- brown.
Underside forewing: dark smoky brown ; costal spots repeated.
One % specimen. Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 25th; Miss Annette F. Braun (No. 164).
Eiicosma xaiidana sp. nov.
Expanse 12-17.5 mm.
Head, palpi, antenna and thorax gray; apical joint, palpi black; abdomen fus- cous ; legs gray, tarsi powdered with black.
Forewing: pale whitish-gray, with two narrow brown-black fascia; the inner from inner fifth of costa to inner fourth of dorsum widens out at middle of
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wing to three times its width above and narrows below middle to half the widest part; the outer starts from middle of costa and runs obliquely to dorsum before anal angle, the upper half is very narrow and convex outwardly, from middle to above fold it widens four times its width above but contracts slightly before reaching dorsum. On the ground color between base and first fascia are about six brown dots above fold and four below; between first and second fasciae are two brown dots on costa and two below them, and two faint lines on dorsum ; be- tween second fascia and apex are seven brown dots in costa and one in apex, each is duplicated below costa ; there is ati irregular row of brown dots on termen and a short vertical line of same from anal angle, on each side of which are one or two scattered dots. Cilia pale fuscous, preceded by darker line.
Hind wing: pale gray, cilia same, but shining; underside the same.
Underside forewing: smoky gray, costa faintly dotted with brown.
Nine specimens. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 6th to 26th ; collected by Miss Annette F. Braun.
Eiicosma yaiidana sp. nov.
Expanse 16-19 mm.
Head and antenna gray ; palpi pale gray ; thorax gray, speckled with brown ; abdomen grayish-fuscous, anal tuft pale yellow; legs gray,^tarsi annulated with brown.
Forewing: whitish-gray, lightly strigulated and dotted with fuscous. There is a semi-fascia from inner fourth of dorsal margin to middle of wing, with a small round dot above and below the fold. The middle fascia starts from middle of costa as a narrow brown line to end of cell where it widens out into a small patch of brown, then continues as a narrow line to outer fourth of dorsal margin. Be' tween these fascise is a faint line of brown from dorsum to above middle. There is a small rounded patch of lighter brown in the apex and between it and male costal fold are four or five darker brown oblique costal lines. Between veins 6 and 7 is a row of four brown dots, with a vertical line of brown below the inner and outer to the dorsum. A terminal line of brown. Cilia shining gray- ish-fuscous.
Hind wing: gray, darker at apex, cilia light shining gray above and beneath.
Underside forewing: smoky gray, costal spots repeated, whitish-gray and brown along termen.
Nine specimens. New Brighton, Pa., March 26th to April 11th ; collected by F. A. Merrick.
Eucosnia zaiidana sp. nov. Expanse 14-16 mm. «
Head, antenna, thorax and abdomen dark blackish-gray; palpi light gray, outer end of tuft and ai)ical joint black ; legs gray, dusted with dark brown.
Forewing: gray, mottled with darker shades of gray and brown. The lower half of wing between outer third and anal angle is whitish-gray, strigulated with oblique dark grayish-brown lines. The costa beyond the male costal fold is marked by six or seven brown-black dots, separated by gray. Beyond the cell on upper half of wing is a semi-circle of black dots, with the open side below. Cilia brownish-gray, preceded by a dark terminal line.
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Hind wing: smoky brown, cilia shining gray-brown, underside the same. Underside forewing: dull smoky brown, with dull ochreous spots ou costa.
Seven specimens. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 26th to May 7th ; collected by Miss Annette F. Braun.
Eiicosma bobana sp. uov.
Expanse 22-26 mm.
Head: pale clay-yellow; palpi same, dusted with fuscous outwardly, apical joint fuscous; autenua pale clay-yellow, the segments dusted with brown ; thorax pale clay-yellow, shaded with bright ochreous-brown in front and at base of patagia; thorax and legs whitish-gray, the latter dusted with light brown.
Forewing: alternate bands of bright ocherous and dark reddish-brown, these bands are broken and their direction changed at the middle of the wing, giving the surface a checkered appearance. The extreme base is narrowly white, fol- lowed by a wider ochreous band, then by a white band, marked below fold with an ochreous spot and ou upper vein of cell with a brown spur from the next outer fascia, the latter begins at inner fifth on costa as a blackish streak, becomes narrow below costa to middle of wing, then widens to dorsal margin which it reaches at inner quarter, below the costa it is ochreous and brown, outwardly edged with dark brown. It is followed by a broader ochreous fascia, interrupted just above middle by a spur from the succeeding dark fascia. The latter begins as a rich brown spot on costa to upper vein of cell, where it is cut by a horizon- tal streak of black and brown scales, the downward continuation of the fascia starts from outer end of this streak, and is rich brown, having a strong lobe on its outer edge. Beyond this, above middle of wing, is a large patch of ochre- ous and white scales, with two brown dots on costa. Beyond it is a subapical brown and black patch, triangular in shape, with a point touching costa, an inner spur below the yellow patch before it, and a curved streak along the lower half of termen, this latter streak becomes yellow shortly before the middle. On the lower half of outer fourth is a curved ocherous patch, with a small dash of fus- cous scales at anal angle. The ochreous patches and fascije are all outlined by white, and the brown patches usually outlined by black or darker brown. Cilia white, fuscous at apex, and two dashes of fuscous below apex.
Hindwing: pale fuscous, cilia white, underside whitish-gray, powdered with fuscous below costa.
Underside forewing: smoky fuscous, with costal spots repeated.
Three specimens. Salida, Colo., June 11th ; Southwestern Colo- rado, July 13th; Harris Co., Texas, July 5th. All from Dr. ^Y.
G. Dietz.
Eiicosina eocana sp. nov.
Expanse 19 mm.
Head : ochreous-brown, darker on sides and collar; palpi dull ochreous, outside and apex heavily dusted with blackish-gray ; thorax ochreous-brown, crossed by two narrow lines of whitish, outer ends of patagia and posterior end of thorax gray and white; antenna dark fuscous; abdomen shining gray, anal tuft clay- yellow; legs wiiitish, heavily overlaid with speckled gray and brown scales.
Forewing: soft Indian-red, or the tint known as old-rose, crossed by numerous
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vertical lines of shining gray raised scales; at the inner third there is a narrow transverse line of ochreous, and the ocellic patch is the same color, both edged with the gray lines. Between apex and first ochreons line are two other gray lines, somewhat broken ; the extreme base is gray, sending a streak around dor- sum to inner fourth. Between the ochreous fascia and ochreous ocellic spot is a broad, partly geminate band of gray. On the outer half of costa at end of each vein is a spot of gray. From the apex a gray line runs obliquely inward over vein 7, about half way to end of cell, then angles obliquely downward ending on ternien over vein 5, and enclosing a terminal patch of bright ochreous. The male costal fold is dark gray, with three or four whitish spots at the beginning of the inner gray lines. Cilia gray, cut with white at end of each vein.
Hind wing: smoky brown, cilia pale fuscous; underside gray, mottled with fus- cous below costa.
Underside forewing: smoky fuscous, whitish on termen, costal spots faintly repeated.
One % specimen. Tryon, jST. C, May 17th ; collected by W. F. Fiske.
Eiicosina soiiomana sp. nov.
Expanse 20 nnn.
Head: ])ale fawn; palpi pale fawn within, dark gray, speckled with whitish, without; outer joint black ; antenna leaden gray, thinly annulated with white; thorax grayish-fawn, base of patagia reddish-ochreous ; abdomen dark fuscous, anal tuft black ; legs pale fawn, dusted with blackish fuscous.
Forewing: coppery-red, darker on inner half, shading into coppery-ochreous at termen. There are two shining leaden-gray transverse fascia, the inner from inner fourth of costa to inner third of dorsum is composed of two pairs of lines, the inner edge deeply concave in the middle, and with some irregular lines of the same color in base, enclosing a round spot of the reddish ground color. The outer fascia begins on costa beyond middle as two long whitish dashes. Contracts at top of cell, below which is an irregular ring of darker leaden scales which con- nect with a whitish line to dorsum at outer fourth, with a spur to anal angle. The inner of a pair of white dashes on costa, before apex, sends a whiitish shin- ing line to middle of termen. Between this line and outer fascia the costa is marked with two white dashes and streaked with gray. Cilia white, with an outer edging of fuscous, and a dark fuscous basal line, below apex, which is inter- rupted by a white dash over each vein.
Hind wing: smoky gray, preceded by a darker line, following a paler basal line. Underside both wings the same, but forewing a shade darker and marked with white on costa, also white ciliate dashes repeated.
Three S and one 9. Sonoma Co., Cal., May ; Carmel-by-the- Sea, Monterey Co., Cal., April. All collected by Arthur H. Vachell.
Eiicosnia dodaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 16.5-24 mm.
Head: cinereous; palpi ashy-gray; antenna fuscous; thorax black, speckled with cinereous ; abdomen dark fuscous, lighter on side and tuft ; legs pale gray, dotted with fuscous.
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Forewing: light gray, with large spots and fascife of blackish-brown. The basal area extends in middle of wing to inner fourth, receding to costa and dor- sum, it is black outwardly, gray towards base; on inner third of costa is a large black spot and another before anal angle on dorsum, a third one is between these two in the middle of wing over outer third of cell, the three forming a broken fascia. On the costa are three large black spots, with a fourth in apex, which enlarges below, then contracts and follows termen to anal angle. The gray areas between these dark spots are vertically strigulated with blackish-brown. This description is from the most intensely marked specimen, in others, the dark spots are contracted and the gray color predominates, sometimes dividing the spots, and in others the large dark spots are almost lost. Cilia yellowish-gray, dusted with fuscous.
Hind wing: dark gray, cilia paler; underside both wings a uniform gray, with costal spots repeated.
Ten specimens. Southwestern Colorado, July 13th, Dr. W. G. Dietz ; Colorado, Dyar and Caudell. Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus.
Eucosma fofaiia sp. uov.
Expanse 21 mm.
Head, palpi and thorax dark ochreous-gray, heavily dusted with fuscous, and dotted with black on patagia ; antenna dark fuscous ; abdomen grayish fuscous, tuft ochreous-fuscous; legs gray, banded with white and powdered with dark fuscous.
Forewing: whitish-gray, spotted and strigulated with black-brown. There is an obscure dark fascia from middle of costa obliquely towards anal angle, it is well defined only in upper third. There are four rather large black dots on costa beyond it, the fourth being in the apex ; below the second of these dots are two snperimposed irregular rings, each composed of five or six dark dots; below the third is another such ring, and below it a line of dots before termen above anal angle. The basal area is not definitely defined, all of the inner half of wing is an irregular mass of large and small dots on the whitish-gray ground. Cilia yel- lowish-gray, preceded by a darker line.
Hind wing: smoky gray, cilia the same, but tips of scales whitish ; underside yellowish-gray.
Underside forewing: yellowish-gray, dark spots repeated along costa, and rows of dark dots between the veins beyond the cell.
One S specimen. Berthoud Pass, Colo., Aug. 22d ; collected by A. J. Snyder.
This species strongly resembles dodana Kearf'., and may prove to be an extreme variety of it. There is a certain formation of the markings, however, that leads me to believe it is distinct.
Eucosina hohaiia sp. nov. Expanse 20-22 mm. ,
Head yellowish-gray; palpi yellowish-gray, with a darker streak on lower, outer side of tuft; antenna gray, annulated above with paler gray ; thorax gray,
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finely dusted with darker gray ; abdomen fuscous, anal tuft yellow ; legs ciner- eous, heavily dusted with blackish-fuscous.
Forewing: whitish-gray, rather evenly dusted and dotted all over with black- ish-brown ; the costa is evenly marked with dark dots, about twelve beyond male costal fold, the outer ones are the largest ; the dot beyond the middle and one on outer third are followed below by short lines of dots, opposite them on dorsum, two strigulae rise almost to middle; between each pair of these the ground color is rather free from dark dots and appears lighter. There is an obscure shade from apex to lower end of cell, it widens out in the middle above and below, there is a similar but smaller shade in the middle of the wing. There is a whit- ish preciliate line; cilia fuscous, extreme tips whitish.
Hindwing: above and beneath light yellowish-gray, cilia same.
Underside forewing: smoky fuscous, darker spots on costa.
Two specimens. Mt. Piran, Alberta, Aug. 17th ; Dr. Wm. Barnes.
Encosina kokana sp. nov.
Expanse 20-21 mm.
Head, palpi, antenna and thorax gray, heavily dotted with fuscous; abdomen fuscous; legs pale clay-yellow, powdered with brown.
Forewing: whitish-gray, shaded with brown on interior of wing from base to end of cell. On outer half of costa are five flattened streaks of brown, from each of which is a line of brown below, the two interior join and run outward over vein 7, from the third and fourth the lines join a third below costa and continue as one into anal angle, the outer spot, before apex, is rounded, and has no line from it. Inside the termen is a brown line slightly concave towards its outer side. Cilia gray, dotted with fuscous-brown.
Hindwing: smoky gray, cilia paler, underside yellowish-gray.
Underside forewing: dark smoky gray, lightly dotted with dull ochreous along costa.
Two specimens. Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 3rd, Miss Annette F. Braun ; Scranton, Pa., Oct. 8th, A. E. Lister.
The Scranton specimen is much lighter than the description, the lines in the outer third being obsolete and the brown shade over in- terior less dark.
Eucosnia lolana sp. nov.
Head : yellowish-brown, lighter over eyes and in front ; palpi yellowish brown, dark brown on outside; antenna cinereous, finely annulated with black ; thorax dark brown, yellowish posteriorly and ends of patagia ; abdomen fuscous, paler at outer ends of joints, tuft yellowish ; legs cinereous, powdered and banded with dark brown.
