April, 'lO] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 157 



Eupithecias that appear to be undescribed. 



BY RICHARD F. PEARSALL, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Eupithecia dolorosata n. sp. 



Expanse 16 mm. In form and color resembling coagulata Guen., but 

 lacking the roseate blush of that species. Palpi moderate, stout, dark 

 brown with extreme tip, white. Vertex white. Front pale gray, with 

 a dusky line between antennae, which are ashen, ringed with black at 

 joints and, bifasciculate, the fascicles of hair slender and short, not 

 bushy as in miserulata Grote. Thorax darkened by a mixture of 

 black scales. A large white scutellae spot and a white dorsal line along 

 anterior segments of abdomen which is uniformly gray above, a narrow 

 black line on either side nearly to tip, beneath soiled white. Ground 

 color of all wings, ashen, sprinkled with black atoms, densely along costa 

 of primaries, where they form six nearly equidistant black clusters, the 

 beginning of cross lines which are hardly traceable beyond centre. Be- 

 tween spots two and three from base pale twin lines, separated by a 

 fine gray line, cross costa above the small faint discal dot, running di- 

 rectly toward it, then turn sharply outward curving around cell, fading 

 out in crossing, with a basal trend but in a direct line to inner margin 

 half way out. From this line the fifth or extra discal is a little more 

 widely separated at costa, but follows the same course, gradually nar- 

 rowing the space between them toward inner margin. These two 

 lines are more distinct than any others, markedly so near costa and 

 the ground color between them is paler. Beyond extra discal the 

 usual geminate pale lines parallel it, but are fine and faint. Subtermin- 

 al space very narrow, the white line barely traceable close to mar- 

 gin and ending in a pale dot below vein two at anal angle. Marginal 

 line black broken at veins. Fringe slightly paler than ground color, 

 silken darker in spots opposite veins. The secondaries show only faint 

 traces of intra and extra discal cross lines, with pale space between 

 as in primaries. The geminate pale line is near to outer margin, runs 

 parallel to it, with a strong curve toward base just before it reaches 

 inner margin. Outer margin flattened between veins three and seven. 

 Marginal black line heavy, unbroken. Fringe as in primaries. Discal 

 dots very small and faint. Beneath, paler than above, the entra and 

 extra discal lines faintly reproduced on primaries. In secondaries they 

 are more distinct, the intra discal making a regular basal curve from 

 inner margin to discal dot, thence at right angles, straight to costa at 

 centre, the extra discal and faint line outside it, indicated by spots on 

 veins. Between these the geminate pale lines show plainly ; all paral- 

 lel to outer margin. Marginal lines distinct black, broken narrowly at 

 veins. Fringes as above. Discal dots small jet black, linear on pri- 

 maries, round on secondaries. Body and legs soiled white, the fore 

 legs heavily washed with black, all tarsi ringed with yellowish white. 



