NORTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 168 



1872, p. 558 (Beit. i. 112) ; Wood, 2d ed. fig. 1755; Stain., Man. 2, p. 168 ; Eiito. 

 Moil. Mag. viii, p. 290; Snellen. Tidsk. xi, p. 50, pi. 1, fig. 1 (1868) ; v. Nolckcn. 

 Stett. Ento. Z. 1868, p. 89; Snellen, Vlin. Neth. Micro, i, p. 145; Frei., Lep. Sch. 

 p. 275. 1880; Biittner, Stett. Ento. Zeit. ]880, p. 393; M'oesch., Verb. Znol.-Bot. 

 Ges. Wieii, 1884, p. 309. 



lafanryeUa Constant, Ann. Soo. Ento. Fi-ance, 1865. p. 189. pi. vii, fig. 1 (Mye- 

 lois) ; leacoloma Snell., Tidsk. ix, p. 61, 1866. 



Labial palpi ligbt gray, powdered witb fuscous ; bead and autennse grayish 

 fuscous; thorax ocbreous fuscous; fore wings ocbreous fuscous or fawn color, the 

 costa narrowly fuscous except basally, followed by a broad white stripe reaching 

 costa basally, and extending from base to apex; behind this along outer margin 

 and along inner margin the wing is slightly darker ; lines obsolete, discal spots 

 faint. Hind wings light fuscous to fuscous. 



Massachusetts, Texas. 



Biittner says the larva in Germany lives in September on A)i- 

 tlujUis vuliieraria, passing the winter in a spherical cocoon made at the 

 surface of the ground, deserting this tlie next spring, then spinning 

 another longish oval cocoon and becoming a |)upa to emerge in three 

 weeks in June as an imago. 



4. E. albocostalis Hulst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xiii, 164, 1886 (Ephestia).— 

 Expands 28 mm. Palpi cinereous, indistinctly annulated with whitish ; liead 

 and collar snowy cinereous ; thorax and abdomen dark fuscous cinereous; fore 

 wings with a snow-white costal band, occupying the space to the subcostal vein, 

 and reaching outwardly to a point nearly at apex, fading on the outer half along 

 costa into mouse color; the rest of the wing dark fuscous, basally and medially, 

 fading behind and outwardly into fuscous mouse color, a very fine submedian 

 white dash present on middle portion ; fringe blue-gray, finely interlined with 

 white; hind wings fuscous outwardly, fading to light fuscous basally; fringe 

 light fuscous; beneath dark fuscous, with a lengthened ante-median white spot, 

 crowned with ocbreous subcostally ; hind wings. as above. 



California. 



I sent the type to Mr. Ragonot, who returned it, marked Episehiiui 

 bolsduvalieUa. It may be a variety of that species, but it is not the 

 typical form. It differs from what, by Dr. Staudinger and Mr. 

 Ragonot, has been sent me as the typical bolsduvalieUa as follows : 

 It is always very much larger and different entirely in color on 

 head, thorax, wings and abdomen. The costal stripe does not reach 

 beyond the middle field, and there is a grayish stripe on vein 1 of 

 fore wings. 



I am aware the European insect varies in color and closely ap- 

 proaches this, but I am not aware that it is ever so dark, and it is 

 never so large. 



5. E. •^iibcostella Rag., Diag. N. A. Phyc p. 10, 1889.— Expands 26 mm. 

 Fore wings narrow, pale gray, washed with brownish to the secoTid line, darker 



