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Family TORTRICID,^. 

 Peronia hypericana, new species. 



Head, palpi, and thorax pale lavender gray; prominent thoracic tuft, 

 lower half gray, upper half red brown. Abdomen yellow gray, legs yel- 

 low gray, shaded with black outwardly. Fore wings with ground-color 

 lavender gray, the basal half much paler than rest of wing, the two por- 

 tions being sharply defined by an oblique line, crossing from a point on 

 costa, one-third of wing from base, to a point on dorsal edge two-thirds 

 of wing from base; basal half shaded with a few white or pale gray 

 scales; about one-third of width of wing from dorsal edge, and midway 

 between base and transverse oblique line, there is a dark red-brown 

 patch about 2 mm. long by O.iili mm. wide, straight on lower side, some- 

 what curved above, shaded with yellowish below; outer portion of wing 

 much shaded with lilac, most pronounced near costa and transverse line, 

 the latter having also a yellowish shading exteriorly, for two-thirds width 

 of wing from dorsal edge; a row of small dots of black, raised scales 

 along transverse oblique line, and a number of similar dots in or beyond 

 an irregular curved line, from costa at outer one-third to tornus; cilia 

 yellow gray. Hind wings and cilia yellow gray, similar to abdomen; 

 lowersideof wings yellow gray, with indistinct dots darker than ground- 

 color, especially near costal portion of fore wings and posterior portion 

 of hind wings. There is considerable variation in the coloring of this 

 insect, particularly in the amount of shading of lilac and yellow scales 

 and the situation of the black dots on raised scales. 



Alar expanse, 16 to 17 mm. 



Described from three specimens bred by the writer on Hy- 

 per i cum prolificum. 



Larvas taken May 30, 1909. Imagos emerged June 13 to 

 22, 1909. 



Habitat: Great Falls, Virginia. 



Type: No. 12852, U. S. National Museum. 



Family (ECOPHORIM. 



Agonopterys hyperella, new species. 



Palpi pale yellowish, somewhat darker exteriorly, with a few black 

 scales, black annulation just before tip. Head pale yellowish in front, 

 top dark gray. Thorax variable, dark yellow-gray to dark lavender-gray. 

 Abdomen gray, more yellowish below, with row of black dots situated 

 laterally. Front wings dark lavender-gray, with more or less brownish 

 shading, less pronounced near costa: near the base a narrow transverse 

 band of yellowish white which reaches from dorsal margin almost to 

 costa, within this band the color is about the same as the ground-color 