Forewing: dark brown or black, heavily overlaid with ochreous-brown scales; there is a conspicuous white fascia from inner fourth of costa to inner third of dorsum, it is concave on its inner edge and slightly convex on the outer with a short spur a third from dorsum. There are three ln>own dots on costa of outer third of wing, enclosed by a cream-white patch which connects with the cream- white ocellic spot, forming an outer white fascia. There is a row of black dots
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Oil eaf.li side of tliis outer fasciia, aud a few on the sides of the inner and many others in the dark ground color between the fascia and in basal area. There is a short vertical bar of leaden scales through the ocellic spot, and a few scales of the same color are scattered over the apical fourth. Cilia light fuscous, preceded by a darker line.
Hiiidwing and underside of both wings very dark smoky brown, cilia pale fuscous, costal spots repeated.
Two specimens; Colorado, Gillette aud Dyar and Caudell. Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus.
Eiicosnia inoinaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 22 mm.
Head and palpi clay-yellow, clouded with smoky black on bases of antennae, tips of scales on collar, outer end of palpi and a spot of the same on upperside of second joint of palpi near its base; thorax black, mottled with gray; abdomen white, at end of each segment fuscous between ; legs white, banded and powdered with black.
Forewing: white, lightly strigulated with pale fuscous; there is an obscure pale fuscous fascia at inner fourth, and much broader across wing beyond middle, its inner edge starts from before middle of costa and goes in a straight line obliquely to within a third of dorsum where it angles inward and reaches dor- sum at outer third ; the outer edge starts from outer third of costa and curves unevenly to anal angle. There is a narrow broken fascia from a quadrate black spot on costa before apex, which divides in the middle of wing, one limb follow- ing the termen and the other to anal angle. There is a lunate brown apical spot extending into the cilia as black scales. The costal edge is white, with numerous black dashes for its entire length. Cilia below apex leaden-gray, cut with three or four white dashes.
Hindwing: smoky brown, white above cell, cilia leaden, white outwardly; underside the same, but a shade paler.
Underside forewing: smoky brown, with costal and ciliate marks repeated.
One % specimen ; Yuma Co., Ariz., desert, April lOtli, received from J. B. Smith.
Eucosma nonaiiii sp. nov.
Expanse 24 mm.
Head and palpi white, shaded with black over the eyes and on the sides of the palpi ; antenna pale fuscous; thorax white, heavily dotted with black at base of patagia ; abdomen fuscous; legs whitish, banded and dusted with black.
Forewing: white, powdered with black and olivaceous scales. A dark shade runs through middle of wing from base to apex. Between inner third and mid- dle of dorsum a white line goes obliquely outward to above middle of wing, it is bounded on the inside by a line of black scales; on each side of it there is a short line of black in the fold. There is a row of black dots on outer half of dorsum. The costa is sparsely marked with small black dots and dashes its whole length. The ocellic spot is obscure, defined on inner side by a short vertical bar of shining whitish scales. Cilia white, fuscous at apex and several streaks of fuscous and black scales below apex.
Hindwing: light smoky fuscous, white above cell, cilia whitish ; underside pale gray, a few black dots below costa and in apex.
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Uiiilerside forewing: smoky fuscous, wliitish on costa, dotted with brown, white below fold.
One specimei], Pueblo, Colo., H. W. Nash.
Eiicosma popana sp. nov.
Expanse 15-18.5 nun.
Head, palpi and thorax white, dotted with black ; a spot of black on upper side towards base and outside towards apex of second joint of palpi ; antenna whitish ; abdomen whitish, anal tuft cinereous ; leg:s pale gray, dusted with brown.
Forewing: white, with fascia and spots of blackish-brown. An oblique fascia from inner third of dorsum to middle of wing, between it and base several wavy lines from dorsum to middle. At anal angle a triangular spot with its apex above middle. An oblique shade below costa to middle, over end of cell ; a spur from its outer end joins another shade which runs below costal marks and into apex. Before apex, in outer half, are four triangular costal spots, on inner half of costa numerous small dots. The dark spots are all of blackish scales tippped with white; giving them a speckled appearance. Ocellic spot shining cream color, divided by a narrow brown vertical line, from its upper edge a narrow white line follows termen to apex. Cilia speckled white and black.
Hindwing: pale fuscous, darker at apex, cilia paler, underside the same.
Underside forewiiig: darker fuscous, whitish on costa, with dark costal marks repeated.
Twenty-seven specimens; Stockton, Utah, June 1st to Aug. 8th ; collected by Tom Spalding.
Eucosma rorana sp. nov.
Expanse 15-20 mm.
Head: clay-yellow, a streak of light brown across the middle; palpi clay-yel- low, a spot of fuscous above on outside of tuft and at end of tuft below, apical joint fuscous; antenna whitish ; thorax white, mottled with light brown ; abdo- men fuscous, anal tuft clay-yellow; legs whitish, dusted and banded with black.
Forewing: white, with bands and spots of blackish-brown. The extreme base is white, strigulated with brown, merging into dark brown at its outer edge, which is obsolete on costa, extends nearly to inner third at middle in the form of a rounded spot, and to inner fouith on dorsum as another spot, the two being separated by a pale shade. There is a well-defined dark fascia from midddle of costa to dorsum before angle, it is deeply indented, by the intervening white fascia, on its inner edge a tiiird above dorsum. Beyond it is the ocellic spot which is a well-defined rectangle of shining cream-white scales, divided by a dark ver- tical line and two black lines above. Costa before middle is marked with short dashes of brown and white; beyond middle, with four geminate oblique wnite lines on brown ground, the inner pair of lines end under the beginning of a third pair, the second and third pair unite and end under the fourth pair, ("ilia speckled brown on white.
Hindwing: smoky fuscous, cilia paler, beneath the same but a spade paler.
Underside forewing: darker smoky fuscous, costal marks repeated.
Six specimens ; Stockton, Utah, June 29th to July 3d ; Tom Spalding.
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Eiicosnia sosana sp. nov.
Expanse 16-19 mm.
Head, antenna and palpi pale clay-yellow, latter dusted with a shade darker externally; thorax clay-yellow, atomized with pale fuscous; abdomen and legs clay-yellow, latter handed and dusted with brown.
Forewing: clay-yellow, with basal area, one broad fascia and a shade on upper third of wing of a light olivaceous fuscous. This darker color is nearly uniform wherever it occurs, and is composed of olivaceous fuscous scales, with clay-yellow tips, giving an atomized or powdered appearance. The upper third of wing is of this darker shade, interrupted on the inner half of costa by five or six clay-yellow geminate dashes, those close to base are somewhat obscuie, and in the outer half of costa by four strongly-defined clay-yellow geminate dashes; the dark shade between these outer dashes are somewhat ochreous below the costa ; the outer dash of the second pair and inner dash of the third pair join together below costa and form a V, the lower point is tipped with golden-metallic scales; the outer dash of the third pair is prolonged beneath the fouith pair, and its lower half is leaden-metallic. From the middle of the dorsal margin a broad fascia of clay- yellow, slightly oblique, extends to upper third of wing, it is broader on dorsum than above, a horizontal line of yellow leaves it near upper end and lies below the first and second pair of geminate streaks in outer half of costa. The ocellic spot is large, clay-yellow scales, slightly shining, with in some specimens a hori- zontal black dash in middle and another near upper edge, two black dots occur on before the upper end of ocellic spot in other specimens. Cilia fuscous out- wardly, speckled within.
Hind wing: light brownish-fuscous, cilia whitish fuscous; underside grayish, shaded with light brownish-fuscous below costa.
Underside forewing: smoky brown, costal spots repeated, yellowish before ter- men, with very dark terminal line.
Eight specimens ; Stockton, Utah, May 23d to Aug. 2d ; col- lected by Tom Spalding.
Eucosma totana sp. nov.
Expanse 14-19 mm.
Head, palpi, antenna, thorax, abdomen and legs ashy-white, outside of palpi shaded with pale fuscous, and dots of the same color on patagia, legs banded and powdered with pale fuscous.
Forewing: ashy-gray, lightly marked with brown shades, varying from light brown to blackish-brown. There is a dark shade through middle of wing, angu- lated at inner third obliquely inward toward dorsum, and forming the outer edge of basal area, but only defined in the middle of wing; a few dark dots con- nect this shade along middle of wing with a similar dark shade between end of cell and termen above middle of wing. The ocellic spot is concolorous, but with shining scales on sides and two or three black horizontal lines; before this spot on dorsum, and outlining it internally, is a small triangular dark spot. On the male costal fold are four or five dark dashes, between the fold and middle, two or three dark lines, one of which is as long as a third the width of wing ; beyond the middle are three large dark spots, between each two a slender dark line; an oblique dark dash is in the apex. There are several dark dots below fold on internal third. Cilia white, dotted with gray internally and externally.
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Hind wing: pale fuscous, cilia whitish ; underside the same, with a few fuscous dots in apex.
Underside forewing: darker, brownish-fuscous, with costal spots repeated and a pale line before the darker terminal line.
Five specimens : Stockton, Utah, July 1st to Sept. 1st, Tom Spal- ding ; South Utah, July, O. C. Poling.
Eucosma Tovana sp. nov. Expanse 16-23 mm.
Head : pale clay-yellow, with a few brown scales over eyes and in front; palpi cream-white, with two brown spots on side of brush above, outward end of brush more or less tinged with fuscous, apical joint black, with a tiny dot of whitish at extreme end ; thorax white, with two brownish niottlings across front and mid- dle; base of patagia dark brown ; abdomen and legs pale yellowish-white, latter banded and dusted with brown ; antenna white, finely ringed with dark brown.
Forewing: white; the markings are blackish-brown. There is a strigulation of dark scales in the base succeeded by a narrow while fascia, beyond which is a wider dark fascia, the outer edge of which starts from inner fourth of costa and is slightly oblique to fold, it broadens at fold and is then straight to dorsum ; be- yond it is a white fascia of about equal width, sharply defined inwardly. In the middle of costa is an oblong dark spot, its lower end reaching to middle of wing, beyond it, covering end of cell in middle of wing, is a rounded dark spot, below the latter on dorsal margin is a pair of rounded spots; these spots form a dark fascia from middle of costa to dorsal margin before the ocellus, but they are sep- arated by white extensions of the white fascia before them. There is a wavy narrower dark fascia from costa at outer fifth to middle of termen.
Beyond the base in each of the white and dark fascise are three dark dashes on costa, and on the outer half are three large dark spots and as many narrow ones, with a large one in apex. The ocellus is white, with a few shining scales at side and two black dots on inner edge. The dark fascia and spots are usually out- lined in blackish-brown, with strigulations of the same color, on a paler brown ground. Cilia white, preceded by a gray line, and with the gray cutting into apex and below apex.
Hindwing: pale fuscous, cilia a shade paler; underside the same.
Underside forewing: smoky fuscous, costal spots repeated.
Thirteen specimens: Stockton, Utah, Aug. 2d to Sept. 3d, Tom Spalding; Bear Creek, Morrison, Colo., E. J. Oslar ; Yuma Co., Afiz., desert, March 26th, from J. B. Smith ; Glenwood Springs, Colo., Aug. 24th, Dr. Barnes; Amarillo, Tex., Aug. 30th, Cockerell.
Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus.
This species is close to E. shastana Wlsm. and E. biquadrana
Wlsra.
Eacosma subiuTJcta sp. nov.
Expanse 30 mm.
Head and thorax creamy-white, patagia pure white; palpi creamy-white, dusted with fuscous externally ; antenna yellowish-white; abdomen light gray, tuft ochreous-gray ; legs white, dusted with brownish-fuscous.
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Forewing: pure white, this ground color occurs in a broad fascia in middle of wing from dorsal margin to above middle, it narrows above the middle of wing and the upper third is overlaid with fuscous strigulations from costa ; there is a white patch on dorsum at base below fold. There is an obscure fuscous fascia from inner fourth of costa, curving inward below middle to inner fifth of dor- sum, it is marked in the middle of wing by a dentate line of black-brown scales. A fuscous fascia crosses wing from beyond middle of costa to dorsal margin, its inner edge is obliquely outward to middle of wing, then slightly inward to dor- sum, it covers the outer third of dorsum. Beyond it on costa is a white patch in which are three dark brown dots, and a larger one in apex, between each two is a tiny brown dash. The ocellus is large, covering the area between the dark fascia and termen, it is mottled white and fuscous, with several small clusters of black scales on the inner side; above it are two curious characters in black and brown scales, the outer like the small letter h, and the inner like an inverted L. The cilia is mottled brown and fuscous.
Hind wing: whitish-brown, darker at apex; cilia white, with an outer and iuner fuscous line; underside whitish, streaked with fuscous below costa, from base to apex.
Underside forewing: mottled white and fuscous, principally white below fold, costal dots repeated, cilia preceded by a white line and white dashes at veins 16 and 4.
Williams, Ariz.
Type in iny collection ; other speciniens iu U. S. Nat. Mus.
These specimens in the National Museum have been incorrectly identified as E. invicta Wlsm. While their general appearance is similar, they can easily be separated by the Indian -red head and palpi of invicta. Have thirteen specimens of the latter.
EMCOsma palousaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 20-24 mm.
Head and thorax very pale ochre. Palpi same internally stained with fuscous on outsides; tuft on second joint long and loosely scaled, extending beyond apex below and concealing outer joint, except the extreme tip visible from above; length beyond head a little more than the thickness of head. Antennae white, annulated with fuscous. Abdomen whitish, end of anal tuft stained with light fuscous. Legs pale ochreous.
Forewing: costa very slightly arched; apex shortly rounded ; termen straight from 7 to 3; male costal fold, less than a quarter, narrow, appressed, scales rough- ened.
