88 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



tends to fold, but above fold the spot gradually shades into the ground color, dis- 

 appearing above middle ; there are three or four parallel brown lines in this spot, 

 usually extending to fold, but in some specimens one or more are merely dorsal 

 dots. Before and behind this white spot the ground color is darker brown. The 

 costa between middle and apex is marked with five long, clear, brown lines of 

 about equal length ; in the most intensely-marked specimens there is a grayish- 

 brown dot between some of the lines. There is a subapical brown line to upper 

 third of termen, with one or two brown dots below it in middle of terraen. The 

 ocellic spot is large, shining gray, with a horizontal brown dash above and an 

 inwardly curved brown dash below, the latter in weakly marked specimens con- 

 sists of an inner and outer dot ; the outer and upper sides of the ocellus are de- 

 fined by a curved brown line, which very faintly connects with the middle one 

 of the group of costal lines. Cilia gray, basally speckled with pale ochreous, and 

 at tornus outwardly tipped with white. 



Hind wing: light grayish-brown, darker at apex, cilia grayish-white; under- 

 side paler. 



Underside forewing : light smoky brown, slightly paler along costa and grayish 

 white below fold. 



Ten specimens : Caldwell, N. J., May 17th ; Plummer's Island, 

 Md., May 11th, A. Busck ; Philadelphia, Pa., June 4th, F. Haim- 

 bach ; Cincinnati, Ohio, May 18-21, Miss Brown ; Kerrville, Texas, 

 Dr. Barnes ; Iowa, C. P. Gillette. 



Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mas. 



Eucosma womoiiaiia sp. nov. 



Expanse 15-16 mm. 



Head and palpi ochreous-gray, latter shaded with fuscous outside, apical joint 

 black; antenna fuscous-gray; thorax gray, patagia brown at base, ochreous-gray 

 outwardly; abdomen cinereous; legs light ochreous, dusted and banded with 

 blackish-brown. 



Forewing: blackish-brown, strigulated with whitish-gray on the inner half of 

 the basal area, with an indistinct dorsal spot, and with costal streaks of the same 

 shade. The outer half of basal area is the blackish part of wing, on dorsal mar- 

 gin it extends beyond inner third ; the outer edge is indented, inwardly half-way 

 between dorsum and fold, above the fold it is obliquely inward to inner fourth of 

 costa. The dorsal spot in width is less than one-sixth length of wing, it ex- 

 tends to fold, and its inner edge sends an oblique line to inner costal spot. From 

 the outer fourth of costa to apex are five pairs of costal spots, the three inner 

 pairs are subdivided ; the second pair send long oblique lines into the inner 

 ocellic bar; the third pair sends lines beneath the fourth pair and curve down- 

 ward to a leaden spot on margin, above middle; the fifth, or subapical pair, point 

 toward the same spot. On the costa these marks are yellowish-white, becoming 

 grayish-white below, with a few grayish-metallic scales. The ocellic spot is well 

 within the termen, it contains three horizontal black lines, and a black dot be- 

 low, a broad inner bar, an outer spot above and a dot below of leaden-metallic, 

 edged with whitish. The subterminal line is broad, blackish-brown, finely dotted 

 with yellowish-white, with a white dash below apex, which curves inward and 

 with the outer half of the subapical costal spot, encloses a small round spot of 

 ground color. Cilia shining gray, tipped with yellowish. 



