Busck Notes on Some Tortricid Genera 181 



Hemimene leopardana sp. nov. 



Labial palpi light yellow, with tip of brush and apical joint black. Face 

 orange yellow; top and sides of head mixed with black. Thorax black 

 with yellow center and patagina. Fore wings in male without fold ; termen 

 strongly sinuate and abruptly broken below apex; bright orange yellow, 

 lightest towards the base, deeper, more reddish at apical part; with bold, 

 undulating, and broken, deep-black, transverse lines ; costal edge broken 

 by ten nearly equidistant black dashes, from which the cross-lines origi 

 nate ; the dashes are intervened by light straw-yellow spaces ; from two of 

 these yellow spaces, one on the middle of the wing and one at apical third, 

 runs a short, outwardly oblique, dark blue metallic line ; on lower half of 

 termen are three deep black dots. Cilia blackish, with straw-yellow cen 

 tral line, which widens out below apex and breaks through the black base, 

 emphasizing the sinuation there by the color effect. Hind wings rich, dark 

 brown, with a series of orange spots at apex. Cilia whitish with dark tips 

 and deep black base. Underside of both wings dark brown, with strong 

 greenish iridescence and with costal and apical markings corresponding to 

 those on the upperside. 



Alar expanse: 0-10 mm. 



Habitat. Hyattsville, Md. (Busck) ; Pittsburg, Pa. (Engel). 



Type. Male. U. 8. Nat. Mus., No. 10,135. 



This exquisite little moth can not be mistaken for any of the other de 

 scribed species ; it is nearest in pattern and size to the following species, 

 plummeriana, but differs greatly in coloration. 



v Hemimene plummeriana sp. nov. 



Labial palpi whitish yellow with black tips. Head and thorax whitish, 

 profusely mixed with black scales. Fore wings in male without costal fold ; 

 termen slightly sinuate below apex ; wing sharply divided as to color in a 

 basal light greenish-yellow part and an apical dark purplish rust-brown 

 part; dividing these two parts is a nearly straight, bluish-metallic line, 

 which runs obliquely from middle of costal edge to a little before tornus. 

 Basal yellow part is boldly striated by many irregular, somewhat diffused, 

 undulating, black crosslines; on the apical part the black and yellow 

 costal marks are continued as in basal part, but between them originates 

 bluish-metallic lines, one of which, together with a thin black line, runs 

 in undulating course outwards and then abruptly downwards and inwards 

 to tornus ; another runs from apical third of costa to termen below apex 

 Just before apex is a deep black, round dot, similar to three dots in a row. 

 along lower end of termen. Hind wings dark purplish-brown, with costal 

 edge whitish, and with a marginal line of golden yellow in the apical part 

 of the wing. ' Both wings on the underside light fuscous, with strong 

 greenish-metallic reflections and with all the edge-markings of the upper- 

 side plainly indicated, even the terminal black dots. Abdomen dark fus 

 cous above, silvery below. Legs silvery, barred and annulated with black. 



Alar expanse : 10 mm. 



Habitat. Plummer's Island, Md. (in the Potomac River above Washing 

 ton City) (Busck). 