Color: very pale ochreous, with basal and dorsal spots and streaks on costa and in apical portion of a light brownish-ochreous. On dorsum, one quarter from base, a narrow fascia arises, continuing obliquely with parallel sides to upper edge of cell ; the basal area enclosed is ground color, and beyond this semi-fascia is a broad band of ground color, outwardly defined on lower half by a brown spot on dorsum before angle, this spot is broadest on dorsum and has a hump above on its outer half, altogether about one-third of width of wing. The costal fold is brown, sprinkled with fuscous; the costa beyond fold is evenly marked with about fifteen light brown spots, the three or four before middle are short
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oblique dashes; at the middle the dash continues obliquely to top of cell ; in the outer third the streaks continue obliquely across the wing, the inner one to the anal angle, but very often broken ; the second beyond this is enlarged into a flattened subapieal spot, then continuing as a line into termen above angle ; above and beyond this the streak before apex crosses to termen below apex. In the apex is a rather large spot, darker than any of the costal dashes. Ocellic patch illy defined ; a rather large irregular area of shining ochreish scales, enclosing a brown spot, in the center of which are two dark brown dots, vertical to each other. The pale ground color is more or less strigulated with the darker shade of brown. Cilia ground color, heavily dotted with darker fuscous, with a whiter streak above middle, above and behind angle.
Hindwing : light smoky fuscous, cilia paler ; underside same but lighter.
Underside forewing : light cinerefms-fuscous, a large dark fuscous apical spot. Cilia dirty fuscous.
Five specimens ; Pullman, Wash., July 11th, Aug. 10th, and Sept. 18th. One bearing label " Wash. Exp. Sta. No. 533 ; col- lected by C. V. Piper; and five specimens, Los Angeles, Cai., Aug. and Oct., "Through C. V. Riley." These last five are much more heavily overlaid with dark brown ; they are also larger, the females expanding 24 mm. and males 20 mm.
Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus.
Knco!«nia inimaciilana sp. nov.
Expanse, % , 26-28 mm. ; J , 22-27 mm.
Head, palpi, thorax, forewings above, abdomen and legs very light ochreish, with a pinkish tinge. The pink shade is more intense on outside of palpi, front surfaces of anterior legs and around eyes. Palpi with rather long scales project- ing in front of apex below, the point of which is only visible from above and projecting nearly twice thickness of head beyond it; very moderate crest on head.
Forewing: including cilia pale pinkish-ochraceous. Male costal fold narrow, appressed, about one-fifth length of wing, rather a darker shade of pink than balance of wing, with a narrow costal shade of ochreous, this streak extending almost to apex along extreme edge of costa. No marks, lines or dashes either on wing or costa.
Hindwing: light ocbreish-fuscous, cilia bleached straw color.
Forewing beneath: shining light yellowish-fuscous, cilia paler and stained with pink at apex and below middle.
Underside hindwing : same color but a shade paler.
Four specimens: two male and three female; Pullman, Wash., Aug. 9th to 24th ; collected by C. V. Piper. One specimen bears an extra label reading " Wash. Exp. Sta. No. 515."
Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus.
The shape of the wings of this species and the general structural appearance is like Eucosma crambitana Wlsm., and I would place it in the list following the group with silver or white bars.
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Eiicosma johiisoiiaua sp. uov.
Expanse 14-15 mm.
Head: with compact tuft between eyes and projecting forward, rounded on top, scales of moderate length ; color dull ochre, suffused with pink back of and beneath eyes. Palpi with flattened compressed tuft on top largest about middle of second joints, thence rounded to outer joint, the tip of which is well exposed ; color: salmon-pink, outer joint darker and tipped with ochre. Antennse simple in male and female, grayish-fuscous, suffused with pink, annulations darker. Thorax and patagia salmon-pink, fading into ochreous posteriorly. Abdomen and legs pale ochreish, anterior tibia pink in front.
Forewing: costa nearly straight, very slightly and evenly arched, apex rounded, ternien straight to 3, angle rounded, dorsum straight. Male costal fold little more than one-third length of ring, narrow, appressed. Pale ochreish, shaded with salmon-pink along costa, and a well-defined basal patch of this color. The basal patch of pink is most pronounced on dorsal half of wing and extends to beyond inner third, it is outwardly defined by a narrow band of very dark brown and black scales from dorsal margin to middle of wing, slightly oblique inwardly (i. e. nearer base at middle that at dorsum). A well-defined band of pink from base to apex on costa and extending down to upper vein of cell and following line of 7 into apex. A triangular sliade of ochreish-pink is below this band in outer half; this shade is continued as a narrow line curving above ocellic spot and enlarging on termen, between apex and ocellic spot, into a smaller tri- angular spot. Ocellic spot large, rounded, occupying half width of wing; pale ochreish, crossed by three slightly shining, whitish, vertical lines, the outer curves inward at the top and there joins the inner. A few blackish scales on the lower ends of each of these lines, and a few scattered blackish scales above ocellic spot. Cilia very pale ochreish, with a double line of black scales from below apex to above anal angle. The costa is not marked with any distinct lines, but it as well as the whole of the wing is very faintly mottled with scales slightly darker or slightly lighter than the prevailing shades. In female specimens the blackish dorsal semi-fascia is broader and there are more separate black scales in the ocellic patch and above it.
Hindwing: whitish-fuscous, shading into smoky fuscous at apex and termen. Cilia white, preceded by a dark fuscous, then by a narrow whitish line.
Forewing: beneath fuscous, pink along costa, whitish below cell and 2, cilia gray.
Hindwing: beneath pale fuscous or light gray, cilia whitish.
Five specimens : one female, Seattle, Wash,, red ink number 27 ; collected by O. B. Johnson ; one female, Victoria, B. C, Rev. Geo. W. Taylor; one male and one female, Henry Edwards' collection, No. 14,720, and bearing small labels "3844 Nevada"; one male, Henry Edwards' collection, Vancouver Island.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.
Kucosma liopkinsana sp. uov.
Expanse 14.517 mm.
Head, palpi and thorax pale greenish. Head with flattened tuft or crown, above eyes and smaller tuft above face between base of antennse; a few darker fuscous scales on top of head. Palpi : tufts flattened, compressed, moderate,
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speckled with black, except on inner sides; outer joint half as long as second, exposed, dark at base. Antennse slightly dentate, whitish-green, annulated with black. Thorax more of a solid pale green, patagia whitish green. Abdomen light fuscous, segments darker anteriorly, anal tuft cinereous. Legs light gray or pale fuscous, marked with blackish-brown on anterior tibia, annulations on anterior tarsi and a spot of same on posterior tibial tufts.
Forewing: costa slightly and evenly arched, male costal fold nearly half length of wing, moderate in width. Apex rounded, terraen slightly concave between 3 and 7; dorsum slightly rounded. Color: whitish-gray, overlaid with shades and lines of pale green, fuscous and black. A median spot of black at base with green center; an oblique black dash on inner third of dorsum to middle, defining basal area, above it, obliquely inwardly, a shade of greenish fuscous, not reaching costa ; a quadrate dark spot on dorsum before angle, this spot is slightly oblique, is out- lined inwardly and outwardly with black, between these lines it is mottled green, whitish and gray. Between this spot and inner dorsal dash the ground color is paler and forms a light fascia on lower half, but not defined above middle. Costal fold marked with eight inwardly oblique short black dashes. Beyond fold, costa is marked with four quadrate dark spots, each outlined with black and greenish between the black lines, the third spot before apex sends an oblique black line into ternien below apex, and an oblique line of the same color from inner spot obliquely to dorsal quadrate spot. A preciliate row of five green- ish spots, each outwardly outlined with black. A cluster of green scales above dorsum in pale fascia between the two dark dorsal spots and a similar cluster above ocellic space. The ocellic spot is not defined. An obscure, inwardly- oblique, blackish shade from costa spot before apex towards quadrate spot on dor- sum, ending abruptly at vein 7, and separated from the dorsal spot by ground color. In very strongly marked specimens, no doubt these spots may appear as a blackish, interrupted fascia. Dorsal margin maiked with seven or eight spots of fuscous, greenish and black. Cilia long, gray, speckled with fuscous.
Hindwing: cinereous gray, darker at apex and before termen, cilia paler.
Forewing: beneath blackish-fuscous, streaked with gray along costa and ter- men, cilia gray, with five or six small round dark gray dots.
Underside hindwing: pale shining gray, cilia same. This description is prin- cipally from the female, in which the black lines and scales are the more pro- nounced than in the males, the black of the female is more of a dark fuscous, and there are more of the greenish scales scattered over the ground color. There seems to be no difference in the position and shape of spots, lines and fascia.
One male, one female : Hoquiam, Wash. ; bred from Picea sitch- ensis; breeding labels "2119a. Hopk., U. S." and 40,370' Hopk. U. S. ;" Burke, collector. The food plant label of the first bears an '? mark. One male, same locality and collector, labelled "July 21, 1904, flying."
Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mas.
Tliiodia radiatana Wlsm. and allied species. The little group of species, including radiatana Wlsm., /onHOsa?ia G\em., ferruginana Fern., and aspidiscana Hbn. have been hopelessly
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mixed in every collection I have seen, which is partly accounted for by reason of the fact that the females are usually so unlike the males that it has been easier to refer them to another species than to asso- ciate them together. I have been successful in accumulating very long series of both sexes of each species, including four new species which are described below, and the following notes will doubtless be helpful in arranging them hereafter. For the purpose of compari- son the males and females are treated under different heads.
T. radiataiist Wlsra. %. — Forewing: whitish-fawn color, with a brown- uchveish streak from base to termeii below apex, the veins beyond cell outlined with the same color, ocellus not well developed.
Hiudwing: light fuscous-brown.
T. essexaiiH. Kearf. %. — Forewing: paler than radintHna, more of a bleached straw color, median brown streak darker, veins beyond cell not dis- tinctly outlined with brown, ocellic spot well defined and encircled by brown.
Hind wing: gray fuscous.
T. unibrastriana Kearf. %. — Forewing: a shade darker than radiatoin, median streak obscure, the entire outer third suffused with brown-ochreish, ex- cept the costal spot area, ocellus not strongly defined.
Hindwing: dark smoky brown.
T. roseoterininana Kearf. % . — Forewing: similar to umbristriana, but a paler brighter color, median streak nearly or quite obsolete, suffusion in outer third of a bright burnt-sienna shade, ocellus not distinct.
Hindwing: paler than umbristriana, or the same shade as radiafana.
T. awemeaiia Kearf. %. — Forewing: like a diminutive distinctana, but darker, median streak broader and to middle of wing only. Hindwing: light fuscous brown, similar to radiaiana.
T. fVrrnginana Fern. %. — Forewing: reddish-ochreous, paler at base. This is the smallest in both sexes of the series.
T. f'orinosana Clem. %. — Forewing: inner two-thirds blackish-brown, outer third ochreous, costal metallic streaks do not connect with ocellus. Hindwing: dark smoky brown.
T. aspidicana Hbn. %. — Forewing: similar to /orniosana, but less ochre- ous in outer third, and a strong metallic line from costa to inner metallic bar of ocellus. I have five European specimens of this species, the name of which has been so frequently applied to Ameiican specimens, I think erroneously, as I have never seen an American specimen having all of the characters common to the European.
T. radiatana Wlsm. 9- — Forewing: brownish-ochreous, with the median streak of a darker brown, ocellus not distinct. Hindwing: darker brown.
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T. essexana. Kearf. J- — Forewing: inner third brownish ochreous, outer third darker brown, ciliate edge gray, ocellus much more distinct than in rudia- tana.
Hindwiug: reddish-brown, lighter and brighter than radiafana.
T. unibrastriana Kearf. 9-— F^rcwing: lighter ochreous-brown than either of the above two, cilia ochreous. Hind wing : as dark as radiatana.
T. rosieoteriiiiiiana Kearf. 9- — Forewing: darker than Mjnftri.s/riana. Hind wing: darker, cilia more ochreous.
T. aweineana Kearf. 9.— Forewing: very much like % formosana. Hind wing: darker than any of the preceding, cilia whitish.
T. ferr II gin an a Fern. 9- — Forewing and hindwing: very little different from its male.
T. aspidiscana Hbn. 9-— Forewing: like the male, hindwing much darker.
The most common mi-stake in identification has been to name all of the pale fawn or straw-colored males as radiatana and all of the reddish females as ferruginana, notwithstanding they are nearly double the size of the latter ; and sometimes the females of radiatana have been named as female formosana. Formosana, in its turn, or? more frequently, the males, are usually named aspidiscana.
Thiodia essexana sp. nov.
%, . — Expanse 20-26 mm.
Head and palpi speckled gray, latter palei' internally ; thorax pale straw, with brown central and lateral streaks, patagia brown ; antenna light grayish fuscous ; abdomen fuscous, anal tuft paler; legs ochreous-gray, dusted with brown.
Forewing: bleached straw color, with a brown streak from base near dorsum to outer margin, it spreads there and circles the ocellus on its outer and lower edge, terminating in a large spot on dorsum before ocellus; from its outer end a spur goes up into apex. The ocellus is nearly round, and its pale straw color, well defined by the brown which surrounds it on all sides, except a small distance on its inner edge, where it connects with the same shade of the lower third of wing; the scales on the sides of the ocellic spot are slightly shining, and it is shaded with slightly darker scales over the veins which are beneath it. The outer two-fifths of costa contains three light brown dashes, outlined by paler, somewhat shining straw color lines, running together in a line parallel to costa, and concave above the ocellic spot. Cilia shining leaden-gray, with an internal line speckled fuscous and gray.
Hindwing: grayish-fuscous, darker around edges, cilia whitish-fuscous, with a dark basal line and a darker intermediate line ; underside: ochreous- fuscous, dashes Below costa and terminal line.
Underside forewing: coppery-fuscous, fawn along costa and gray along termen, straw color below fold.
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9 ■ — Expanse 17-22 mm.
Forewiiig: brownish or dark reddish-ochreous, a slightly darker median shade from base running into the blackish-brown shade, which covers the outer third. Ocellic spot: of two curved bars of shining leaden scales, shaped as two halves of a circle but open top and bottom. Costal spots absent, but the boundary lines of shining leaden present, with a few scales of same color in middle of termen. Cilia dark brown and shining fuscous, preceded by a line, of gray scales.
