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Epinotia Watchungana, sp. nov. 



Head blackish-brown on sides and face, whitish-gray on top ; palpi 

 whitish-gray, streaked with blackish-brown outside above, and speckled 

 with same colour below ; apical joint black outside, with a grayish bloom 

 within ; antenna brownish-gray ; thorax mottled whitish-gray and blackish- 

 brown : the base of patagia is dark and a dark spot before the whitish end 

 of posterior tuft, a fine dark median line ; thorax light brown, with over- 

 lapping rings of whitish scales ; legs whitish, banded and dusted with 

 bronzy-black. 



Fore wing mottled light fuscous gray and black, the latter partly of a 

 brownish tinge. The most conspicuous mark is the ocellus, which is large> 

 rounded, and occupies the lower two-thirds of the outer fourth ; it. is 

 grayish-white, vertical side bars shining, and is crossed by four or five 

 horizontal short black lines. Below the apex on costa is a V-shaped 

 whitish mark that connects with a geminate whitish dash in termen and 

 cilia below apex, below costa this mark is shining ; it encloses a rounded 

 pale brown, overlaid with fine black lines, apical spot. The costa from 

 base to apex is marked with black and whitish spots and dashes, usually 

 geminate ; from a larger one beyond the middle a black line runs beneath 

 the outer costal spots, turning down below apex and merging in a pale 

 brown streak, overlaid with fine black lines, that lies between upper edge of 

 ocellus and termen. On the middle of dorsum there is an oblique whitish 

 patch reaching above fold, but not to middle ; it is streaked with darker 

 lines. Before this is a strong black shade, which on inner side obscurely 

 connects with a circle of black scales on lower half of wing close to base. 

 The extreme dorsal edge is gray, dotted with black. A brownish streak 

 runs from outer third of costa to anal angle. Cilia at apex whitish, below 

 the geminate dashes gray finely speckled with black. 



Hind wing whitish except around apex and termen, dark gray, cilia 

 white, with a darker line near base ; under side whitish, with a few dark 

 specks along costa. Under side fore wing smoky-bro.vn, with costal spots 

 and ciliate dashes repeated. 



Expanse, 12-16 mm. 



Thirty-five specimens, nearly all from Watchung Hills, Essex Co., N. 

 J., April 21 to May 8 ; Gloucester Co., N. J., April 30, F. Haimbach ; 

 Grimsby, Ont., J- Pettit ; New Brighton, Pa., Mar. 22-April 18, F. A. 

 Merrick; Cincinnati. Ohio, April 22, Miss Braun. 



Co-type in U. S. Natl. Mus. 



