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Described from three specimens bred from oak, May 19, by- 

 Miss Murtfeldt, in Missouri. 



From Fh. spirecBfoliana^ which Dr. Clemens bred from larvas- 

 found feeding on the leaves of Spircea opulifolia^ this oak-feeding 

 species differs in the oblique central fascia extending to form a 

 sharp angle towards the apex of wing, in the angulated portion, 

 containing two black streaks, and in this fascia extending, as a 

 faint band, to the inner margin and beneath the ocellated patch. 



Ph. burgessiana Zell., which may not be distinct from pulchel- 

 lana Clem., and Ph. laciniana Zell., which may not be distinct 

 from dubiana Clfem., are closelly allied to innrtfeldtiana, but the 

 basal patch is darker than in those species, thus resembling 

 spire (zfoliana. 



Phoxopteris cornifoliana, n. sp. — c?. Expanse 10 mm. Basal half 

 of primaries steel-blue, changing to reddish-brown towards the inner bor- 

 der; apical half ferruginous with steel-blue and white shadings. Head 

 closely scaled, ferruginous, clypeus whitish; antennae piceous except 

 towards base; palpi short, not extending beyond head, closely scaled, 

 whitish. Thorax above ferruginous: basal halt" of /ir/w«;'/e5 steel-blue, 

 becoming whitish on the middle of the inner margin, a large basal patch 

 behind the median vein reddish-brown, in one specimen this patch extend- 

 ing on the disc to form a union with the ferruginous apical half of the 

 wing so as to cut oft" a large subtriangular pale patch on the middle of the 

 inner margin ; apical half of wing ferruginous, pale along costa and within 

 the ocellated patch, which is represented by a steel-blue shade on the ante- 

 rior border of which there are two parallel dark lines and which is edged 

 terminally with white ; costa streaked with white and reddish-brown, from 

 near the middle of costa a steel-blue streak extending to just beneath the 

 apex, where it is met by a more delicate streak extending nearly per- 

 pendicularly from the costa; fringes grayish-ferruginous, preceded by a 

 fuscous line in the excavation : secondaries fuscous, with the basal half 

 whitish; fringes white, becoming fuscous toward apex: wider surface oi 

 primaries fuscous, with some whitish costal streaks; secondaries white, 

 with fuscous margins and apex: legs silvery, tibiae and tarsi with fuscous 

 shadings. Abdomen fuscous, silvery-white beneath. 



Described from two specimens bred from larvae on Cornus pani- 

 culata, April 7, 1878, at Manhattan, Kans. 



Differs from Ph. mmicana Wlsm, in the increase of the reddish- 

 brown color at the expense of the white, the ocellated patch being 

 represented only by the steel-blue spot edged posteriorly with a 

 white line ; and in the white base of the secondaries. Yet, as 

 Walsingham described only the c?, it is possible that this is the 

 other sex of his species. 