Hindwing: reddish- or Indian-brown, with a coppery reflection, darker around edges, cilia paler, with a darker basal line.
Twelve Z and six 9 specimens, all collected near Caldwell, N. J. I have also bred this species from larvse living in the main stem of Aster patens throughout the winter.*
Thiodia umbrastriana sp. nov.
^ . — Expanse 16-18 mm.
Head : pale fawn color, mixed with brown scales, thorax the same, with brown central and lateral lines, pa tagia paler; palpi gray, whitish internally ; antenna pale fawn, darker at base ; abdomen shining fuscous, anal tuft fawn ; legs whit- ish-fawn, dusted with brown.
Forewing: light ochreous, straw color, with a diffused median streak of pale umber from base to outer third, where it joins the shade of the same color cover- ing outer third of wing. The ocellus consists of a double bar of leaden scales, joined below in shape of U. The costal lines are not distinct as in the preceding species, and a streak of the ground color runs al)ove the dark shade nearly to apex but towards its outer end becomes brown. Cilia ochreous-fuscous, preceded by a line of gray and black dots.
Hindwing: smoky fuscous, cilia whitish, preceded by a darker line; underside shining ochreous-white.
Underside forewing: brownish-ochreous, paler along costa and a darker shade in upper half of cell.
9 . — Expanse 16-18 mm.
Head: as in male but darker, and containing gray scales;' palpi, thorax and legs darker.
Forewing: similar to male, but very much darker and more clouded with the umber color, which is not confined to outer third.
Hindwing: dark coppery smoky brown ; cilia ochreous-brown, preceded by a darker line.
Eighteen % and five 9 specimens: Aweme, Man., June 9th to 22d, Griddle; Cincinnati, Ohio, May 23d to June 6th, Miss Braun ; Beaver Co., Pa., F. A. Merrick.
Thiodia roseoterminana sp. nov.
% . — Expanse 17.5-21 mm.
Head : grayish-brown ; palpi gray, whitish internally ; thorax pale fawn, darker in front and behind, patagia darker at base; antenna grayish-fuscous; abdomen yellowish-fuscous, tuft paler; legs pale fawn, dusted with darker.
* Recorded in Journal of New York Entomological Society, Vol. XI, Sept., 1903, p. 159, as T. radiatana owing to a wrong determination.
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Forewing: inner two-thirds very pale whitish-fawn, median streak almost obsolete, outer third of a rosy-coppery hue; a shade of darker fawn below costa in outer third, in which the costal spots and lines are but faintly observable. The ocellus is nearly obsolete, a shade of fawn, hardly differing from the color around it, enclosed on both sides with faintly metallic bars, with a pinkish tinge. Cilia light pinkish-brown.
Hindwing: light smoky brown, cilia paler, preceded by a darker line; under- side whitish-ochreous.
Underside forewing: pale ochreous-brown.
9 .—Expanse 16-19 mm.
Head and thorax reddish-brown ; palpi dark gray, whitish internally; antenna and alidonien reddish-fuscous; legs ochreous, dusted with brown.
Forewing: very like female of nmbrastriana, but of a brighter ochreous-red.
Hindwing: dark smoky brown; cilia ochreous, preceded by a darker line; underside reddish-ochreous.
Underside forewing: dark smoky ochreous-brown, paler along costa.
Twenty eight $ and twelve $ specimens: Cincinnati, Ohio, May 19th to 29th, Miss Braun ; New Brighton, Beaver Co., Pa., May 18th to June 3d, F. A. Merrick; Wisconsin.
Thiodia aweineana sp. nov.
% . — Expanse 17-19 mm.
Head : pale fawn, with ashy-gray scales in tuft above eyes and front; thorax pale fawn, with a blackish central and lateral line ; patagia fuscous at base ; palpi fuscous-gray, paler within; abdomen grayish-fuscous; legs fawn, dusted with brown.
Forewing: very pale fawn, median streak blackish brown, from base at dorsum to fold at middle of wing; outer third of wing, surrounding ocellic spot, dark brown, overlaid with black. Ocellic spot fawn, with metallic side bars, joined below; costal spots fawn, costal lines shining pale fawn, before apex a metallic line, becoming leaden below, parallels the termen to middle of wing. A shade of the dark outer color reaches costa before the costal lines and forms a narrow darker fascia to anal angle. (Jilia blackish-fuscous, divided by a pale fawn line and a narrower pale basal line.
Hindwing: light brownish-fuscous, darker at apex ; underside pale gray.
Underside foi-ewing: grayish-brown, lighter on outer half of costa.
9- — Expanse 17-19 mm.
Marked similar to male, but very much darker, not reddish as in the females of the three preceding species. The outer third is dark ochreous and dark brown, overlaid with black. The metallic leaden line from before apex joins the outer bar of ocellus. The light fawn of inner two-thirds is heavily overlaid with brown. Cilia blackish-fuscous; underside blackish-brown, ochreous-brown along costa.
Undei'side forewing: same as hindwing.
Eleven S and two $ specimens: Aweme, Man., May 20th to June 29th, Norman Criddle ; Beulah, Mann., A. J. Dennis.
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Tliiodia aniietteaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 14-16 mm.
Head, palpi and thorax yellowish-fawn ; antenna brown ; abdomen light fus- cous, legs whitish-yellow, dusted with fuscous.
Forewing: inner half dull yellow. The outer half is occupied by an elaborate ocellicspot, with metallic lines from costa. The ocellus is circular, filling the outer fourth of wing, on the lower half are two horizontal rows of square black spots, with a trace of a third line below, the upper half is brownish-fuscous, speckled with whitish scales. A silvery-metallic line in the form of a half circle bounds the upper half, it is interrupted at highest point, where a short metallic line from costa connects with the innerside; the outerside ends in middle of ter- men, where it nearly joins a vertical metallic line from apex. There is a vertical curved line on inner side of lower half of ocellus, and a shorter line on the out- side, with a short one between the two middle pairs of black dots ; the two former of these roughly form a complete circle around the ocellus. BeyoTid middle of costa a metallic line crosses the wing vertically, reaching nearly to dorsum, a similar but shorter line starts from costa behind the first one, but only reaches middle of wing; these two lines form the inner boundary of the ocellic ornamen- tation, between the lines and above the upper metallic circle the color is same as inner half of wing, hut dotted heavily with gray along the edges. Cilia speck- led fuscous and gray at base, outwardly shining gray ; underside gil very-gray.
Underside forewing: light coppery-brown, costal spots faintly repeated.
Seven specimens: Cincinnati, Oliio, April 2d to 23d, all collected by Miss Annette F. Braun, whose name will fittingly lienor this dainty species. It is closely allied to T. refusana Walk., and closely resembles Eucosma circulana Hbn.
Thiodia aspliodelana sp. nov.
Expanse 25-30 mm.
Head and palpi brownish-gray; antenna silvery-gray ; thorax gray, finely speckled with fuscous; abdomen grayish-fuscous, tuft cinereous; legs gray, banded and dusted with fuscous.
Forewing: light brownish-fuscous, the outer half of the rather long overlap, ping scales ashy-white, giving the wing a fiosted appearance. The white scales are not as abundant below the middle of the wing, causing a darker shade which crosses fold and ends before ocellus. The latter is high up in middle of termen and consists of two or three short vertical lines of irridescent scales, bounded on the outside by three black dots. The costal marks are obsolete, but below costa, above ocellus, are a few irridescent scales, arranged as would be the ends of oblique costal lines. On the border, below apex, is a short line of shining scales; terminal line brown ; cilia whitish-fuscous, with a white line at base, followed by a darker line.
Hingwing: smoky brown, cilia white, with white followed by brown basaj lines; underside the same, but a shade paler, and whitish along costa; underside very dark, smoky brown, whitish along costa and termen.
Four specimens : Durango, Colo., June 6th and July 2d, Dr. Dietz ; South Utah, July, 0. C. Poling; Calgary, Alberta, Head of
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Pine Creek, July 2d, F. H. Wolley Dod, through Dr. Fletcher. This last specimen also bears label "Crambid fide Smith, Dup. of 36 to him Feb. 1900."
Thio<lia baracaiia sp. uov.
Expanse 15-19 mm.
Head: Hjiht brown on sides, wliitish-brown above and in front; palpi former shade outside, latter shade within ; antenna creamy-white ; thorax light brown, a spot of white on base of patagia, and a circle of white on posterior end ; abdo- men yellowish-white; legs yellowish-white, dusted with brown.
Forewing: basal area extending beyond fourth, outer edge vertical, straight, except one indentation below fold, mottled light brown, darker in outer half and edged with dark brown. It is followed by a broad white fascia, the inner half of which reaches costa ; a third below it broadens horizontally, equaling the width of basal area, thence in a dentate line to dorsal margin. This is followed by a light brown fascia, well defined on lower two-thirds of wing ; in the upper third it runs obliquely inward to costa, and on inner edge below costa sends a short line into the white at its narrowest part; there is a dot of raised black scales on its inner edge just above fold ; the width of this brown fascia is equal to width of the white ocellic patch beyond, the latter is large, with straight vertical edges, and reaches to upper third of wing, it is dull white in the middle and shining white on the sides, between its upper half and termen is a wedge-shaped brown streak. The outer half of costa is marked with three brown spots, increasing in size outwardly and a fourth brown spot in apex, before the first and between each pair is a broader white spot, divided by a narrow brown oblique line. Between these costal spots and the upper edges of the brown and white fascise is a hori" zontal strigulation of gray and lilaceous-metallic lines. Antenna white, speckled with fuscous and brown on upper half.
Hind wing: light pinkish-gray, cilia white, with a darker basal line; underside the same.
Underside forewing: light smoky fuscous, costal spots repeated.
Six specimens: Stockton, Utah, Aug. 21st and Sept. 5th, Tom Spalding; Denver, Colo., Oslar; Colorado, Nos. 2133 and 2147, Gillette.
Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus.
Thiodia caracana sp. nov.
Expanse 18-22 mm.
Head and palpi fawn-brown, latter paler within; antenna grayish-fuscous* thorax fawn-brown, with a patch of white on posterior end ; thorax cinereous tuft yellowish ; legs whitish, banded and dusted with blackish-brown.
Forewing: brown, mottled with gray and white; two large square white dor- sal spots, one in middle of wing, reaching to upper third, dentate on inner edge, an outer spur on fold from outer edge; the outer white spot is a little narrower than the inner and is in ocellic space, with straight vertical edges, it contains two or three black dots and a small patch of grayish scales, with a brown centre in upper part. The brown patch separating these white spots is dotted with white,
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gray and black, especially black along the edges. Before the middle spot the outer half of the dark basal area is similarly dotted with black. The costa is marked with fine white lines its extire length, there are six in the basal area, four over the middle dorsal white spot, beyond these are four pairs of geminate white lines, becoming shining gray below costa and obliquely extending to the upper edges of the two outer dark and white dorsal patches, the gray streaks are on an obscure dark brown ground. The geminate streaks are separated by clear brown wedge-shaped streaks, the widest separating the outer geminate lines from a brown lunate apical spot, the latter is separated by the outer end of a costal line, with a similar brown streak between ocellic spot and termen. Cilia white at angle, with a fine marginal gray and brown line, which increases above middle and overspreads the cilia, becoming smoky black at apex.
Hind wing: light shining fuscous, cilia paler; underside the same on lower half, becoming much darker above.
Underside forewing: smoky brown, with white geminate costal spots.
Five specimens : Denver, Colo., Aug. 3d and 6th, A. J. Oslar ;
Stockton, Utah, June 29th, Tom Spalding; Pueblo, Colo., Aug.,
H. W. Nash.
Tliio<lia daracana sp. nov.
Expanse 16-18 mm.
Head : blackish-brown over eyes, cinereous above and in front ; palpi grayish- brown ; antenna and thorax fuscous; abdomen fuscous, anal tuft yellowish ; legs brownish-white, dusted and banded with shades of darker brown.
Forewing: fuscous, heavily overlaid with white, giving a gray appearance. The white scales are closer together, fornnng an obscure fascia on lower half of wing beyond middle. The ocellic spot is white, with shining white scales on side, and two short superimposed horizontal black lines. Between middle and apex the costa is marked with five pairs of (geminate) lines, the three outer pairs run togetlier beneath the subapical spot, sending a spur into termen beneath apex, below the costa these lines are slightly irridescent. The geminate lines are sepa- rated by darker fuscous-brown spots on costa, and there is a small triangular patch of the ground color, nearly free from white scale on dorsum below ocellus. (Jilia gray, speckled with fuscous and with a narrow white outer line.
Hindwing: smoky brown, lighter above dorsal margin; underside grayish- fuscous, with a purplish reflection.
Underside forewing: fuscous, paler below.
Ten specimens : Placer Co., Cal, April 20th to May 1st, A. H.
Vachell.
Thiodia raracaiia sp. nov. Expanse 11-14 mm.
Head : cream-white, shaded with light brown on tufts above eyes; palpi cream- white, with a dot of fuscous at base and one at middle of second joint outside; antenna cream-white, shaded with fuscous in front; thorax salmon-pink, ochre- ous in front; abdomen fuscous, anal tuft pink ; legs whitish, banded and dusted with brown and black.
Forewing: light reddish-ochreous in the brightest specimens to a reddish-fus- cous in the darkest. The color is darker in the middle of the wing and palest below costa before middle and at apex. The ocellus is the most conspicuous marking, it reaches to middle of wing, and is as broad as high, cream-white in the middle, with vertical side bars shining white, on the dull white are two hori-
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zontal black lines, sometimes joined at their outer ends and sometimes broken into dots, and occasionally with a dot or two below — the beginning of a third line. The costa is lightly marked with whitish oblique dashes, these beyond middle, five in number, are geminate, with faint leaden-metallic lines separating the two parts of each, from the middle one of the five a leaden line runs to simi- lar shorter streak from spot before apex. The ground color between ocellus and these costal streaks is more ochraceons than pink. Cilia very pale fawn, becom- ing brown at apex and with a speckled row of gray at base.
