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2. Eupithccia agnesata, n. sp. — Expanse, 18 mm. 



Palpi short and inconspicuous ; front almost black ; bead, thorax and 

 abdomen above gray ; a darker bar across thorax in front of the middle ; 

 second segment of the abdomen darker gray ; dorsal tufts black. 



Wings, ground colour gray, with a good many black scales. 



Fore wings acutely pointed, both costal and outer margins being 

 rather straighter than usual. Colour gray, with brown shade in extra- 

 discal space and many black scales. The cross lines are black, but those 

 in the basal area are not well defined ; extrabasally there is a distinct 

 black spot on the costa ; median space blackish, the lines confused ; the 

 ground colour shows more clearly around the distinct discal spot and at 

 the base of veins 2, 3 and 4, the veins themselves being black. The 

 median space is also distinctly lighter towards the inner margin ; pale 

 bands bound the median space on both sides, and in each case these 

 bands are cut by thin black lines parallel to the intradiscal and extradiscal 

 lines respectively. 



Submarginal space dark, traversed by a white zigzag submarginal 

 line ; a conspicuous square black blotch on the costa, between the sub- 

 marginal line and the extradiscal pale space ; a black marginal line ; fringe 

 gray, cut with darker shades. 



Hind wings: dark scales along the costa and between the inner margin 

 and vein 2 ; the rest of the wing is almost clear of markings, except the 

 reflections of the dark lines on the under side of the wing ; marginal line 

 and fringe as on fore wings. Beneath gray, with very distinct black 

 markings, especially on tlie hind wings. These markings consist, on the 

 fore wing, of a straight intradiscal line, a prominent discal spot, a curved 

 extradiscal line, heavy and distinct on the costal half, and a submarginal 

 black band, broad on ihe costa, but becoming narrower towards the 

 tornus ; this line is bounded by a distinct white zigzag line ; marginal 

 line well marked ; inner margin quite clear of markings. 



Hind wings very distinctly marked with black on a gray ground. 

 There are two intradiscal lines, one median line passing through the 

 distinct discal spot, a broad extradiscal line, then a pale space, then a 

 strong waved black submarginal and a black marginal line, accompanied 

 inwardly (as is the similar line on the fore wing) by a dark marginal shade. 



This is a very distinct species, not like any other that we have in 

 British Columbia, but slightly resembling the Eupithecia edna of Hulst. 