Hindwing: shining grayish-fuscous, cilia the same; underside of both wings the same, forewing a shade darker.
Sixteen specimens : Montclair and Essex Co., N. J., Aug. 8th to 26th, with net and at light trap; Kentucky (Covington), Aug., A. Busck ; Washington Co., Ark., July, A. J. Brown ; Hastings, Fla., Oct., A. J. Brown. One specimen from U. S. Nat. Mus. labelled "Salidago, 11/884," and " From Glovers coll. 83."
Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus.
This species has been incorrectly named as Semasia ochreicostana Wlsm. by Dr. Dyar, in my collection and others.
Froteopleryx laracniia sp. nov.
Expanse 15-17.5 mm.
Head, palpi, antenna and thorax yellowish-gray, latter speckled with fuscous; abdomen and legs yellowish-gray, latter dusted and banded with dark brown.
Forewing: no male costal fold; shining whitish-gray, somewhat mottled with blackish-browa. There are two conspicuous blackish-brown characters, one a streak in middle of wing from base nearly to middle, the other a crescent-shaped fascia from middle of costa to middle of wing, then turning and running into apex. The basal streak widens below at about a quarter from base, and beyond its outer pointed end it sends a more or less obsolete fine line along fold to anal angle. The lower edge of the crescent mark reaches below middle of wing at outer third, its upper edge is dusted at the upward turn ; in the gray area en- closed by the crescent, are four large brown costal spots and four fine brown lines. The inner third of costa is marked by three oblique brown lines. The dorsal edged from inner fourth to angle is marked with brown dots. In the darkest specimens the basal streak connects with the crescent, and the lobe on its lower side reaches to dorsum ; the outer end of crescent is also enlarged and separated from the inner portion by a line of ground color. Cilia gray, preceded by two dark basal lines, a white dash below apex.
Hindwing: silvery -gray, cilia paler, underside the same.
Underside forewing: gray below middle, smoky brown above, costal marks repeated.
Thirteen specimens : Cincinnati, Ohio, March 27th to April 10th, Miss Braun ; New Brighton, Pa., March 27th to April 15th, F. A. Merrick.
This is one of several species in Mr. Merrick's collection, incor- rectly identified as P. spoliana Clem, by Dr. Dyar.
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Proteopteryx maracana sp. nov.
Expanse 14-16.5 mm.
Head and palpi grayish-fuscous; antenna blackisli ; thorax black, patagia gray- ish-fuscous; abdomen blackish-fuscous; legs yellowish-white, heavily banded with blackish.
Forewing: without costal fold in the male, whitish-gray, with a well-defined basal area, outer fascia and spot in apex of black and brown. The basal patch is to inner fourth on costa and dorsum, and to inner third below middle of wing, above the middle the edge is lightly indented and irregular. There is a trans- verse shade of gray in the middle of the patch, defining a strong dentate dark process from middle of base. The dark fascia crosses wing between middle and outer third, its outer edge to anal angle, it is inwardly shaded with gray on upper fourth, with a black line on costa between the edges, a shade of brown crosses it at middle. The apical spot is an extension of the large costal spot before apex, it extends nearly to middle of wing in the shape of flattened triangle, with the long angle horizontal. Between the dark basal ai-ea and dark fascia is a grayish fas- cia, marked with two brown dashes on costa and a brownish -fuscous streak run- ning through its middle to termen, enlarging into a brownish-yellow spot on lower half. The ocellus is yellowish-gray, containing a few black dots, the inner vertical bar is shining leaden, broad and large, the outer bar of the. same color is narrower and shorter. Beyond the dark fascia the costa is marked with three large geminate grayish-white spots; that before apex sends a few whitish scales to termen below apex. Cilia gray inwardly, blackish outwardly.
Hindwing: light smoky brown, whitish above cell, cilia pale, with dark basal line; underside the same.
Underside forewing: smoky brown, costal spots repeated.
Seven specimens: Cincinnati, Ohio, March 26th to April 10th ; all collected by Miss Annette F. Braun.
Proleopteryx haracaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 14-17 mm.
Head, palpi, antenna and thorax hoary, speckled blackish-brown ; abdomen shining gray; legs whitish, banded and dusted with blackish.
Forewing: without costal fold in male ; gray, with a smoky black streak from dorsum at base to apex, obliquely across wing. The inner part of this shade is the basal patch, which is only defined on lower half of wing, it is continued above middle by narrow angulated streak to apex. In one very dark specimen the black shade covers all of the lower two-thirds of wing, before the ocellus, with a few whitish scales, outwardly defining the basal patch. The costal third is gray, evenly spotted with blackish-brown, there are seven or eight large dashes and about as many fine lines. The ocellus is large, atomized white on dark ground, with four short horizontal short lines superimposed and a few dots of black below, the side bars are shining. Before the ocellus and in the apex are olivaceous shades. The apical spot is rounded, of an olivaceous shade, edged with black above, the black edging turning over and continuing as a black subterminal line as far as the incission. Cilia fuscous, speckled with black and white.
Hindwing: very light smoky gray, darker around termen, cilia paler, with darker basal line; underside shining light gray, dotted with fuscous on costa.
Underside forewing: smoky black, costal dots repeated.
Six specimens : Hunter's Range, Pike Co., Pa., May 1st ; collected bv Alfred E. Lister.
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Proleopteryx faracana sp. nov.
Expanse 18-19 mm.
Head and palpi coppery -brown ; antenna gray; thorax bronzy-gray, patagia streaked with white; abdomen gray, anal tuft light ocbreous; legs whitish, dusted and banded with bronzy-black.
Forewing: no male costal fold, light bluish-gray, shaded with ochreons below costa at base. The basal area and other marks are bronzy-black. The basal area is strongest below middle, where its outer edge touches dorsum at inner fourth and outer end at inner third in middle of wing. The lower half between basal patch and ocellus is bronzy-black, crossed by two horizontal whitish-gray lines, one on the fold and the other half way between fold and dorsum. From inner fourth of wing a streak of bionzy-black parallels costa one-third below to before apex. Above this streak is bluish-gray, crossed at inner fourth, middle and outer third by dark lines from costa, which run into the dark streak below. Between these the costa is dotted with short dark dashes. The three dark costal dashes before apex send strigulated' lines, the inner, in connection with the ocel- lic black dots, as a continuous line to anal angle, the middle one to middle of dorsum, the outer one curves under apex. The apical spot is black, with brown center. The ocellic sjiot is large, shining gray on the sides, dirty white in cen- ter, with a vertical line of black dots. Between the ocellus and termen is a narrow band of speckled gray and brown, increasing in width above middle and running into apical spot. Cilia shining leaden.
Hindwing: light grayish-brown, cilia whitish, with darker basal line; under- side the same, mottled with fuscous along costa.
Underside forewing: smoky gray, whitish on costa and dotted with brown.
Two specimens: Scranton, Pa., April 21st and 22d, A. E. Lister. This may be a variety of P. spoliana Clem.
Proteoptfrj-x albicapilana sp. nov.
Expanse, California specimens, 20 mm.; Pennsylvania specimen, 17 mm.
Head : with scales long and forming a flattened crest on top and in front, con- cealing basal joints of autennfe; the scales in front, on the sides of the head, around the eyes, the patagia and a narrow edging on each side of thorax are blackish-brown ; from top of head to postcriof end of thorax the scales are pure white. Palpi scarcely twice length of head, slightly depressed, flattened, lower edge of tuft in nearly a straight line from base to tip of outer joint, which is not quite hidden, but is obscured above more than below; scales above in a well-rounded hump. Color: outwardly dark brown, flecked with dark ciner- eous; within and above at base white, brown extending over the outer half of upper and lower edges and slightly encroaching on the paler color. Male antennae slightly dentate, finely ciliated beneath, female antennas simple, purp- lish-brown. Abdomen very pale brown or faded straw color, with a band of whitish scales on each segment. Legs same, annulated with brown. Abdo- men of eastern specimen much darker, yellowish-fuscous.
Forewing: blackish- or dark purple-brown, excepting a pure white dorsal band about one-third width of middle of wing. This white band sends up into the ground color three spurs: first, at its beginning close to but not touching base; second, at inner third ; and third, at outer third before ocellic spot. The white
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spurs are rather acutely pointed, while the brown depressions between them are rounded. The white band is continued at anal angle through lower half of ocellic space and into cilia, which is pure white to the apex, excepting a dot of brown just below apex and on outer shade of brown in middle of wing. On the third white spur, just before ocellic space, is a large dot of brown scales, connected by scattering brown scales, with a similar but less conspicuous dot on dorsum. In eastern specimens these dark scales form a rather large trian- gular spot resting on dorsum and entirely interrupting the white band, excepting at its extreme upper edge. On extreme dorsal edge between this spot and base are twelve or fourteen rather evenly-spaced brown scales; two or three of the same are scattered over the upper ends of the first and second spurs. On the costa, between fold and apex, five or six geminated short dashes, these are almost obsolete on the western specimens. Costal fold about one-third length of wing, closely compressed, narrow; concolorous with upper part of wing, and bearing several geminate pale dots, which in the western specimens are reduced to tiny specks on extreme costal edge.
The dark color of the wing is more of a blackish-purple than brown, it is strig- ulated with short, fine, irregular, black, transverse lines, more distinct along costal and outer margins. Before the cilia a narrow line of more or less connec- ted dark dots form a continuation of the line of dots on dorsal margin, and before this dark line on outer margin a narrow shade of the white continues up, nearly to apex, from the dorsal band.
Hindwing: light pnrplish-fuscous, cilia paler, with a lighter and darker line at its base ; same beneath.
Underside forewing : purplish-brown, rather shining, costal and ciliate white spots repeated
Eight specimens : Nevada Co., Cal., Sept. ; Kern Co., Cal., Oct. ; Placer Co., Cal., Sept. ; New Brighton, Pa., March 22d (F. A. Merrick).
Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus.
The outer margin is very oblique, at an angle of about forty-five degrees from the dorsal line. In the California specimens the de- pression at end of veins 4 and 5 is barely observable, the margin being almost straight. The depression is more pronounced in the Pennsylvania specimen ; apex rounded ; costa scarcely arched ; forewing three times as long as wide.
It is not impossible that fuller knowledge of the life histories of
the western and eastern forms may prove them to be separate and
distinct, in which case I would propose the name pe)insylvaniana for
the latter.
Proteoteras arizonte sp. nov.
Expanse 18-20 mm.
Head, palpi, antenna and thorax cinereous-white ; outer surface of palpi speck- led with black, thorax speckled with fuscous, and posteriorly edged with black ; abdomen whitish, shaded with light fuscous above; legs whitish, banded and dusted with blackish-brown.
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Forewing: yellowish-white or dirty white, more or less mottled with brown- ish-black. The dark color forms a fascia from middle of costa to anal angle, be- ginning at costa as an extra wide oblique costal line to upper third, below this it widens and is darker, and from its upper outer edge sends a spur into apex ; the latter just before reaching apex sends a line down to below middle of ternien. The oblique fascia is divided into three spots, as below the middle it is interrup- ted by a roundish spot of whitish scales. The basal area is not distinctly defined, but that part of the wing is more strigulated with black than the space between it and the fascia. The costa, before the fascia, is lightly marked with black, be- yond the fascia with four brownish-black spots, the outer one close to the apex. The ocellic spot is large, of silvery-white scales on sides, with a spot of dull white scales, containing grayish and bi'own dots in the center, it occupies all of the the space between and below the fascia and streaks from same. Cilia white, pre- ceded by a geminate submarginal line on lower half, shaded with fuscous at lower third and below apex, becoming blackish-brown at apex.
%. — Hindwing: black, cilia white, silvery-white below costa and yellowish hair pencil.
Underside both wings: yellowish-white, the costa of forewing and the outer half of both wings, except at termen, entirely overlaid with black scales. The upper side of hindwing and lower side of both wings of the females are grayish- fuscous.
Five males and two females : Prescott, Ariz., July 5th aud 18th, Dr. Kunze ; Oak Creek Canon, Ariz., 6000 ft. elevation, Aug., Prof. F. H. Snow ; Pueblo, Colo., July, F, H. Nash ; Cold Spring, Colo., Dr. Dietz; Fort Collins, Colo., June 24th, Gillette; Denver, Colo., Dyar and Caudell, No. 16,736.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and University of Kansas.
Proteoteras crescentana sp. nov.
Expanse 16-18 mm.
Head, palpi, thorax and base of antenna very light brownish-white; outer side of palpi shaded with black and apical joint the same color, base of patagia shaded with brown ; abdomen grayish-fuscous, lateral tuft white; legs whitish, dusted and banded with black.
Forewing: light gray, with a very strong, well defined black crescent from middle of costa to apex, it is broadest between costa and the lower side of the curve, which is below middle of wing, from there to apex it tapers gradually ending in apex as a narrow line. The black basal area is well defined above the middle of wing, its outer edge starting from inner fifth and running to inner third at middle ; below this, it is indistinctly angled inward to dorsum. On the upper half of wing, between basal and crescent dark patches, is a fascia of whit- ish scales, which follows the underside of orescent above fold, nearly into ocellic spot; it is strigulated by a line of dark fuscous scales. Beneath fold from base to angle is a streak of brownish-ochreous, and the semi-circular patch of ground color on outer half of costa, enclosed by crescent, is of the same color. The ocellic spot is large, of gray and white scales, the inner and outer edges are leaden-me- tallic. Between the outer edge of ocellus and apex and before the inner side of
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ocellna are small patches of hrowTi, the latter being a continuation of the dorsal brown streak. Cilia gray, sjieckled with fuscous.
Hindwing: light brown, the hair pencil-fold edged with black; underside the same.
Underside forewing: grayish-fuscous, creamy-white below fold.
The hindwing and underside of both wings are the same in male and female specimens.
Seven specimens: Iowa, Gillette, Ac. Cat., Nos. 36 and 46; West Manitoba ; Kansas ; Cincinnati, Ohio, June 17th, Miss Braun ; Pluminer's Island, Md., June, A. Busck ; Elk Grove, 111., June 2oth, K. L. McElhose.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mas. and Miss Braun's collection.
Prateoteras torontana sp. uov.
Expanse 20 mm.
Head, palpi and thorax light brown ; outer joint of palpi darker brown ; an- tenna gray; legs whitish-cinereous, dusted with brown.
Forewing: yellowish-gray, dusted with brown. A brown crescent-shaped streak from middle of costa to apex, enclosing a costal patch of pure white, the costa in this patch dotted with three large and five small brown dots. The brown crescent streak is broadest on costa, narrower on lower curve, and at the apex it broadens, involving all the space above the indentation of termen. The inner half of Gosta, before the crescent, is bordered also with pure white, in wliich there are about six brown dots on extreme edge, and a line of three or four below on upper edges of cell. Cilia brown at apex, white below.
Hindwing: cinereous, speckled with brown, narrowly shaded with dark brown at outer edge and base of cilia, outer ends of cilia whitish, light whitish-brown, with a pure white spot in apex, cut by a narrow submarginal daik brown line.
Underside forewing: smoky brown, dark brown at apex and narrowly at ter- men, white costal patches and brown costal dots repeated.
One specimen : Toronto, Ont,, June 5th ; collected by Arthur Gibson ; received from Dr. Fletcher,
Proteoleras naracana sp. nov.
Esjianse 16-20 mm.
Head : brown, lighter in front; face white; palpi white, shaded with black on outside and upper edge; antenna light brown, basal joint brown, with a white spot on posterior side; thorax white, with a pair of joined olivaceous spots on front and a patch of same color on posterior end, patagia white, with yellow and brown scales at base and near outer end; abdomen fuscous, lateral tufts on anal segment white, anal tuft fuscous; legs yellowish-white, banded and dusted with blackish-brown.
Forewing: a white streak from base to outer fifth on upper part of wing; its lower edge runs from middle of base, slightly above fold and parallel to it, nearly to middle of wing, then goes obliquely upward to costa at outer fifth, it is indented by a semi-circular depression at the beginning of the upward angle be- yond which its lower edge is overlaid with gray, and is bounded by a horizontal
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elongated S-shaped black mark that lies between it and the ocellus. The ex- treme costa is olivaceous-green, with a large green spot at inuer third and mid- dle, with smaller ones before, between and beyond. The lower part of wing is mottled olivaceous-green and brown. There is a cluster of long whitish scales on dorsum at base, above which is a spot of whitish and fuscous-brown raised scales, before this tuft are three black dots in a triangle; before fold is another round button of raised scales and a third tuft above fold on outer fourth. The ocellic spot is grayish-white, with shining white side bars. From costa, beyond white patch, is a whitish spot, which sends a leaden-metallic streak under apex. Between this and apex is another white spot on costa on an ochreous-brown ground. Cilia speckled black and gray at base, fuscous outwardly.
Hindwing: smoky brown, male hair pencil black, cilia gray, with dark basal line, underside paler.
Underside forewing: same as upperside hindwing, with costal spots repeated.
Ten specimens : New Brighton, Pa., May 31st to June 19th, F. A. Merrick ; Cincinnati, Ohio, May 26th to June 4th, Miss Braun ; Wisconsin, Otto Buchholz.
Epinotis septemberana sp. nov.
Expanse 16-19 mm.
Head : ferruginous on sides and front, giayish on top; palpi ferruginous, dark gray within; thorax ferruginous, gray, base of patagia dark ferruginous; an- tenna grayish beneath, ferruginous above; abdomen and legs yellowish-gray, latter banded and dusted with dark brown.
Forewing: gray on dorsal thii'd, above purple-lake, the latter color paler at base and along edge of costa. The gray shade is finely atomized with blackish- fuscous and extends from base to termen a quaiter above anal angle ; from base to inner fifth there are only scattered gray scales on dorsal margin, at inner fifth it swells to middle of wing, at inner third it narrows obliquely along line of fold to outer fourth where it swells again, but less than before and rounds off into termen. The purple-lake ground color, in the indentation between the two gray elevations, is darker than elsewhere. There are a few scattered scales of gray in ground color above the second elevation. A fine, diminishing line of gray at ter- men from the anal angle to apex. Cilia purple-lake above middle, fuscous below and whitish opposite the gray color at angle.
Hindwing: smoky gray, cilia paler, with a darker basal line; underside the same.
Underside forewing: smoky brown, marked with cream color on costa and a reflection of purple-lake below.
Twenty specimens : nineteen taken in Essex County Park, N. J., the last week of September for a number of years; one from Scran ton. Pa., September, A. E. Lister.
Epinotia haimbachiana sp. nov. Expanse 13-17 mm.
Head: brownish-gray, darker back of eyes; eyes purplish-brown ; palpi gray, slightly darker outwardly, apical joint white; antenna gray ; thorax gray, an te-
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rior edjje speckled with brown, and a double brown dot behind middle; abdomen, first three segments and tuft pale ochieoiis, other segments fuscous; legs whitish, banded with blackish-brown.
Forewing: ashy-gray, with lines, spots and shades of brown. The basal area extends to inner third at middle of wing and to inner fourth of costa and dor- sum, outwardly it is blackish-brown, especially intense below middle and on dor- sum for the outer half of the ai'ea ; above and before the intense brown color the balance of the area is gray, strigulated with brown. Beyond is a broad grayish- white fascia, outwardly defined by a narrow, nearly obsolete brown shade from middle of costa to anal angle, outwardly oblique to upper third, then inwardly oblique to lower third, thence concave to dorsum, where its inner edge ends in a small brown dot. The whitish middle fascia is more or less dotted with brown, and a faint line of same color parallels its inner border. Beyond the narrow dark fascia a broader streak of shining gray scales starts below costa at outer fourth, goes to anal angle, circles the ocellus beneath to termeu. The ocellus is in the middle of the wing of fine whitish lines on dark brown ground, with six or eight black dots and horizontal dashes; there are several fine short black lines in the shining gray streak below the ocellus and a third below costa. The costa is whitish-gray, finely and regularly marked with short brown lines, with four larger spots in outer half, the inner of which sends a brown stieak obliquely to middle of wing, the next one sends a brown streak to termen beneath apex, with ft spur between termen and ocellus. There is a brown-black semi-circle in apex, the outer half on the cilia, through the middle of it runs a dark brown terminal line, this line in the middle of wing is nearly obsolete, with a white line beyond it, it continues as a brown line around anal angle. Cilia fuscous, brown out- wardly at apex, and white inwardly in middle.
Hindwing: light bronzy-brown, paler at base, underside gray.
Underside forewing: smoky brown, with geminated whitish costal spots. Some f)f the female specimens are dotted with light reddish ochreous, on upper part of middle light fascia, and the two lower ends of the costal streaks on outer half are the same color.
Twenty-five specimens: Philadelphia, June 8d to 23d, Frank Hainibach ; Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 14th, Miss Braun ; Wisconsin, Dr. Nasou ; Riverton, N. J., E. Daecke. One specimen from U. S. National Museum bearing labels " Stegauoptycha near Saliciana Clem., and approximating pauperana (Europe) but apparently dis- tinct from both C. V. R. 1886 " (Wlsm.), and a smaller label refer- ring to the slight cocoon and pupa case " found on ground Augt. 4 iss. Augt. 7, 1877."
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus.
This species is close to my E. ilicifoliana, bred from ilex in New Jersey and North Carolina. It is a generally larger and lighter species, and can be separated by the absence of the oblique brown line from end of cell to apex, which is always present in ilicifoliana.
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Mr. Haimbach, in wliose honor the species is named, has collected scores of specimens in the daytime resting on the fence of a summer garden at the corner of Allegheny Avenue and Broad Street. The garden is filled with many varieties of shrubs and trees, and a care- ful examination early in May would certainly disclose the larvae twisting the young leaves of a plant allied to ilex.
The generic notes regarding ilieifoliana will also apply to this species. They are both allied to Clemens saliciana and salicicolana.
Epiiiotia pliiinbolineana sp. nov.
Expanse 13.5-16 mm.
Head, antennje and palpi dark cream or very pale brown. Scales on head erect above and between eyes, flattened on face. Palpi second joint with flat- tened truncated tuft, scales rather closely appressed, end of third joint not hid- den. Palpi rather depressed and not quite the length of head beyond it. Scales forming collar, tipped with reddish wine color. Thorax same as head, smooth. Abdomen alternately banded with cinereous and fuscous, the lighter color, the tips of scales of each segment, anal tuft cinereous. Legs same as head, but in front and tarsi stained with wine color.
Forewing: grayish- white, tinged with cinereous ground color. A conspicuous wide-red fascia from middle of costa to anal angle, broadest on costa and as wide there as one-third to one-half of width of wing, gradually tapering to an obtuse point at anal angle. The inner edge of this fascia curves evenly and obliquely outward, the outer edge is sinuate, slightly concave above and convex below the middle, the outer edge is outlined by a slender line of white lustrous scales from costa nearly to anal angle, turning inward above and defining the obtuse lower point of this fascia. Beyond this fascia the entire outer margin is clouded with this same color, but a shade paler, roughly in the form of a triangle with the base resting against the cilia, the other two sides coming to a point just beyond end of cell. Above this triangle the costa from fascia to apex is ground color. On the extreme apex are a few blackish scales, and in some of the darker speci- mens a few of these scales are scattered over fascia and triangle. There are no distinctly defined subapical costal spots, but four or five short streaks of more lustrous white can be observed in some specimens. A basal area is only well de- fined in some of the darker specimens, in these it covers the inner third of wing, angulated on cell and of a light shade of brown. In the majority of specimens this light brown basal color shades into the ground color, without very distinct line of demarcation. A few dark dots mark this area in some specimens, usually paralleling the fascia. The central fascia is narrowly edged with a whiter shade than the ground color. The male costa is slightly curled up from base to outer edge of fascia, and in the hollow thus formed is a narrow line of dark leaden scales, doubtless a secondary sexual character, this liue begins just beyond base and ends in middle of fascia. Cilia lustrous pink.
Hindwing: dark gray, cilia paler, preceded by a darker, then a paler liue.
Uuderside forewing: dark smoky fuscous, with cinereous line along costa from outer three-fifths to just before apex. Cilia stained with dull pink, preceded by a darker then a paler line.
Underside hindwing: same as above.
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Twenty five .speeirneiis: one, No. 33, Seattle, Wash., O. B. John- son ; two, Seattle, Wash., v 27, 1902, T. Kincaid, blue label 179, and white labels " willow," whether caught on willow or bred from larvte on willow not stated ; twenty-two, Wellington, Br. Col., June, Rev. Geo. W. Taylor, and Th. Bryant.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus.
Oydia cupressana sp. nov.
Expanse 14-16 mm.
Head : dark greenish-brown, scales tipped with cinereous on tlie face the latter predominates, making face lighter, scales of head form semi-circular tuft above eyes, meeting above as a slight crest. Palpi very short, tip of outer joint scarcely projected beyond face, scales of second joint rather closely compressed, tuft small, colored same as face, outer joint black, bare, short, blunt. Thorax smooth, shin- ing fuscous, patagia same, but scales shading into whitish at outer ends, neither irrorated with lighter specks like head. Abdomen and legs above shining fus- cous, paler below, anal tuft tinged with ochreous.
Forewing: dark chocolate-brown, very finely irrorated with transverse lines, pale yellowish-green scales beyond basal area and crossed by five rather broad metallic lines, of a silvery-salmon hue; only the first pair of lines in middle of wing are continuous from costa to dorsal margin, the third ends just before reaching dorsal margin, the fifth is but little more than a costal streak ending at vein 8, the outer line before the outer margin is divided in three parts by two evenly spaced interruptions. A small metallic dot below costa between fifth line and apex. On the extreme costa the metallic scales are replaced by yellowish- green. The metallic lines are partly bound by black, notably: before the first, beyond the upper third of the streak, which black streak follows along costa to third line and down its inner side to top of cell ; the lower half of this third line is defined on its inner edge by black, the black line at its upper end turns out- wards, at right angle, cutting through the metallic line, and continues to the inner edge of the fifth metallic line, which it defines for the length of its middle section ; in some specimens the horizontal black line is not continuous, and the line before the fifth metallic is also broken into two to four short horizontal dashes. Black also outwardly defines the fourth short line. The basal area is ground color, slightly shining, lightly and sparsely dusted with yellow-green atoms, it occupies nearly a third of the wing on dorsal margin, a quarter on costa, its outer margin oblique for two-thirds of its length, then vertical to dorsum. The metallic lines are nearly parallel to each other, the space between first and second is widest, the ground color between these two lines is also more heavily overlaid, with the pale atoms, the same is the case between third and fourth, and between fifth and apex ; making an effect of three paler fasciae, separated by two narrower darker fascise. Cilia luteous-metallic, preceded by a narrow brown- black line, the latter interrupted a third below apex by a small square yellowish- green spot.
Hindwing: deep smoky brown, cilia white, preceded by a brown line, and this by a faint narrow pale line ; long hairs near base on veins 1 and lower median vein white.
Underside both wings: dull brown ; underside forewing: costa marked with
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pale yellow beneath the metallic lines above, the small pale spot on outer margin is also repeated, cilia shining brown. The cilia of hindwing is same as above, the tips of scales below outer half of costa and in apex are pale yellowish-green, giving the outer half of wing an irrorated appearance.
Described from ten specimens in the U. S. National Museum, bred from seed-pods of Capressus macrocarpa, Alameda. Co., Cal. , issued Jan. 1 to 24, 1886, breeding number 68.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus.
Cydia piperana sp. nov.
Expanse, % and 9.18.5mm.
Head, palpi and thorax cinereous-gray, with atoms of paler gray. Abdomen and legs shining fuscous. Palpi porrect, ascending, second joint long, loosely clothed, third joint bare, extends beyond face.
Forewing: dull brown ; closely, evenly and heavily overlaid with pale yellow atoms, these atoms not arranged in paraflel transverse lines as in cupressana. Several metallic, silvery lilies, with bluish reflections, cross the wing. One, just before the middle from costa to dorsum, nearly vertical, but slightly bulging out- ward about middle; the second, beyond middle, runs obliquely to dorsum before anal angle, and there joins a pi-eciiiate metallic line, the latter arising on costa at apex. Between second and outer lines are two short ones on costa, the outer is double the length of the inner, and is oblique. The metallic lines are narrowly edged with black. Cilia shining luteous, preceded by a narrow black line.
Hindwing: smoky fuscous, darker towards apex, cilia white, preceded by dark fuscous line, and it preceded by a very narrow whitish line.
Undersides both wings: shining fuscous, with a coppery reflection. Cilia same as above.
Two specimens: Pullman, Wash., April 11, 1898; collected by Mr, C. V. Piper, in whose honor the species is named. Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus.
Cydia iiiquilina sp. nov.
Expanse, 9- 14-15 mm.
Head : shortly and loosely scaled in front and above, face small, cinereous, thickly dotted with fuscous or smoky brown. Palpi short, scarcely extend be- yond head, second joiut above with con)pressed scales, below loosely clothed with short scales hanging vertically downward, from end of second joint to base ; outer joint as long as second, depressed, not hidden by tufts of second, closely clothed with short, compressed scales; pale cinereous, excepting all of third joint and a patch on outer sides of outer half of second, which are smoky black. Antennae (female) simple, cinereous, lightly annulated with daslies between segments. Thorax smooth, it and patagia cinereous, thickly dotted with smoky brown. Ab- domen dark fuscous, posterior edges each segment cinereous. Legs cinereous, annulated with smoky brown.
Forewing: smoky brown, tinged with ferruginous, minutely and thickly dotted with cinereous. A large patch of coppery-metallic scales in middle of wing below
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costa, and a smaller vertical patch of same color before ocellic spot. A sinuate line of same color scales outlines outer side of ocellic spot, this line is interrui)ted in middle, and beyond the break on outer margin is a dot of same color. Several horizontal black streaks in ocellic spot. Costa from inner third to apex black, which is broken by six geminated cinereous dashes, about evenly spaced. Ex- cepting the two apical pairs, these geminate dashes are heavily overlaid with bluish-metallic scales, most conspicuous in four short oblique lines at and beyond middle of wing, and an extended line from third spot before apex, which con- tinues below the outer spots to outer margin about a quarter below apex. A nar- row shade of ochreous-red or wine color from before middle covers upper part of wing below costa, turning downward at apex and ending on outer margin at anal angle. This reddish shade sharply contrasts with a black preciliate line on outer margin, and with the black and metallic streaks along the costa. In the apical third are a few short horizontal streaks of black. Cilia fuscous, with a shining purplish reflection.
Hind wing: smoky fuscous, paler basally, cilia pale fuscous, preceded by a broader, darker and a narrower paler line. Underside same.
Underside forewing: very dark, smoky, black; cilia same, preceded by slightly paler line ; costal cinereous dashes faintly separated.
Three female specimens : two labelled " San Francisco, California, Mrs. Knickerbocker," and one red ink number 69, Seattle, Wash- ington, O. B. Johnson.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and in my collection.
Ancylis intermediana sp. nov.
Expanse 12.5-14 mm.
Head, palpi, thorax and antennse pale cinereous; palpi projecting two-thirds length of head before it, usually depressed, second joint heavily scaled, not com- pressed, entirely concealing third joint, sharply truncated at outer end. Scales of head long, forming small brush in front and ridge between eyes. Abdomen shining gray, anal tuft cinerous; legs cinereous, a shade paler between joints.
Forewing: pale gray, overlaid with shining whitish scales = ground color. Large dorsal and other prominent spots olivaceous-brown = dark color. Large dorsal spots from base to anal angle on dorsum, upper edge from middle of base, swelling gently upward, reaching highest elevation at about inner third, where it is as wide as three-fifths the width of the wing, evenly rounded on top, thence descending, evenly without prominences towards anal angle, slightly sub-sinuate before angle; a continuous line of dark color is continued from anal angle as a preciliate line and merges into the dark color at apex. At the middle of costa an oblique fascia begins, but extends only two-thirds towards anal angle, and widens out into a well-defined lunate spot, the inner, lower and outer margins forming the curved portion ; a falcate dark color spot in apex, preceded by eight short oblique dashes of same color on costa between apex and central fascia. These dark costal spots are separated by oblique lines of white lustrous scales, the lower points of each of the outer four are overlaid with lustrous blue, a few scales of same color beneath apex; the inner bounds the upper edges of lunate spot and runs into a line of bluish lustrous scales dividing this spot from the ocellic space ; the next outer white line merges with the inner, the third and fifth are very
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short and less than half the length of the fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth white lines. The first to sixth are outwardly oblique, the seventh vertical and eighth inwardly obliqe. The dark costal dashes on each side of the sixth white line join together below and form a distinctly defined sinuate line, the outer edge of which rests on middle of outer margin. The inner boundary of this line is de- fined by a line of bluish lustrous scales, which also separates it from outer edge of ocellic patch. The pale ground color covers upper two-fifths of wing on costa before central fascia, thence descends in an easy sweep, with almost parallel edges between dorsal and lunate spots to the dorsum, then into and forming the ocellic space; a faint shade of darker scales crosses it on upper edge of cell, and in the ocellic space it is slightly overlaid with darker scales. The lunate spot at its outer end is cut by a short horizontal line of black scales, with a dot of same above the line. Cilia shining white, cut by a long black dash beneath apex and a shorter one below this, and margined inwardly by a row of black dots between apex and middle ; below apex outer ends of cilia shaded with olivaceous-cinereous.
Hind wing: olivaceous-gray, cilia paler, preceded by a darker and a lighter line, the laiter the narrowest.
Underside both wings: shining fuscous, hind wing paler than forewing; ciner- eous along costa of ford wing, with darker spots repeated. Several dark dots ou outer half of costa of hind wing. Cilia cinereous.
Nineteen specimens; male and female, one Seattle, Wash., O. B. Johnson, No. 51 ; eighteen, Wellington, Br., Col., Rev. Geo. W. Taylor and Th. Bryant, May and June.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus.
Enarinoiiia wal»iiighaini sp. nov.
Expanse 15-20 mm.
Head: smoky brown; p:ilpi light brown, darker on ends of scales and apical joint; antennsE fuscous; thorax bronzy-black; abdomen dark fuscous, anal tuft brown ish-ochreous; legs light browuish-ochreous, annulated and dusted with blackish-brown.
Forewing : brownish-black, on the inner half of costa are seven or eight ochre- ous dots on the extreme edge, four larger and more prominent dots are on the outer half, but do not extend below the edge. The white dorsal patch is large and roughly triangular in shape, it extends to middle of wing on the dorsum, within the spot are two small black dots; there is a gray shade extending from tipper end of the white patch to the costa before middle; a similar gray shade extends from the three inner costal marks; beyond the middle, to middle of cell and from the fourth, a pair of lines of the same color to the middle of the termen ; between these gray shades and between the outer one and termen the ground color is overlaid with scattered black and ochreous-brown scales. The ocellus consists of a large U-shaped mark of gray-metallic scales, the lower rounded part resting on the termen above the angle, and the upper open and extending to be- yond middle of wing. Cilia smoky brown, preceded by irregular darker line.
Hindwing: dark smoky brown ; underside the same, but less dark cilia shin- ing fuscous.
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Underside forewiug: same as hindwing, with ochreous costal marks and the white dorsal patch repeated.
Seven specimens: Hemlock Falls, N. J., April 29th ; Essex Co., N. J., April 30tli aiul May 4th ; Great Notch, N. J., May 4th; Tryon, N". C, W. F. Fiske.
Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus.
This is the eastern representative of the Californian americana Wlsin. Since the note published in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxviii, 362, 1905, I have received additional material which makes it very evident that the species are distinct. I take pleasure in dedicating the new form to Lord Walsingham, whose careful work on North American Tortricids is so well known and appreciated.
Eiiarnioiiia dyarana sp. nov.
Expanse, 9 , 16-17 mm.
Head : dark gray-brown, lighter in front; palpi light clay color, the long hair on the outer side of tufts fuscous ; apical joint fuscous ; anteunje l)lackish-fuscous; thorax blackish-fuscous, patagia of an olivaceous-fuscous shade ; abdomen black- ish-fuscous, anal tuft and underside anal segments whitish.
Forewing: blackish-brown, the outer fourth faintly irrorated with yellowish scales. On the costa before the middle is a pair of white dashes joining at top of cell and continuing to middle of cell as a dull leaden metallic line. Beyond the middle are four pairs of similar dashes, from all descend lines of metallic scales, that from the inner pair nearly joining the upper end of the dorsal mark. There is a small metallic spot on termen below apex ; and beyond it, interrupting the black terminal line, is a patch of cream-colored scales. The ocellic spot is absent, but represented by a vertical bar of metallic scales starting from dorsum at anal angle and slightly curving inward to above middle of wing. The white dorsal mark arises from beyond middle of wing and inclines outward, it is composed of two white lines which come close together at middle of their length, and are sep- arated at each end, they extend to above middle of wing, the scales at upper end metallic. Cilia shining fuscous.
Hindwing: smoky fuscous, cilia paler; underside the same.
Underside forewing: shining grayish-fuscous, with costal dashes as well as ocellic bar strongly reproduced in cream color, a dash of same through middle of cell.
Three 9 specimens: Colorado, collected by Dyar and Caudell.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and my collection.
This species is roughly scaled and will go in the same class as E. americana.
Eiiarinoiiia edwardsiaiia sp. nov.
Expanse 12-14 mm.
Head and thorax blackish-brown ; palpi pale clay-brown ; antenna black ; abdo- men blackish-fuscous, external tips of scales on underside paler, anal tuft ochre- ous; legs whitish-gray, powdered with blackish-brown.
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Forewing: brown, with a slight bronzy tinge; in the fresh specimen rather heavily streaked with gray from base to ternien. On the costa below middle are two oblique white streaks, between them and base another white shade that does not extend below costa ; beyond the middle are four pairs of white costal dashes, the inner one of the first pair giving off a short line of lilaceous metallic scales; the outer one of the second pair gives off a similar line, which runs beneath the third pair ; the outer dash of the fourth pair continues as a broken line of metallic to termen beneath apex; these white dashes are separated by black iiiterspaces. The ocellic spot is absent, being represented by a vertical bar of yellowish-gray metallic scales. The white dorsal streak is slightly beyond middle of wing and consists of two narrow oblique lines joined together at the top by metallic scales, and this extension reaching above middle of wing. Between the two lines on dorsum is a tiny white dot, a similar dot on dorsum before the first line; one or both of these dots are absent in some specimens. Cilia shining leaden, preceded by a black terminal line.
Hindwings: dark bronzy-brown, tuft of hair scales at base of median vein and cilia white. Underside whitish-bronze, mottled along costa with darker brown.
Underside forewing: same as hind wing, but outer half shinish reddish-bronze ; costal spots strong, repeated.
Four specimens : three Henry Edwards' collection, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Reg. Nos. 14,564, 14,568, and 14,569, Coll. Nos. 236 and 235, California ; one specimen, San Francisco, Cal.
Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and in my collection.
This species is similar to our eastern E. tristrigana Clem., but can be distinguished by the different dorsal marks. The three speci- mens from the Edwards' collection are somewhat faded, and are of a light cinnamon brown, the gray streaks ab.sent, but the costal, ocellic, and dorsal marks agree with the fresher specimen.
Eiiarmoiiia laiia sp. nov.
Expanse 13 5-15 mm.
Head : fuscous, dark cream in front; palpi whitish, with a few dots on brown on outside of tufts; antennae fuscous; thorax olivaceous-brown; abdomen purp- lish-fuscous, shining, outer ends of scales on underside whitish-fuscous; legs bronzy-brown.
Forewing: brownish-bronze, shining all over. There are two short oblique white dashes on costa before middle; beyond middle are eight white dashes, the inner pair geminate, and the six outer ones arranged in three pair, interspaces dark brown ; from the inner dash and from the first pair, short lines of bluish-metallic scales parallel the costa ; a short line of the same is below the eighth. There is a dot of the same in termen beneath apex. The ocellic spot is absent, but repre- sented by a vertical bar of golden metallic scales reaching to middle of wing, between it and termen the ground color is overlaid with yellowish scales. The dorsal mark is broad and divided into four lines, they are somewhat contracted at the top, where they reach to the middle of the wing. Terminal line dark brown, cut below apex by a black streak, bordering which below is a white scale.
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Hind wing: dark bronzy-brown, with a dash of whitish at base, cilia pale fus- cous. Underside of both wings dark bronzy-brown, with costal dashes faintly repeated.
Two specimens: one % and one 9) Colfax, Placer Co., Cal , July, Collected by A. H. Vachell.
This species is also similar to the eastern tristrigana, hut can be separated by the difference in costal and dorsal marks.
Eiiariuonia placeraiia sp. nov.
Expanse, %, 12-14 mm. ; J, 14-16 mm.
Head : fuscous-brown, paler in front; palpi pale clay-brown, tips of brush and apical joint blaokish-brown ; antennge black, with a bronzy tinge; thoT-ax oliva- ceous-brown, patagia tipped with white; abdomen fuscous-brown, external scales, underside, white; thorax whitish-ochreous; legs cinereous-gray, powdered with fuscous.
Forewing: bronzy-brown, shaded with leaden gray on inner third on dorsal and costal margins of male. Before the middle of costa there are two white marks on extreme edge next to base, between these and middle are two white oblique dashes, the lower ends continuing as pale blue-metallic, and almost running into top of dorsal mark. Beyond middle are eight narrow oblique white dashes, the first sends a metallic-blue line obliquely across wing and joins the upper end of the vertical ocellic bar; from the fourth a metallic blue line runs parallel to costa and combines with a similar extension from the eight. The ocellus is represented by a vertical bar of silvery -gray metallic scales, the lower end resting on termen above anal angle, it curves slightly inward. The white dorsal patch is broad and divided into two lines by a line of brown, in some specimens each side line is subdivided by a central dotting of brown scales; it curves slightly outward, and in the 9 specimens there is a tendency to broaden out at upper end, which reaches to middle of wing and terminates in a few metallic blue scales. Termi- nal line black, cut below apex by a dash of whitish-fuscous. Cilia leaden-fuscous.
Hindwing: dark bronzy-brown, cilia fuscous, underside both wings tlie same, with costal dashes repeated.
Three S and four 9 specimens : Placer Co., Cal., May to June ; six collected by A. H. Vachell ; one, collection of U. S. Nat, Mus.
This species is marked like tristrigana, but the shape of the wings
and rather rough scales place it in the same class as americaua
Wlsm.
Eiiarin4»iiia wana sp. nov.
Expanse 10-12 mm.
Head : gray, speckled with darker gray ; palpi pale cinereous, upper end of tuft a shade darker, outer joint blackish ; antenna gray, with darker annulations at joints, thorax bronzy-brown, with a reddish-green tinge; abdomen shining blackish-fuscous above, paler beneath, anal tuft whitish ; legs whitish-gray, shin- ing iridescent scales.
Forewing: shining bronzy-brown. Before the middle are three white costal dashes, the inner one nearly obsolete, each continuing to top of cell in lines of leaden-metallic. Beyond the middle are three pairs of white costal dashes, the two inner pairs close together, the outer close to the apex, all are continuous as
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golden-metallic lines to a third below costa. The ocellic spot is olivaceous-yellow, crossed by four horizontal black lines; the vertical side-bars are fjolden-metallic, the inner one connecting with first costal line beyond middle. The dorsal white patch, which is divided by a brown dot on dorsum, about three times as long as wide, curving outward slightly and reaching but a trifle above fold ; from the outer upper edge it is continued as a metallic line to above middle of wing ap- proaching but not joining the metallic line from costal spot before middle. The tips of the scales on upper half to middle, in apex and before termen are tipped with yellow. There is a dark brown terminal line cut by a white dash below apex. Cilia shining fuscous.
Hindwing: bronzy-brown, paler towards base, cilia same inwardly, white out- wardly; underside shining gray-white.
Underside forewing: shining bronzy-brown, with costal spots repeated. In certain lights there is a greenish bloom over both surfaces of both wings.
About fifty specimens : Carmel-by-tlie-Sea, Monterey Co., Cal.,
April; San Luis Obispo, Cal., March; all collected by A. H.
Vachell.
Eiiartuonia zana sp. uov.
Expanse 10-15 mm.
Head and thorax grayish-brown ; palpi pale clay color, ends of tuft and third joint blackish ; antennse fuscous-brown ; abdomen blackish-fuscous, paler between joints, anal tuft ochreous; legs pale brown, heavily overlaid with black.
Forewing: bronzy-brown, with a metallic bloom in certain lights; the costa is marked with three obscure whitish spots before middle, from the outer two of which an obscure milky white shining fascia follows to middle then angles inward to dorsal margin. Beyond middle is a group of four white costal dots, obscurely geminate, the inner sends a line of shining silvery scales obliquely to middle thence down to dorsum, where it forms the inner bar of the ocellic spot; a short shining line from fourth spot joins the preceding at middle of wing. Before the apex are two hook-shaped white dashes, the outer one sending a broken line of shining scales to middle of termen ; before these two dashes is an obscure white spot on costa, which sends a broken line of metallic scales to anal angle, the lower part forming the outer vertical bar of ocellus. The ocellus consists of a shining yellowish patch, divided by hnir short horizontal lines, these lines do not reach the side-bars, the outer bar is defined on its inner side by a broken row of black dots, with a few black dots on its outer side. The ground color of the outer half of the wing is heavily overlaid with golden-yellow scales. Cilia shining fuscous, preceded by a dark fuscous line.
Hindwing: rather light bronze, cilia pale gray, shining ; underside brownish- gray, leather heavily reticulated with pale gray scales, especially at outer end of wing.
Underside forewing: upper half bronzy-brown, shading into a brownish gray below; costal spots repeated.
Twenty-four specimens : Wellington, Br. Col., May and June, Geo. W. Taylor and T. Bryant.
This species is similar to E. vana, but can be separated by the arrangement of costal. spots and the ocellic spots.
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Enarmoiiia vana sp. nov.
Expanse 13-15 mm.
Head and thorax dark gray, with a bronzy tinge, face pale yellowish gray ; palpi yellowish-gray, with tips of scales and apical joint blackish ; autennse fus- cous, finely annulated with yellowish-gray; abdomen blackish-fuscous above, cinereous beneath ; legs whitish-cinereous, thickly powdered with dark brown.
Forewing: shining bronzy-brown ; the strongest marked character is theocellic spot, consisting of a patch of cream-colored scales, with a pinkish tinge and divi- ded by four horizontal black lines; before and beyond this i)atch is a vertical bar of golden-metallic scales, also with a pinkish hue. The costa is marked by about six geminate cream-colored dashes ; from the two pairs before the middle descend obliquely to top of cell obscure pinkish-metallic lines, which merge there, and an irregular and more or less obscure fascia of the same color reaches the dorsum at middle of wing. Beyond the middle the first and third pair of spots give off lines of pink-metallic, which approach each other about the middle of wing and nearly merge into the inner bar of the ocellic spot. A similar line curves outward from the second spot before apex, but ends before the termen ; the dot before the apex gives forth a similar line, which runs into termen under the apex and causes a break in the black terminal line. The scales of the ground color of the outer half of wing are very faintly tipped with yellowish, giving a strigulated appear- ance. Cilia shining leaden.
Hind wing : light bronzy-brown, cilia same, with a leaden hue ; underside same.
Underside forewing: darker than hindwing, costal spots strong, repeated.
Eight specimens: Colfax, Placer Co., Cal., July ; collected by A. H. Vacheil.
Eiiarmonia tana sp. uov.
Expanse, %, 12-13 mm.; J, 15-16 mm.
Head: olivaceous-gray, collar and face cinereous-gray; palpi cinereous, third joint blackish ; antennae fuscous; thorax olivaceous-gray, patagia streaked with whitish-gray; abdomen blackish-fuscous, with a few long white hairs from poste- rior segments ; legs cinereous, dotted and annulated with dark brown.
Forewing: basal area dark leaden-gray, outwardly irrorated with yellow, fol- lowed by a broad cream-yellow central fascia, beyond which the leaden-gray ground color is heavily irrorated with vertical lines of creamy-yellow scales, ex- cept in the ocellic area, where the yellow lines are horizontal and separate the four horizontal black lines. From the outer third of costa is a wedge-shaped, cream-colored patch extending to middle of cell, and between its lower end and the central fascia is.a smaller rectangular spot of the same color. This costal patch is marked on either side by a more intense yellow spot on costa, and is interrupted by one strong and one weak black costal dot; there is a similar black costal dot in central fascia. There are three transverse lines of shining leaden- metallic scales in the middle of the wing, two in the central fascia, the inner a little beyond the inner edge and extending only to middle of wing, the outer outlining this fascia, the third an equal distance beyond the second, its lower half forms the vertical inner bar of the ocellic space. There is a fourth line of the same scales from a broad white costal patch before apex to anal angle, inter- rupted twice, its lower half forms the outer vertical bar of the ocellic spot. There is a fine black terminal line, and the cilia is shining cinereous.
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Hind wing: bronzy-brown, cilia white; uudeiside brownish-fuscous, cilia gray. Underside forewing: steely-brown, costal spot repeated, cilia shining leaden, preceded by a darker and lighter line.
Twenty specimens: Verdi, Nev., June 20th to 30th; Cisco and
Colfax, Placer Co., Cal., June and July; all collected by A. H.
Vachell.
Enarmoiiia TiincouTerana sp. nuv.
Expanse 11-13 mm.
Head and thorax dark brown, nearly black ; palpi cinereous; antennse black ; abdomen dark purplish-fuscous, tuft ochreous; legs dark gray, tarsi annulated with cinereous.
Forewing: bronzy-black, a grayish shade at base and less black and more red- dish-brown at outer end. The costa is marked with four pairs of white, oblique dashes, from each pair a line of metallic-blue scales, none of them go below one- third the width of wing ; opposite the end of the apical line is a tiny blue dot on termen below apex. The ocellic spot is absent, being represented only by the inner vertical bar of lilaceous scales. The white basal dash is narrow, slightly curved outwardly, does not reach to middle of wing. In some specimens it is divided by a line of ground color; in one, the two halves are joined together in the middle, leaving forked ends below and above. Terminal line black. Cilia shining fuscous.
Hindwing : bronzy-brown, underside grayish-brown, cilia fuscous.
Underside forewing: bronzy-brown, with costal spots repeated.
Ten specimens : Wellington, Br. Col., June, T. Bryant.
This very black species can hardly be mistaken for any other. I notice a small amount of variety in the costal marks of several of the specimens, there being an extra white dash between the third and fourth pairs.
Enai'inonia saiindersana sp. uov.
Expanse 10-12.5 mm.
Head and palpi : cinereous-gray; thorax and abdomen fuscous, latter cinereous beneath ; legs cinereous, dusted with brown.
Forewing: bronzy-brown, shading to gray basally. Costa with ten rather long, oblique, wedge-shaped, whitish dashes, with blue continuations from first, second, fourth, seventh and tenth. The ocellic spot is nearly obsolete, being represented only by the vertical inner bar of lilaceous-metallic scales, narrowed, edged with black on the inner side and a few irregularly placed black dots between outer edge and termen. The dorsal mark is nearly obsolete, it consists of four faint whitish lines, with their upper ends converging and ending a little above middle of wing, the upper ends are overlaid with bluish-metallic scales. Termen line black, and a black dot in apex. Cilia shining fuscous.
Hindwing; bronzy-brown, cilia same as forewing.
Underside both wings: bronzy-gray, with costal spots repeated.
Four specimens: Toronto, Can., May 24th to June 11th; "On Lupin," H. S. Saunders.
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Enarmonia f'ana sp. uov.
Expanse 7.5-10 mm.
Head and tlioiax in some lights like the grayish-blue bloom of a ripe plum, in other lights with a purplish-metallic reflection; pnlpi yellowish-white, outer joint darker; abdomen above same as thorax, beneath cinereous; legs cinereous, dusted with brown.
Forewing: bronzy-brown, but shaded with the i)lum-blooni in the inner fourth. On the costa are eight broad, oblique white lines divided by dark brown and ex- tending to top of cell ; from the first, third, sixth and eighth the lines are contin- ued as pale metallic-blue. That from the third spot runs obliquely to and joins the inner metallic bar of the ocellic spot; that from the sixth spot goes towards but does not join the outer bar; the blue beneath the eighth is but a few scales. The ocellic area is large, filling the outer fourth of wing from anal angle to above middle; it consists of six black lines (the upper line is a row of dots, and the lower is short, with a spur angling downward), the vertical side-bars are shining lilaceous-metallic, the inner is double the width of the outer. In the middle of dorsal margin is a large white spot, in some specimens not divided, but in others divided by a line of brown, it is slightly inclined outward and reaches but a trifle above the fold, on its upper end the white is replaced by lilac-metallic scales which obscurely extend to middle of wing. The extreme edge of termen is brown, cilia shining leaden, with a white cut just below apex.
Hindwings and underside of both : bronzy-brown, shading to grayish-brown at base.
Ten specimens : Anglesea, N. J., May 15th to 30th ; Essex County Park, N. J., May 15 ; Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 3d, Miss Braun.
Close to interstinctana Clem., braeteatana Fern, and maculana Fern.
f^narinoiiia angleseana sp. nov.
Expanse 10-11 mm.
Head above and thorax bronzy-gray, with a bluish reflection, face whitish- gray; palpi cream color, apical joint a shade darker; abdomen blackish-fuscous, with a purplish reflection above, a band of cream color on each segment below ; legs whitish-cinereous, shaded with light brown.
Forewing: bronzy-brown, with a leaden shade at base. The outer three-fourths of costa is marked with nine rather broader lines; all, excepting the third, which is yellow, pure white; these white lines are unusually long, reaching to top of cell; from the first and second, which join together and separately from the fourth, seventh and ninth, are short lines of pale metallic-blue scales. The ninth outlines a large blackish-brown apical spot. In the ocellic space are five horizon- tal black lines, separated by four yellow lines, the latter are joined together in- wardly, forming a vertical yellow bar; on either side the ocellus is enclosed by a bar of lilaceous-metallic scales, the inner bar being the broader and longer. Be- tween this inner bar and middle of wing is a large shining yellow dorsal spot, composed of five or six vertical lines, reaching almost to middle of wing, the two outside lines are somewhat inclined towards each other at the top. Cilia shining, leaden-brown.
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Hind wing: dark bronzy-brown, cilia grayish-brown ; underside bronzy-brown, costal spots strongly repeated ; over both wings is an irridescent sheen or bloom, when held at certain angles.
Forty-five specimens: Anglesea, N. J., from middle of May to end of June; one specimen, labelled "Mass.," from